Laura A. Burkle's research while affiliated with Montana State University and other places

... Nevertheless, because many pharmaceutical compounds persist in the environment (Kwon and Armbrust, 2006;Puckowski et al., 2016), fish are often exposed to pharmaceuticals across several life stages and over periods that exceed typical study durations. Given that an organism's developmental stage can be a major source of intraspecific trait variation (Cope et al., 2022), generalising the effects of pharmaceutical exposure from one life stage to the other may not be straightforward. In particular, sensitivity to chemicals and how animals respond to exposure could differ substantially across the exposure period and between life stages, and could compromise our accuracy to predict the impact of pharmaceutical pollution. ...

... Over the last few decades, substantial progress has been made to track the response of pollinator diversity to wildfires (e.g., Adedoja et al., 2019;Burkle et al., 2019;Carbone et al., 2019Carbone et al., , 2017Lazarina et al., 2019;Mason et al., 2021;Moretti et al., 2009;Peralta et al., 2017Peralta et al., , 2001Potts et al., 2003;Viljur et al., 2022). This work has shown that fire can affect insect pollinators in numerous ways other than via direct mortality (Brown et al., 2017). ...

... Pollination is a vital landscape service making its long-term stability a priority for socio-ecological-economic sustainability (Delphia et al., 2022). In this study the spatial and temporal analyses have helped in giving a more complete indication in the assessment of landscape services where different socioecological factors can play a crucial role. ...

... Other management activities in seminatural ecosystems -like prescribed burning, thinning, and invasive species removalcan also have positive effects on pollinators (Glenny et al. 2022a) via increased early seral stage habitat rich in floral and nesting resources, but post-management restoration projects may favor revegetating areas with grasses, which reduce erosion and outcompete invasive species but provide few benefits to pollinators. In addition, unlike agroecosystems, restoration projects in seminatural ecosystems are frequently conducted in remote areas, which impedes human interventions to ensure plant success, and natural disturbances like wildfire or drought select against the establishment of some plant species. ...

... Generally, the nicheand neutral processes are not mutually exclusive but contribute both to assembly processes (van der Plas et al. 2015;Hauffe et al., 2016), and the relative importance of these two processes in community assembly depends on the scale and other characteristics of the study system (Wang et al. 2012;Yang et al. 2014). However, despite long-term interest in patterns of niche-and neutral processes, it has yet to be established whether and how consumer community dissimilarity (i.e., beta-diversit y) depends on producer community dissimilarity (Burkle, Myers & Belote 2016;Myers & LaManna 2016;Burkle, Belote & Myers 2022). Community studies that consider multiple trophic levels may provide key insights into mechanisms of species coexistence, biodiversity maintenance, and ecosystem functions in response to global change (Thompson et al. 2015;Eisenhauer et al. 2019). ...

... Thus, for invertebrates, it will be important to know how the biota in wetlands with changing hydroperiods contribute to turnover of taxa and overall diversity of a region (Epele et al., 2022;McLean et al., 2020McLean et al., , 2022. Knowledge of how specific wetland ecotypes contribute to biodiversity patterns could lead to conservation interventions being more efficacious (Belote et al., 2021;Bowgen et al., 2022). ...

... Insect pollinators play a key role in domestic crop production and the maintenance of wild plant communities worldwide (Corbet et al. 1991;Klein et al. 2007;Hung et al. 2018). Rodger et al. (2021) estimate that the seed production of 79% of flowering plant species benefit to some degree from animal-mediated pollination. Pollination services contribute greatly to the world economy, with their contribution to global crop production valued at 235-577 billion US dollars per year (IPBES 2016). ...

... Secondly, studies could also determine whether physiological biomarkers that were already found to be affected by environmental variables are also related to some component of individual fitness (survival, reproductive performances). For instance, body size in bees, which is highly correlated to the amount of food ingested (during larval stage) and therefore to the abundance of floral resources, has been found to be positively related to female fecundity in different bee species (Bosch and Vicens, 2006;O'Neill et al., 2014;Slominski and Burkle, 2021). These relationships highlight body size as a promising biomarker for monitoring population trends. ...

... Conversely, logging promotes the colonization of disturbed areas by generalist species, and species associated with more open habitats and floral resources Heil and Burkle, 2018;Phillips et al., 2006;Sire et al., 2022;, and consequently induces shifts in the composition of arthropod communities (Wermelinger et al., 2017). Salvage logging can also disturb ecological relationships, such as species-resource relationships (Godeau et al., 2020) or functional networks between species (e.g., plant-pollinator interactions, Burkle et al., 2021), and can result in an extinction debt (i.e. a delay between the loss of a habitat and the local extinction of the species associated with that habitat; . At a landscape scale, logging increases habitat diversity (undisturbed forests, disturbed and disturbed-harvest), and promotes the gamma-diversity of arthropod communities (Phillips et al., 2006;Wermelinger et al., 2017). ...

... Meta-analysis is a widely used approach in ecology Anderson et al., 2021), which often explicitly sets out to test for and explain context dependence in ecological effects (e.g. Leal & Peixoto, 2017;Marino, Romero & Farjalla, 2018;Albertson et al., 2021). The consequences of asymmetric investigation for ecological inference have yet to be evaluated. ...