education and training
- B.S., Oregon State University
- Ph.D., University of Kansas
Roubik, David
Fellowship Advisor
Staff of Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Tropical bees and beekeeping, ecology, systematics and behavior of bees, pollination systems; palynology; ecology and entomology.
Background And Education
awards and honors
- Smithsonian Scholarly Studies Award, conferred by Smithsonian Scholarly Studies Awards, 2020
Publications
selected publications
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article
- Honey quality parameters, chemical composition and antimicrobial activity in twelve Ecuadorian stingless bees (Apidae: Apinae: Meliponini) tested against multiresistant human pathogens 2021
- Mutualism within a parasitism within a mutualism: the bees and coccids that inhabit Cecropia ant‐plants 2021
- Farmer influence on shade tree diversity in rustic plots ofCoffea canephorain Panama coffee-agroforestry 2020
- The importance of insects on land and in water: a tropical view 2020
- Changing of the guard: mixed specialization and flexibility in nest defense (Tetragonisca angustula) 2019
- Egg and Mature Larva of a Species of Plebeia with a Preliminary Overview of the Mature Larvae of the Meliponini Relative to Those of Other Corbiculate Taxa (Apoidea: Apidae) 2019
- Flower use by late nineteenth-century orchid bees (Eufriesea surinamensis, Hymenoptera, Apidae) nesting in the Catedral Basílica Santa María la Antigua de Panamá 2019
- Geometric morphometrics of wing venation to differentiates new species of Scaura Schwarz populations (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini) 2019
- Immature Stages of Selected Meliponine Bees (Apoidea: Apidae) 2019
- Population Traits and a Female Perspective for Aglae and Exaerete, Tropical Bee Parasites (Hymenoptera, Apinae: Euglossini) 2019
- A Preliminary Checklist of the Orchid Bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Euglossini) of Ecuador 2018
- Colony-level non-associative plasticity of alarm responses in the stingless honey bee, Tetragonisca angustula 2018
- The economic and cultural values of stingless bees (Hymenoptera: Meliponini) among ethnic groups of tropical America 2018
- An embellishment that became a mutualism: Inquiries on male bee tibial bouquets and fragrance-producing orchids in Panama and oceanic islands (Apidae: Apinae, Euglossini; Orchidaceae: Epidendroideae) 2017
- Coupling of pollination services and coffee suitability under climate change 2017
- Have native Hymenoptera or Africanized bees become aggressive foragers due to resource competition? 2017
- More than protein? Bee–flower interactions and effects of disturbance regimes revealed by rare pollen in bee nests 2016
- Orchid bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Euglossini) of Cusuco National Park, State of Cortés, Honduras 2016
- Arthropod Distribution in a Tropical Rainforest: Tackling a Four Dimensional Puzzle 2015
- Evidence-based conservation: reply to Tepedino et al 2015
- Impact of Striped-Squirrel Nectar-Robbing Behaviour on Gender Fitness in Alpinia roxburghii Sweet (Zingiberaceae) 2015
- Setting the pace of life: membrane composition of flight muscle varies with metabolic rate of hovering orchid bees 2015
- Color-dependent learning in restrained Africanized honey bees 2014
- Transgenic soybean pollen (Glycine max L.) in honey from the Yucatán peninsula,Mexico 2014
- A Critical View of Colony Losses in Managed Mayan Honey-Making Bees (Apidae: Meliponini) in the Heart of Zona Maya 2013
- Detecting Insect Pollinator Declines on Regional and Global Scales 2013
- A stingless bee can use visual odometry to estimate both height and distance 2012
- Arthropod Diversity in a Tropical Forest 2012
- Back to the future: Apis versus non-Apis pollination - a response to Ollerton et al. 2012
- Can extinction risk help explain plant–pollinator specificity among euglossine bee pollinated plants? 2012
- Integrated landmark and outline-based morphometric methods efficiently distinguish species of Euglossa (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Euglossini) 2012
- Pollen use by Megalopta sweat bees in relation to resource availability in a tropical forest 2012
- Supplementary Materials for Arthropod Diversity in a Tropical Forest 2012
- The Panama microplate, island studies and relictual species of Melipona (Melikerria) (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini) 2012
- Description of an ancient social bee trapped in amber using diagnostic radioentomology 2011
- A molecular phylogeny of the stingless bee genus Melipona (Hymenoptera: Apidae) 2010
- Ecological impact on native bees by the invasive africanized honey bee. Abejas cleptoparasitas, con énfasis en las abejas hospederas colectoras de aceites (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) 2010
- Large-Range Movements of Neotropical Orchid Bees Observed via Radio Telemetry 2010
- Phylogeny, diversification patterns and historical biogeography of euglossine orchid bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae) 2010
- Trigona corvina: An ecological study based on unusual nest structure and pollen analysis 2009
- Ecological impact on native bees by the invasive Africanized honey bee 2009
- Invasive Africanized honey bee impact on native solitary bees: a pollen resource and trap nest analysis 2009
- Single mating in orchid bees (Euglossa, Apinae): implications for mate choice and social evolution 2009
- Phylogenetic analysis of the corbiculate bee tribes based on 12 nuclear protein-coding genes (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Apidae) 2008
- Adaptive functions of defensive plant phenolics and a non-linear bee response to nectar components 2007
- IBISCA-Panama, a large-scale study of arthropod beta-diversity and vertical stratification in a lowland rainforest: rationale, study sites and field protocols 2007
- Old comb for nesting site recognition by Apis dorsata? Field experiments in China 2007
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book
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chapter
- Bees, Ecological Roles Bees: Ecological Roles 2020
- Nest Structure: Stingless Bees 2020
- 100 Species of Meliponines (Apidae: Meliponini) in a Parcel of Western Amazonian Forest at Yasuní Biosphere Reserve, Ecuador 2018
- A pollen atlas of cultivated plants 2018
- Applied pollination and selected studies 2018
- Evaluating pollinators 2018
- Lessons learned over the last 20 years 2018
- Nesting ecology of stingless bees in Africa 2018
- Pot-Pollen as a Discipline: What Does It Include? 2018
- Stingless bee colonies and pollination 2018
- The Stingless honey bees (Apidae, Apinae: Meliponini) in Panama and Pollination ecology from pollen analysis 2018
- The Value of Plants for the Mayan Stingless Honey Bee Melipona beecheii (Apidae: Meliponini): A Pollen-Based Study in the Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico 2018
- Developing pollination management plans across agricultural landscapes: quo vadis, sustainable crop pollination? 2016
- Bee–Plant Interactions: Competition and Phenology of Flowers Visited by Bees 2015
- An agroecosystem approach to protecting pollinators from pesticides 2014
- Orchids of neotropical pollinators since Darwin's time 2014
- How to be a bee-botanist using pollen spectra 2013
- Melipona bees in the scientific world :Western cultural views 2013
- Stingless bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Meliponini) of French Guiana 2013
- Why do they keep changing the names of our stingless bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae; Meliponini)? A little history and guide to taxonomy 2013
- Ecology and social organisation of bees 2012
- Small bees have a big job - holding up biome biodiversity 2009
- Descripción sensorial de mieles de abejas sin aguijón de Argentina, Australia, Brasil, Guatemala y Venezuela 2008
- Mieles tropicales en vías de extinción 2008
- Mieles tropicales en vías de extinción 2008
- Posibles mecanismos para comunicar la altura y la distancia por la abeja sin aguijón, Melipona panamica 2007
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dataset
- Euglossini Pollen 2021
editor of
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Location
- Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute Department
