Peer reviewed
2024
Mueller, T. G., N. Baert, P. A. Muñiz, D. E. Sossa, B. N. Danforth and S. H. McArt. 2024. Pesticide risk during commercial apple pollination is greater for honeybees than other managed and wild bees. In press at Journal of Applied Ecology.
Strang, C., S. Rondeau, N. Baert, S. H. McArt, N. Raine and F. Muth. 2024. Field agrochemical exposure impacts locomotor activity in wild bumblebees. In press at Ecology.
Graham, K. K., S. H. McArt and R. Isaacs. 2024. High pesticide exposure and risk to bees in pollinator plantings adjacent to conventionally managed blueberry fields. Science of the Total Environment 922:171248. link
2023
Ng, W. H., C. R. Myers, S. H. McArt and S. P. Ellner. 2023. tdsa: An R package for time-dependent sensitivity analysis. Methods in Ecology & Evolution 14:2758-2765. link
Bischoff, K., N. Baert, and S. H. McArt. 2023. Pesticide contamination of beeswax from 72 managed honeybee colonies in New York State. Journal of Veterinary Diagnostic Investigation 35:617-624. link
Ng, W. H., C. R. Myers, S. H. McArt and S. P. Ellner. 2023. A time for every purpose: using time-dependent sensitivity analysis to help understand and manage dynamic ecological systems. The American Naturalist. link
Miller, O., C. Hale, L. Richardson, D. Sossa, A. Iverson, S. H. McArt, K. Poveda and H. Grab. Commercial bumble bee colonies function as ecological traps for wild bumble bee queens. Journal of Applied Ecology 60:592–600. link
Ng, W. H., C. R. Myers, S. H. McArt and S. P. Ellner. 2023. Predicting and controlling spillover in multi-species disease transmission networks: Steady-state analysis. The American Naturalist 201:880-894. link
Urban-Mead, K. R., P. Muñiz, M. Van Dyke, A. D. Young, B. N. Danforth and S. H. McArt. 2023. Early spring orchard pollinators spill over from resource-rich adjacent forest patches. Journal of Applied Ecology 60:553-564. link
Siviter, H., G. Pardee, N. Baert, S. H. McArt, S. Jha and F. Muth. 2023. Wild bees are exposed to low levels of pesticides in urban grasslands and community gardens. Science of the Total Environment 858:159839. link
2022
Urban-Mead, K. R., E. Walter, S. H. McArt and B. N. Danforth. 2022. Nearly half of spring-flying male Andrena bees consume pollen, but less than female conspecifics. Apidologie 53:49. link
Rondeau, S., N. Baert, S. H. McArt and N. E. Raine. 2022. Quantifying exposure of bumblebee (Bombus spp.) queens to pesticide residues when hibernating in agricultural soils. Environmental Pollution 309:119722. link
Graham, K. K., M. O. Milbrath, Y. Zhang, N. Baert, S. H. McArt and R. Isaacs. 2022. Pesticide risk to managed bees during blueberry pollination is primarily driven by off-farm exposures. Scientific Reports 12:7189. link
Ng, W. H., S. H. McArt, C. R. Myers and S. P. Ellner. 2022. Pathogen transport amplifies or dilutes disease transmission depending on the host dose-response relationship. Ecology Letters 25:453-465. link
2021
Graham, K. K., M. O. Milbrath, Y. Zhang, A. Soehnlen, N. Baert, S. H. McArt and R. Isaacs. 2021. Identities, concentrations, and sources of pesticide exposure in pollen collected by managed bees during crop pollination. Scientific Reports 11:16857. link
Davis, A. E., K. R. Deutsch, A. T. Gonzales, M. J. Mata Loya, L. V. Cody, E. Harte, D. Sossa, P. A. Muñiz, W. H. Ng and S. H. McArt. 2021. Eristalis flower flies can be mechanical vectors of the common trypanosome bee parasite, Crithidia bombi. Scientific Reports 11:15852. link
Newhouse, A. E., A. E. Allwine, A. D. Oakes, S. H. McArt and W. A. Powell. 2021. Bumble bee (Bombus impatiens) survival, pollen usage, and reproduction are not affected by oxalate oxidase at realistic concentrations in American chestnut (Castanea dentata) pollen. Transgenic Research 30:751-764. link
Chen, J., J. Webb, K. Shariati, S. Guo, J. K. Montclare, S. H. McArt and M. Ma. 2021. Pollen-inspired enzymatic microparticles to reduce organophosphate toxicity in managed pollinators. Nature Food 2:339-347. link
Figueroa, L. L., S. M. Compton, H. Grab and S. H. McArt. 2021. Functional traits linked to pathogen prevalence in wild bee communities. Scientific Reports 11:7529. link
McArt, S. H. 2021. Parasite transmission between hives and spillover to non-Apis pollinators. In “Honey Bee Medicine for the Veterinary Practitioner,” Eds. T. R. Kane and C. M. Faux, Wiley Blackwell Press. link
Urban-Mead, K. R., P. A. Muñiz, J. Gillung, A. Espinoza, R. Fordyce, M. Van Dyke, S. H. McArt and B. N. Danforth. Bees in the trees: Diverse spring fauna in temperate forest edge canopies. Forest Ecology & Management 482:118903. link
Adler, L. S., R.E. Irwin, S. H. McArt and R. L. Vannette. 2021. Floral traits affecting the transmission of beneficial and pathogenic pollinator-associated microbes. Current Opinion in Insect Science 44:1-7. link
Figueroa, L. L., C. Grincavitch and S. H. McArt. 2021. Crithidia bombi can infect two solitary bee species while host survivorship depends on diet. Parasitology 148:435-442.link
2020
Pinilla-Gallego, M. S., E. E. Williams, A. E. Davis, J. L. Fitzgerald, S. H. McArt and R. E. Irwin. 2020. Within-colony transmission of microsporidian and trypanosomatid parasites in honey bee and bumble bee colonies. Environmental Entomology 49:1393-1401. link
Graystock, P., W. H. Ng, K. Parks, A. D. Tripodi, P. A. Muñiz, A. A. Fersch, C. R. Myers, Q. S. McFrederick and S. H. McArt. 2020. Dominant bee species and floral abundance drive parasite temporal dynamics in plant-pollinator communities. Nature Ecology & Evolution 4:1358-1367. link commentary
Urbanowicz, C. M., P. A. Muñiz and S. H. McArt. 2020. Honey bees and wild pollinators differ in their preference for and use of introduced floral resources. Ecology & Evolution 10:6741-6751. link
Figueroa, L. L., H. Grab, W. H. Ng, C. R. Myers, P. Graystock, Q. S. McFrederick and S. H. McArt. 2020. Landscape simplification shapes pathogen prevalence in plant-pollinator networks. Ecology Letters 23:1212-1222. link
Brochu, K. K., M. T. van Dyke, N. J. Milano, J. D. Petersen, S. H. McArt, B. A. Nault, A. Kessler and B. N. Danforth. 2020. Pollen defenses negatively impact foraging and fitness in a generalist bee (Bombus impatiens: Apidae). Scientific Reports 10:3112. link
2019
Iverson, A. L., C. M. Hale, L. I. Richardson, O. J. Miller and S. H. McArt. 2019. Synergistic effects of three sterol biosynthesis inhibiting fungicides on the toxicity of a pyrethroid and neonicotinoid insecticide to bumble bees. Apidologie 50:733-744. link
Milano, N. J., A. L. Iverson, B. A. Nault and S. H. McArt. 2019. Comparative survival and fitness of bumble bee colonies in natural, suburban, and agricultural landscapes. Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment 284:106594. pdf
Urbanowicz, C. M., N. J-B. Baert, S. Bluher, M. Ramos, K. Böröczky and S. H. McArt. 2019. Low maize pollen collection and low pesticide risk to honey bees in heterogeneous agricultural landscapes. Apidologie 50:379-390. link
Figueroa, L. L., M. Blinder, C. Grincavitch, A. Jelinek, E. Mann, L. Merva, L. Metz, A. Zhao, R. E. Irwin, S. H. McArt and L. S. Adler. 2019. Bee pathogen transmission dynamics: Deposition, persistence and acquisition on flowers. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 286: 20190603. pdf
Truitt, L. L., S. H. McArt, A. H. Vaughn and S. P. Ellner. 2019. Trait-based modeling of multi-host pathogen transmission: Plant-pollinator networks. The American Naturalist 193:149-167. link
2018
Adler, L. S., K. Michaud, S. P. Ellner, S. H. McArt, P. C. Stevenson and R. E. Irwin. 2018. Disease where you dine: Plant species and floral trait variation in pathogen transmission to bumble bees. Ecology 99: 2535-2545. pdf
Tumminello, G., T. A. Volk, S. H. McArt and M. K. Fierke. 2018. Maximizing pollinator diversity in willow biomass plantings: A comparison between willow sexes and among pedigrees. Biomass & Bioenergy 117: 124-130. pdf
2017
McArt, S. H., C. M. Urbanowicz, S. McCoshum, R. E. Irwin and L. S. Adler. 2017. Landscape predictors of pathogen prevalence and range contractions in United States bumblebees. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 284: 20172181. pdf Cover photo
McArt, S. H., A. A. Fersch, N. Milano, L. L. Truitt and K. Böröczky. 2017. High pesticide risk to honey bees despite low focal crop pollen collection during pollination of a mass blooming crop. Scientific Reports 7: 46554. link
2016
McArt, S. H., T. Miles, C. Rodriguez-Saona, A. Schilder, L. S. Adler, and M. J. Grieshop. 2016. Floral scent mimicry and vector-pathogen associations in a pseudoflower-inducing plant pathogen system. PloS ONE 11:e0165761. link
2014
McArt, S. H., H. Koch, R. E. Irwin, and L. S. Adler. 2014. Arranging the bouquet of disease: Floral traits and the transmission of plant and animal pathogens. Ecology Letters 17:624-636. pdf
Parachnowitsch, A. L., S. Cook-Patton, and S. H. McArt. 2014. Neighbours matter: Natural selection on plant size depends on the identity and diversity of the surrounding community. Evolutionary Ecology 28:1139-1153. pdf
Kaplan, I., S. H. McArt, and J. S. Thaler. 2014. Plant defenses and predation-risk differentially shape patterns of consumption, growth, and digestive efficiency in a guild of leaf-chewing insects. PLoS ONE 9:e93714. link
2013
McArt, S. H. and J. S. Thaler. 2013. Plant genotypic diversity reduces the rate of consumer resource utilization. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 280:20130639. pdf
McArt, S. H., R. Halitschke, J-P. Salminen, and J. S. Thaler. 2013. Leaf herbivory increases plant fitness via induced resistance to seed predators. Ecology 94:966-975. pdf
2012
Thaler, J. S., S. H. McArt, and I. Kaplan. 2012. Compensatory mechanisms for ameliorating the fundamental trade-off between predator avoidance and foraging. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 109:12075-12080. pdf Cover photo
McArt, S. H., S. C. Cook-Patton, and J. S. Thaler. 2012. Relationships between arthropod richness, evenness, and diversity are altered by complementarity among plant genotypes. Oecologia 168:1013-1021. pdf
2011 and earlier
Cook-Patton, S. C., S. H. McArt, A. L. Parachnowitsch, J. S. Thaler, and A. A. Agrawal. 2011. A direct comparison of the consequences of plant genotypic and species diversity on arthropod communities and ecosystem function. Ecology 92:915-923. pdf
McArt, S. H., D. E. Spalinger, W. B. Collins, E. R. Schoen, T. Stevenson, and M. Bucho. 2009. Summer dietary nitrogen availability as a potential bottom-up constraint on moose (Alces alces) in South-central Alaska. Ecology 90:1400-1411. pdf
Capps, K. A., C. B. Turner, M. T. Booth, D. L. Lombardozzi, S. H. McArt, D. Chai, and N. G. Hairston, Jr. 2009. Behavioral responses of the endemic shrimp Halocardina rubra (Malacostraca: Atyidae) to an introduced fish, Gambusia affinis (Actinopterygii: Poeciliidae) and implications for the trophic structure of Hawaiin Anchialine ponds. Pacific Science 63:27-37. pdf
McArt, S. H., D. E. Spalinger, J. M. Kennish, and W. B. Collins. 2006. A modified method for determining tannin-protein precipitation capacity using accelerated solvent extraction (ASE) and microplate gel filtration. Journal of Chemical Ecology 32:1367-1377. pdf
Extension publications
(also see monthly “Notes from the Lab” columns)
Hinsley, C. A., C. Crosier, B. DeMoras, J. Mahoney, K. R. Deutsch and S. H. McArt. 2023. New York State Beekeeper Tech Team Report: 2022 Annual Summary. Cornell University. 32 pp. link
Van Dyke, M., D. Wixted and S. H. McArt. 2023. A guide to reducing pesticide risk to bees in tree fruit orchards. 34 pp. link
Van Dyke, M., D. Wixted and S. H. McArt. 2023. A guide to reducing pesticide risk to bees in small fruit, grape, and hops in New York. 35 pp. link
Van Dyke, M., D. Wixted and S. H. McArt. 2023. A guide to reducing pesticide risk to bees in vegetable agriculture and field crops in New York. 39 pp. link
Hinsley, C. A., B. DeMoras, C. Crosier and S. H. McArt. 2022. 2022 New York State Beekeeper Tech Team Spring Colony Health Report. 6 pp. link
Grout, T. A., P. A. Koenig, J. K. Kapuvari and S. H. McArt. 2020. Neonicotinoid insecticides in New York: Economic benefits and risk to pollinators. 432 pp. link
Bruckner, S., N. Steinhauer, S. D. Aurell, D. M. Caron, J. D. Ellis, A. M. Fauvel, K. Kulhanek, S. H. McArt, E. K. Mullen, J. Rangel, R. Sagili, J. Tsuruda, J. T. Wilkes, M. E. Wilson, D. Wyns, K. Rennich, D. vanEngelsdorp and G. R. Williams. 2019. 2018-2019 Honey Bee Colony Losses in the United States: Preliminary Results. link
Hinsley, C. A., C. M. Urbanowicz, T. Grout, P. Cappy, S. H. McArt and E. K. Mullen. 2019. 2018 New York State Beekeeper Tech Team Report, 29 pp. pdf
Van Dyke, M., E. Mullen, D. Wixted and S. H. McArt. 2018. A pesticide decision-making guide to protect pollinators in landscape, ornamental, and turf management. 36 pp. pdf
Van Dyke, M., E. Mullen, D. Wixted and S. H. McArt. 2018. A pesticide decision-making guide to protect pollinators in tree fruit orchards. 31 pp. pdf
Hinsley, C. A. and S. H. McArt. 2018. 2018 New York State Varroa survey results, 1 p. pdf
Hinsley, C. A., P. Cappy, S. H. McArt and E. K. Mullen. 2018. 2018 New York State Beekeeper Tech Team Spring Honey Bee Health Report, 1 p. pdf
Wheeler, M. K., P. Cappy, S. H. McArt and E. K. Mullen. 2018. 2017 New York State Beekeeper Tech Team Report, 29 pp. pdf
Urbanowicz, C. M. and S. H. McArt. 2018. 2017 New York State Varroa survey results, 1 p. pdf
Wheeler, M. K., P. Cappy, S. H. McArt and E. K. Mullen. 2017. 2017 New York State Beekeeper Tech Team Spring Honey Bee Health Report, 1 p. pdf
Wheeler, M. K., P. Cappy, S. H. McArt and E. K. Mullen. 2017. 2016 New York State Beekeeper Tech Team Pesticide Report, 21 pp. pdf
Wheeler, M. K., P. Cappy, S. H. McArt and E. K. Mullen. 2017. 2016 New York State Beekeeper Tech Team Report, 48 pp. pdf