PUBLICATIONS AND MANUSCRIPTS (peer reviewed)
Bossert, S., T.J. Wood., S. Patiny, D. Michez, E.A.B. Almeida, R.L. Minckley L. Packer, J.L. Neff, R. S. Copeland, J. Straka, A. Pauly, T. Griswold, S. G. Brady, B. N. Danforth & E. A. Murray. (2021) Phylogeny, diversification, and biogeography of the mining bee family Andrenidae. Systematic Entomology 47:1-20
Minckley, R.L. & W.R. Radke (2021) Extreme species density of bees (Apiformes, Hymenoptera) in the warm deserts of North America. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 82:317-345.
Laport, R.G., R.L. Minckley & D. Pilson. (2020) Pollinator assemblage and pollen load differences on sympatric diploid and tetraploid cytotypes of the desert‐dominant Larrea tridentata. American Journal of Botany 108(2): 297-308.
Danforth, B.N., R.L. Minckley & J.L. Neff (2019) The Solitary Bees: Biology, Evolution, Conservation. Princeton University Press. ISBN: 9780691189321
Buchmann, S.L. & R.L. Minckley (2019) Large carpenter bees (Xylocopa). In, Encyclopedia of Social Insects. Starr, C.K. (ed.), Springer.
Minckley, R.L. & B.N. Danforth (2019) Sources and frequency of brood loss in solitary bees. Apidologie 50(4): 515-525.
Howell, A.D., R. Alarcon & R.L. Minckley (2017) Effects of habitat fragmentation on the nesting success of desert bees. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 110:233-243.
Lopez-Uribe, L.H., J.H. Cane, R.L. Minckley & B.N. Danforth (2016) Crop domestication facilitated rapid geographic expansion of a specialist pollinator, the squash bee. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, B. 283:20160443
LaPort, R.G., R.L. Minckley & J. Ramsey (2016) Ecological distributions, phenological isolation, and genetic structure in sympatric and parapatric populations of the Larrea tridentata polyploid complex. American Journal of Botany 103:1358-1374.
Lebuhn, G. S. Droege, E.F. Connor, B. Gemmill‐Herren, S.G. Potts, R.L. Minckley, R.P. Jean, E. Kula, D.W. Roubik, K.W. Wright, G. Frankie & F. Parker (2015) Evidence based conservation: reply to Tepedino et al. Conservation Biology 29:283-285.
Shapiro, L.H., V.J. Tepedino & R.L Minckley (2014) Bowling for bees: Optimal sample number for “bee bowl” sampling transects. Journal of Insect Conservation 18:1105-1113.
Norman, L., M. Villarreal, H.R. Pulliam, R. Minckley, L. Gass, C. Tolle, M. Coe (2014) Remote sensing analysis of riparian vegetation response to desert marsh restoration in the Mexican Highlands. Ecological Engineering 70:241-254.
Minckley, R.L. (2014) Maintenance of richness despite reduced abundance of desert bees (Hymenoptera: Apiformes) to persistent grazing. Insect Conservation & Diversity 7:263-273.
Minckley, R.L., T.H. Roulston & N.M. Williams (2013) Resource assurance predicts specialist and generalist bee activity in drought. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, B. 280:1-7.
Laport, R.G., L. Hatem, R.L. Minckley & J. Ramsey (2013) Ecological niche modeling implicates climatic adaptation, competitive exclusion, and niche conservatism among Larrea tridentata cytotypes in North American deserts. Journal of the Torrey Botanical Garden 140:349-363.
Cane, J.H., L. Kervin & R.L. Minckley (2013) Sensitivity of systematic net sampling for detecting shifting patterns in incidence and abundance in a floral guild of bees at Larrea tridentata. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 86:171-180.
Minckley, R.L. (2013) Trajectory and rate of vegetation response after cattle removal. pp 316-321. In, Gottfried, G. J., Ffolliott, P. F., Gebow, B. S., & Eskew, L. G., compilers. Merging science and management in a rapidly changing world: biodiversity and management of the Madrean Archipelago III. 2012 May 1-5, Tucson, AZ. Proceedings RMRS-P-67. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station.
Minckley, R.L., & J.S. Ascher (2013) Preliminary survey of bee (Hymenoptera: Apiformes) richness in the northwestern Chihuahuan Desert. In, Gottfried, G. J., Ffolliott, P. F., Gebow, B. S., & Eskew, L. G., compilers. Merging science and management in a rapidly changing world: biodiversity and management of the Madrean Archipelago III. 2012 May 1-5, Tucson, AZ. Proceedings RMRS-P-67. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station.
LaPort, R. G., & R.L. Minckley (2013) Cytogeography of Larrea tridentata at the Chihuahuan-Sonoran Desert ecotone. In, Gottfried, G. J., Ffolliott, P. F., Gebow, B. S., & Eskew, L. G., compilers. Merging science and management in a rapidly changing world: biodiversity and management of the Madrean Archipelago III. 2012 May 1-5, Tucson, AZ. Proceedings RMRS-P-67. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station.
LeBuhn, G., S. Droege, E.F. Connor, B. Gemmill-Herren S.G. Potts, R.L. Minckley and 8 others (2012) Detecting insect pollinator declines on regional and global scales. Conservation Biology 27:113-120.
LaPort, R. G., & R.L. Minckley (2012) Occupation of active Xylocopa virginica nests by the recently invasive Megachile sculpturalis in upstate New York. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, 85: 384-386.
LaPort, R.G., R.L. Minckley & J.R. Ramsey (2012) Phylogeny and cytogeography of the North American creosote bush (Larrea tridentata, Zygophyllaceae). Systematic Botany, 37:153-164.
Martinson, V. G., B.N. Danforth, R.L. Minckley, O. Rueppell, S. Tingiek & N. A. Moran (2011). A simple and distinctive microbiota associated with honey bees and bumble bees. Molecular Ecology, 20: 619–628.
Williams, N.M., E.E. Crone, T.H. Roulston, R.L. Minckley, L. Packer & S.G. Potts (2010) Ecological and life history traits predict bee species responses to environmental disturbances. Biological Conservation, 143:2280-2291.
Bordenstein, S.R., C. Brothers, G. Wolfe, M. Bahr, R.L. Minckley, M.E. Clark, J.J. Wernegreen, W.S. Reznikoff, & J.H. Werren (2010) Using the Wolbachia bacterial symbiont to teach inquiry-based science: A high school laboratory series. American Biology Teacher 72:478-483.
Droege, S.V. Tepedino, T. Griswold, G. LeBuhn, W. Link, R.L. Minckley, and 3 others (2010) Spatial patterns of bee captures in North American bowl trapping surveys. Insect Conservation and Diversity 3: 15-23.
Minckley, R.L. (2008) Faunal composition and species richness differences of bees (Hymenoptera: Apiformes) from two North American regions. Apidologie 39: 176-188.
Kremen, C., N.M. Williams, M.A. Aizen, B. Gemmill-Herren, G. LeBuhn, R.L. Minckley, and 13 other authors. (2007) Pollination and other ecosystem services produced by mobile organisms: A conceptual framework for the effects of land-use change. Ecology Letters 10:299-314.
Minckley, R.L., & T.H. Roulston (2006) Incidental mutualisms and pollen specialization among bees, pp. 69-98. In, Plant-Pollinator Interactions: From Specialization to Generalization. Waser, N.M. and J. Ollerton (eds.), Univ. of Chicago Press
Cane, J.H., R.L. Minckley, T.H. Roulston & L. Kervin (2006) Complex responses within a desert bee guild (Hymenoptera: Apiformes) to urban habitat fragmentation. Ecological Applications 16: 632-634.
Cane, J.H., R.L. Minckley, L. Kervin & T.H. Roulston (2005) Temporally persistent patterns of incidence and abundance in a pollinator guild at annual and decadal scales: the bees of Larrea tridentata. Biological Journal of the Linnaen Society 85: 319-329.
LeBuhn G., T. Griswold, R. Minckley, S. Droege, T. Roulston, J. Cane, F. Parker, S. Buchmann, V. Tepedino, N. Williams, C. Kremen & O. Messenger (2003) A standardized method for monitoring bee populations–the bee inventory (BI) plot. http://online.sfsu.edu/beeplot/pdfs/Bee%20Plot%202003.pdf
Minckley, R.L., J.H. Cane, L. Kervin & D. Yanega (2002) Biological impediments to measures of competition among introduced honey bees and desert bees. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 76: 306-319.
Williams, N., R.L. Minckley & F.A. Silveira (2001) Variation in bee faunas and its implications for future studies. Conservation Ecology 5: 7. [online] URL: http://www.consecol.org/vol5/iss1/art7.
Cane, J.H., R.L. Minckley & L. Kervin (2000). Sampling bees (Hymenoptera: Apiformes) for pollinator community studies: Pitfalls of pan-trapping. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 73:225-231.
Minckley, R.L., J. H. Cane & L. Kervin (2000) Origins and ecological consequences of pollen specialization among desert bees. Proceedings of the Royal Society, London B. 267: 1-7.
Minckley, R.L., J. H. Cane,L. Kervin & T. Roulston (1999) Spatial predictability and resource specialization of bees at a superabundant, widespread host plant. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 67:119-147.
Minckley, R.L. (1998) A cladistic analysis and classification of the subgenera and genera of the Large Carpenter Bees, tribe Xylocopini (Hymenoptera: Apidae). Scientific Papers of the University of Kansas Natural History Museum 9:1-47.
Minckley, R.L. & S.G. Reyes (1996) Capture of the orchid bee, Eulaema polychroma, (Friese) (Apidae: Euglossini) in Arizona, with notes on northern distributions of other Mesoamerican bees. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 62:102-104.
Minckley, R.L. & M. D. Greenfield (1995) Psychoacoustics of female phonotaxis and the evolution of male signal interactions. Ethology, Ecology & Evolution 7:235-243.
Minckley, R.L., M.D. Greenfield & M.K. Tourtellot (1995) Chorus structure in tarbush grasshoppers: inhibition, selective phonoresponse, and signal competition. Animal Behaviour 50:579-594.
Wcislo, W.T., R.L. Minckley, R.A.B. Leschen & S.G. Reyes (1994) Rates of parasitism by natural enemies of a solitary bee, Dieunomia triangulifera (Vachal) (Hymenoptera, Coleoptera and Diptera) in relation to phenologies. Sociobiology 23: 265-273.
Minckley, R.L., W.T. Wcislo, D.A. Yanega & S.L. Buchmann (1994) Behavior and phenology of a specialist bee (Dieunomia) and sunflower (Helianthus) pollen availability. Ecology 75:1406-1419.
Minckley, R.L. (1994) Comparative morphology of the mesosomal “gland” in male Large Carpenter Bees (Apidae: Xylocopini). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 53:291-308.
Alexander, B.A., R.L. Minckley, & D. Yanega (1993) Nesting biology of Glenostichtia pictifrons (F. Smith) (Hymenoptera, Sphecidae, Bembecini). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 66:108-120.
Greenfield, M.D. & R.L. Minckley (1993) Acoustic dueling in tarbush grasshoppers: settlement of territorial contests via alternation of reliable signals. Ethology 95:309-326.
Wcislo, W.T., R.L. Minckley & H.G. Spangler (1992) Pre-copulatory courtship behavior in a solitary bee, Nomia triangulifera (Hymenoptera: Halictidae). Apidologie 23: 431-442.
Minckley, R.L., S.L. Buchmann & W.T. Wcislo (1991) Bioassay evidence for a sex attractant pheromone in the large carpenter bee, Xylocopa varipuncta (Anthophoridae, Hymenoptera). Journal of Zoology 224:285-291.
Minckley, R.L. & S.L. Buchmann (1990) Territory site selection of male Xylocopa (Neoxylocopa) varipunctaPatton (Hymenoptera: Anthophoridae). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 63:329-339.
Minckley, R.L. (1989) Host records and biological notes for two Anthrax species in Arizona (Diptera: Bombyliidae). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 62:274-278.
Andersen, J.F., S.L. Buchmann, D. Weisleder, R.D. Plattner, & R.L. Minckley (1988) Identification of thoracic gland constituents from male Xylocopa spp. Latreille (Hymenoptera: Anthophoridae) from Arizona. Journal of Chemical Ecology 14:1153-1162.
Minckley, R.L. 1987. Aspects of the reproductive biology of two carpenter bees (genus Xylocopa) in southern Arizona. M.Sc. thesis, Department of Entomology, University of Arizona