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Peter Feinsinger is affiliated with Northern Arizona University in the United States. Their research is primarily situated within the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Environmental Science, with five and three publications respectively in these areas.

The scientific work covers several subfields, including Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Insect Science, Plant Science, Ecological Modeling, and aspects of Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law.

Key topics explored by Feinsinger include:

  • Plant and animal studies
  • Insect and Pesticide Research
  • Plant Parasitism and Resistance
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Conservation, Ecology, Wildlife Education
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Plant and soil sciences

Feinsinger has contributed to journals such as BioScience and the Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America. Notable papers include:

  • "The Inquiry Cycle and Applied Inquiry Cycle: Integrated Frameworks for Field Studies in the Environmental Sciences" (2020), published in BioScience
  • "Resolution of Respect Michel Faife Cabrera (1978-2021)" (2023), published in Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America

Frequent collaborators in Feinsinger's work include Marcelo A. Aizen, Marina P. Arbetman, Natacha P. Chacoff, Vanina R. Chalcoff, and Lucas A. Garibaldi, each coauthoring at least one publication with Feinsinger.

Best Publications

  • Forest Fragmentation, Pollination, and Plant Reproduction in a Chaco Dry Forest, Argentina

    Marcelo A. Aizen;Peter Feinsinger

  • A Simple Measure of Niche Breadth

    Peter Feinsinger;E. Eugene Spears;Robert W. Poole

  • HABITAT FRAGMENTATION, NATIVE INSECT POLLINATORS, AND FERAL HONEY BEES IN ARGENTINE, "CHACO SERRANO"'

    Marcelo A. Aizen;Peter Feinsinger

  • Community Organization Among Neotropical Nectar-Feeding Birds

    Peter Feinsinger;Robert K. Colwell

  • On the calculation of sugar concentration in flower nectar.

    Alan B. Bolten;Peter Feinsinger;Herbert G. Baker;Irene Baker

  • Organization of a Tropical Guild of Nectarivorous Birds

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  • ECOLOGICAL INTERACTIONS BETWEEN PLANTS AND HUMMINGBIRDS IN A SUCCESSIONAL TROPICAL COMMUNITY

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  • Do Tropical Bird‐Pollinated Plants Exhibit Density‐Dependent Interactions? Field Experiments

    Peter Feinsinger;Harry M. Tiebout;Bruce E. Young

  • Effects of plant species on each other's pollination: Is community structure influenced?

    Peter Feinsinger

  • Floral neighborhood and pollination success in four hummingbird-pollinated cloud forest plant species.

    Peter Feinsinger;K. Greg Murray;Sharon Kinsman;William H. Busby

  • Bees Not to Be? Responses of Insect Pollinator Faunas and Flower Pollination to Habitat Fragmentation

    M. A. Aizen;P. Feinsinger

  • Why Do Hummingbird Flowers Secrete Dilute Nectar

    Alan B. Bolten;Peter Feinsinger

  • On the Relationship between Wing Disc Loading and Foraging Strategy in Hummingbirds

    Peter Feinsinger;Susan Budd Chaplin

  • Numerical and functional response of predators to a long-term decline in mammalian prey at a semi-arid Neotropical site.

    F. M. Jaksié;J. E. Jiménez;J. E. Jiménez;S. A. Castro;P. Feinsinger

  • Elevation and the Morphology, Flight Energetics, and Foraging Ecology of Tropical Hummingbirds

    Peter Feinsinger;Robert K. Colwell;John Terborgh;Susan Budd Chaplin

  • Island Ecology: Reduced Hummingbird Diversity and the Pollination Biology of Plants, Trinidad and Tobago, West Indies

    Peter Feinsinger;James A. Wolfe;Lee Ann Swarm

  • Interspecific Pollen Loss by Hummingbirds Visiting Flower Mixtures: Effects of Floral Architecture

    Carolina Murcia;Peter Feinsinger;Peter Feinsinger

  • Spatiotemporal Patterns of an Irruption and Decline of Small Mammals in Northcentral Chile

    Jaime E. Jiménez;Jaime E. Jiménez;Peter Feinsinger;Peter Feinsinger;Fabian M. Jaksić;Fabian M. Jaksić

  • PLANT-HUMMINGBIRD INTERACTIONS: EFFECTS OF ISLAND SIZE AND DEGREE OF SPECIALIZATION ON POLLINATION

    Yan B. Linhart;Peter Feinsinger

  • A long-term study on the dynamics of guild structure among predatory vertebrates at a semi-arid Neotropical site

    Fabian M. Jaksić;Peter Feinsinger;Jaime E. Jiménez

  • DISTURBANCE, POLLINATOR PREDICTABILITY, AND POLLINATION SUCCESS AMONG COSTA RICAN CLOUD FOREST PLANTS'

    Peter Feinsinger;James H. Beach;Yan B. Linhart;William H. Busby

  • Pollen carryover: experimental comparisons between morphs of Palicourea lasiorrachis (Rubiaceae), a distylous, bird-pollinated, tropical treelet.

    P. Feinsinger;W. H. Busby

Frequent Co-Authors

Yan B. Linhart
Yan B. Linhart University of Colorado Boulder
Marcelo A. Aizen
Marcelo A. Aizen National University of Comahue
Robert K. Colwell
Robert K. Colwell University of Connecticut
Fabian M. Jaksic
Fabian M. Jaksic Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Alan B. Bolten
Alan B. Bolten University of Florida
John Terborgh
John Terborgh Duke University
Lucas A. Garibaldi
Lucas A. Garibaldi National Scientific and Technical Research Council
Lawrence D. Harder
Lawrence D. Harder University of Calgary
Herbert G. Baker
Herbert G. Baker University of California, Berkeley

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