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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2015 - Fellow of the Ecological Society of America (ESA)
  • 1993 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

David W. Inouye is affiliated with the University of Maryland, College Park in the United States. Their research spans several areas within agricultural and biological sciences as well as environmental science, with a focus on ecology, evolution, behavior, and systematics.

The primary fields of study covered by their work include:

  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences
  • Environmental Science

Subfields of particular interest include:

  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Plant Science
  • Insect Science
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Ecological Modeling

The main topics addressed in their publications encompass:

  • Plant and animal studies
  • Insect and Pesticide Research
  • Plant Parasitism and Resistance
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior

Recent significant publications authored or co-authored by David W. Inouye include:

  • "Climate change and phenology," 2022, published in Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change

Other noteworthy papers from their research network, although not individually authored by them, reflect the broader scientific context of their work, such as:

  • "Global trends in the number and diversity of managed pollinator species," 2021, Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment
  • "Winters are changing: snow effects on Arctic and alpine tundra ecosystems," 2022, Arctic Science
  • "Towards a U.S. national program for monitoring native bees," 2020, Biological Conservation
  • "Bee phenology is predicted by climatic variation and functional traits," 2020, Ecology Letters

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Rebecca E. Irwin
  • Brian D. Inouye
  • Leif L. Richardson
  • Nora Underwood
  • James P. Strange

Their work has been published repeatedly in certain key venues, indicating sustained research contributions in those outlets. These include:

  • Journal of Pollination Ecology
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Science
  • Ecology

David W. Inouye has received professional recognition through fellowships including:

  • Fellow of the Ecological Society of America (2015)
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1993)

Best Publications

  • Techniques for Pollination Biologists

    Carol Ann Kearns;David William Inouye

  • ENDANGERED MUTUALISMS: The Conservation of Plant-Pollinator Interactions

    Carol A. Kearns;David W. Inouye;Nickolas M. Waser

  • EFFECTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON PHENOLOGY, FROST DAMAGE, AND FLORAL ABUNDANCE OF MONTANE WILDFLOWERS

    David W. Inouye;David W. Inouye

  • Intercomparison, interpretation, and assessment of spring phenology in North America estimated from remote sensing for 1982-2006

    Michael A. White;Kirsten M. de Beurs;Kamel Didan;David W. Inouye

  • Climate change is affecting altitudinal migrants and hibernating species.

    David W. Inouye;Billy Barr;Kenneth B. Armitage;Brian D. Inouye

  • The effects of phenological mismatches on demography

    Abraham J. Miller-Rushing;Toke Thomas Høye;David W. Inouye;David W. Inouye;Eric Post

  • The Terminology of Floral Larceny

    David W. Inouye

  • Shifts in flowering phenology reshape a subalpine plant community

    Paul J. CaraDonna;Amy M. Iler;Amy M. Iler;David W. Inouye;David W. Inouye

  • Pollinators, Flowering Plants, and Conservation Biology

    Carol Ann Kearns;David William Inouye

  • Phenotypic plasticity and adaptive evolution contribute to advancing flowering phenology in response to climate change

    Jill T. Anderson;David W. Inouye;David W. Inouye;Amy M. McKinney;Amy M. McKinney;Robert I. Colautti

  • Flies and flowers: taxonomic diversity of anthophiles and pollinators

    B.M.H. Larson;P.G. Kevan;D.W. Inouye

  • Animal Behavior and the Microbiome

    Vanessa O. Ezenwa;Nicole M. Gerardo;David W. Inouye;David W. Inouye;Mónica Medina

  • The ecological and evolutionary significance of frost in the context of climate change.

    D.W. Inouye

  • ARE NECTAR ROBBERS CHEATERS OR MUTUALISTS

    Joan E. Maloof;Joan E. Maloof;Joan E. Maloof;David W. Inouye;David W. Inouye

  • Resource Partitioning in Bumblebees: Experimental Studies of Foraging Behavior

    David W. Inouye

  • Spatial Pattern Analysis of Seed Banks: An Improved Method and Optimized Sampling

    Douglas W. Bigwood;David W. Inouye

  • Global agricultural productivity is threatened by increasing pollinator dependence without a parallel increase in crop diversification

    Marcelo Adrian Aizen;Sebastián Aguiar;Jacobus C. Biesmeijer;Jacobus C. Biesmeijer;Lucas Alejandro Garibaldi

  • The effect of proboscis and corolla tube lengths on patterns and rates of flower visitation by bumblebees.

    David W. Inouye;David W. Inouye

  • How well do first flowering dates measure plant responses to climate change? The effects of population size and sampling frequency

    Abraham J. Miller-Rushing;Abraham J. Miller-Rushing;David W. Inouye;David W. Inouye;Richard B. Primack

  • Forecasting phenology: from species variability to community patterns.

    Jeffrey M. Diez;Inés Ibáñez;Abraham J. Miller-Rushing;Susan J. Mazer

  • Non-Bee Insects as Visitors and Pollinators of Crops: Biology, Ecology and Management

    R Rader;S A Cunningham;B G Howlett;D W Inouye;D W Inouye

Frequent Co-Authors

Rebecca E. Irwin
Rebecca E. Irwin North Carolina State University
Brian D. Inouye
Brian D. Inouye Florida State University
James D. Thomson
James D. Thomson University of Toronto
Abraham J. Miller-Rushing
Abraham J. Miller-Rushing National Park Service
Graham H. Pyke
Graham H. Pyke Macquarie University
Nickolas M. Waser
Nickolas M. Waser University of California, Riverside
Jill T. Anderson
Jill T. Anderson University of Georgia
Richard B. Primack
Richard B. Primack Boston University
John Harte
John Harte University of California, Berkeley
Michael D. Dettinger
Michael D. Dettinger Scripps Institution of Oceanography

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