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Vera Pfeiffer

USDA postdoc Animal Disease Unit
Verified email at wsu.edu
Cited by 178

Woodland and floral richness boost bumble bee density in cranberry resource pulse landscapes

V Pfeiffer, J Silbernagel, C Guédot, J Zalapa - Landscape ecology, 2019 - Springer
Context Native pollinators provide an important ecosystem service for many pollination-dependent
fruit crops, but require nesting and foraging resources in proximity to target crop plants…

Orchard management and landscape context mediate the pear floral microbiome

RN Schaeffer, VW Pfeiffer, S Basu… - Applied and …, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol
Crop-associated microbiota are a key factor affecting host health and productivity. Most
crops are grown within heterogeneous landscapes, and interactions between management …

Partitioning genetic and species diversity refines our understanding of species–genetic diversity relationships

VW Pfeiffer, BM Ford, J Housset… - Ecology and …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Disentangling the origin of species–genetic diversity correlations ( SGDC s) is a challenging
task that provides insight into the way that neutral and adaptive processes influence …

Factors affecting virus prevalence in honey bees in the Pacific-Northwest, USA

VW Pfeiffer, DW Crowder - Journal of Invertebrate Pathology, 2022 - Elsevier
Global efforts to assess honey bee health show viruses are major stressors that undermine
colony performance. Identifying factors that affect virus incidence, such as management …

Landscape patterns and diversity of meadow plants and flower-visitors in a mountain landscape

JA Jones, R Hutchinson, A Moldenke, V Pfeiffer… - Landscape …, 2019 - Springer
Context Wild flowering plants and their wild insect visitors are of great importance for
pollination. Montane meadows are biodiversity hotspots for flowering plants and pollinators, but …

Graduate students navigating social-ecological research: insights from the Long-Term Ecological Research Network

…, PFB Ferguson, E Benveniste, RA Graves, VW Pfeiffer… - Ecology and …, 2016 - JSTOR
Interdisciplinary, collaborative research capable of capturing the feedbacks between
biophysical and social systems can improve the capacity for sustainable environmental decision …

[HTML][HTML] Local influence of floral resource attributes on urban bumble bee foraging activity

VW Pfeiffer, J Zhu, K Poh, J Silbernagel - Frontiers in Sustainable …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Urbanization diminishes the extent of uncompacted, exposed soil and the coverage
of wild plant species, yet still supports diverse pollinator communities when their habitat …

Linking herbivore monitoring with interpolation to map regional risk of pest species

AL Cohen, JG Illan, VW Pfeiffer, CH Wohleb… - Journal of Pest …, 2022 - Springer
Long-term monitoring networks that generate data on pest abundance are the foundation of
integrated pest management. Monitoring can estimate local risk from pests and identify …

Influence of spatial and temporal factors on plants, pollinators and plant-pollinator interactions in montane meadows of the western Cascades Range

VW Pfeiffer - 2012 - ir.library.oregonstate.edu
Montane meadows comprise less than 5% of the landscape of the western Cascades of
Oregon, but they provide habitat for diverse species of plants and pollinators. Little is known …

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…, RM Barahona-Segovia, VW Pfeiffer… - World Bee Day 2022 …, 2024 - books.google.com
Methods: We conducted a systematic walking transect survey of bumble bees across
Madison, WI. The resulting point location data associated with more than 5,000 non-lethally …