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Sandra M. Rehan

Sandra M. Rehan

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
37
Citations
4249
World Ranking
6963
National Ranking
439

Overview

Sandra M. Rehan is affiliated with York University in Canada and works primarily in the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences as well as Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their research has a significant focus on ecology, insect science, and genetics, with additional expertise in plant science and nature and landscape conservation.

The main subjects of their work include diverse studies on plant and animal interactions, insect and pesticide research, insect and arachnid ecology and behavior, plant parasitism and resistance, ecology and vegetation dynamics, bee products chemical analysis, and animal behavior and reproduction.

The scientist has contributed to numerous research papers published across several notable venues. Frequent publication outlets for their work include Scientific Reports, Communications Biology, Ecological Entomology, Insectes Sociaux, and Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research).

Rehan has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, among them Jesse L. Huisken, Anthony C. Ayers, Farida Samad-zada, Katherine D. Chau, and Evan P. Kelemen.

Some recent publications associated with Rehan's research include:

  • "Supporting Bees in Cities: How Bees Are Influenced by Local and Landscape Features" (2021, Insects)
  • "Wild bee declines linked to plant-pollinator network changes and plant species introductions" (2020, Insect Conservation and Diversity)
  • "Estimating species relative abundances from museum records" (2021, Methods in Ecology and Evolution)
  • "Diverse Diets with Consistent Core Microbiome in Wild Bee Pollen Provisions" (2020, Insects)
  • "Sociality sculpts similar patterns of molecular evolution in two independently evolved lineages of eusocial bees" (2021, Communications Biology)

Best Publications

  • Climbing the social ladder: the molecular evolution of sociality

    Sandra M. Rehan;Amy L. Toth

  • Microbial gut diversity of Africanized and European honey bee larval instars.

    Svjetlana Vojvodic;Sandra M. Rehan;Kirk E. Anderson;Kirk E. Anderson

  • Decline of bumble bees in northeastern North America, with special focus on Bombus terricola

    Molly M. Jacobson;Erika M. Tucker;Minna E. Mathiasson;Sandra M. Rehan

  • Supporting Bees in Cities: How Bees Are Influenced by Local and Landscape Features

    Anthony C Ayers;Sandra M Rehan

  • Nesting Biology and Subsociality in Ceratina calcarata (Hymenoptera: Apidae)

    Sandra M. Rehan;Miriam H. Richards

  • Characterization of pollen and bacterial community composition in brood provisions of a small carpenter bee.

    Quinn S. McFrederick;Sandra M. Rehan

  • Morphological and molecular delineation of a new species in the Ceratina dupla species-group (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Xylocopinae) of eastern North America

    Sandra M. Rehan;Cory S. Sheffield

  • Molecular Evolution of Insect Sociality: An Eco-Evo-Devo Perspective.

    Amy L Toth;Sandra M Rehan

  • Hunting for healthy microbiomes: determining the core microbiomes of Ceratina, Megalopta, and Apis bees and how they associate with microbes in bee collected pollen

    Peter Graystock;Sandra M. Rehan;Quinn S. McFrederick

  • A Mid-Cretaceous Origin of Sociality in Xylocopine Bees with Only Two Origins of True Worker Castes Indicates Severe Barriers to Eusociality

    Sandra M. Rehan;Sandra M. Rehan;Remko Leys;Remko Leys;Michael P. Schwarz

  • Wild bee declines linked to plant‐pollinator network changes and plant species introductions

    Minna E. Mathiasson;Sandra M. Rehan

  • Bee Diversity in Naturalizing Patches of Carolinian Grasslands in Southern Ontario, Canada

    M.H. Richards;A. Rutgers-Kelly;J. Gibbs;J.L. Vickruck

  • Wild Bee Pollen Usage and Microbial Communities Co-vary Across Landscapes.

    Quinn S. McFrederick;Sandra M. Rehan

  • At the brink of eusociality: transcriptomic correlates of worker behaviour in a small carpenter bee

    Sandra M Rehan;Ali J Berens;Amy L Toth

  • The costs and benefits of sociality in a facultatively social bee

    Sandra M. Rehan;Miriam H. Richards;Mark Adams;Michael P. Schwarz

  • Maternal manipulation of pollen provisions affects worker production in a small carpenter bee

    Sarah P. Lawson;Krista N. Ciaccio;Sandra M. Rehan

  • The Genome and Methylome of a Subsocial Small Carpenter Bee, Ceratina calcarata.

    Sandra M. Rehan;Karl M. Glastad;Sarah P. Lawson;Brendan G. Hunt

  • Molecular phylogeny of the small carpenter bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Ceratinini) indicates early and rapid global dispersal

    Sandra M Rehan;Thomas William Chapman;Andrew Ian Craigie;Miriam H Richards

  • Historical changes in bumble bee body size and range shift of declining species

    Sabine S. Nooten;Sabine S. Nooten;Sandra M. Rehan;Sandra M. Rehan

  • The evolution of eusociality in allodapine bees: workers began by waiting.

    Michael P. Schwarz;Simon M. Tierney;Sandra M. Rehan;Sandra M. Rehan;Luke B. Chenoweth

  • Social polymorphism in the Australian small carpenter bee, Ceratina ( Neoceratina ) australensis

    S. M. Rehan;M. H. Richards;M. P. Schwarz

  • Behavioral and genetic mechanisms of social evolution: insights from incipiently and facultatively social bees

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Frequent Co-Authors

Michael Schwarz
Michael Schwarz Flinders University
Amy L. Toth
Amy L. Toth Iowa State University
Quinn S. McFrederick
Quinn S. McFrederick University of California, Riverside
William T. Wcislo
William T. Wcislo Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Steven J. B. Cooper
Steven J. B. Cooper University of Adelaide
Mark I. Stevens
Mark I. Stevens South Australian Museum
Anne E. Magurran
Anne E. Magurran University of St Andrews
Bryan N. Danforth
Bryan N. Danforth Cornell University
Werner Ulrich
Werner Ulrich Nicolaus Copernicus University
Mark C. Urban
Mark C. Urban University of Connecticut

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