Univesity of Maryland: Department of Biology

University of Maryland

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DAVID W. INOUYE 

Professor, Director of CONS Program

email:Inouye@umd.edu
phone:
301.405.6946 (office)
301.405.6946 (lab)
fax:301.314.9358
office:4206 Bio-Psych
graduate programs: Biology, BEES, CONS, MEES
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RESEARCH INTERESTS

Dr. Inouye has worked with bumblebees, euglossine bees, pollinating flies, tephritid flies, hummingbirds, and wildflowers, on topics including pollination biology, flowering phenology, plant demography, and plant-animal interactions such as ant-plant mutualisms, nectar robbing, and seed predation. He has worked in Australia, Austria, Central America, and Colorado, where he has spent summer field seasons since 1971 at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory (RMBL). His long-term studies of flowering phenology and plant demography are being used now to provide insights into the effects of climate change at high altitudes.

Dr. Inouye teaches courses in ecology and conservation biology at the University of Maryland, and has also taught at the University of Colorado's Mountain Research Station, the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, and with the Organization for Tropical Studies. At the University of Maryland he directs the graduate program in Sustainable Development and Conservation Biology. He has graduate students working at RMBL, as well as Assateague Island, the Smithsonian Institution's Environmental Research Center, and in Bhutan. He is the founder and moderator for the Ecological Society of America's ECOLOG-L listserv list, edits the Technological Tools and Citation Classics columns in the Bulletin of the ESA, and has served on the Board of Trustees of RMBL.

Representative Publications

Book:

Kearns, C. A. and Inouye, D. W. 1993. Techniques for Pollination Biologists. University Press of Colorado, Niwot, CO. 583 pages. 2nd printing 1994. 3rd printing 2000.

Book chapters:

Inouye, D., and B. Barr. 2006. Consequences of abrupt climate change for hibernating animals and perennial wildflowers at high altitude in the Colorado Rocky Mountains, USA. Pages 166-168 in: Global Change in Mountain Regions (M. F. Price, ed.). Sapiens Publishing, U.K.

Inouye, D. W. 2005. Biodiversity and ecological security. Pages 203-215 in: From Resource Scarcity to Ecological Security (D. Pirages and K. Cousins, eds.). MIT Press, Cambridge.

Inouye, D. W., and F.-E. Wielgolaski. 2003. Phenology of high-altitude climates. Pages 195-214 in: Phenology: An Integrative Environmental Science (M. D. Schwartz, ed.) Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Wielgolaski, F.-E., and D. W. Inouye. 2003. Phenology of high-latitude climates. Pages 175-194 in: Phenology: An Integrative Environmental Science (M. D. Schwartz, ed.) Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Morales, M., D. W. Inouye, M. L. Leigh and G. Lowe. 2003. Considering interactions: Incorporating biotic interactions into viability assessment. Pages 267-287 in: Population Viability in Plants (C. A. Brigham and M. W. Schwartz, eds.); Ecological Studies, Volume 165. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.

Inouye, D. W. 2001. Pollinators, the role of. In: Encyclopedia of Biodiversity 4:723-730. Academic Press, San Diego

Inouye, D. W. 1988. Natural variation in plant and animal populations, and its implications for studies of recovering ecosystems. In: Rehabilitating Damaged Ecosystems (Cairns, J., ed.) pp. 39-50. CRC Press, Boca Raton.

Inouye, D. W. 1983. The ecology of nectar robbing. In: The Biology of Nectaries (Elias, T. S. and Bentley, B. L., eds.) pp. 153 173. Columbia University Press, NY.

Inouye, D. W. 1977. Species structure of bumblebee communities in North America and Europe. In: The Role of Arthropods in Forest Ecosystems (Mattson, W. J., ed.) pp. 35 40. Springer-Verlag, NY.

Papers:

Inouye, D. W. Consequences of climate change for phenology, frost damage, and floral abundance of sub-alpine wildflowers. Ecology, in press.

Inouye, D. W. Impacts of global warming on pollinators. Wings (an invited paper). In press.

Lambrecht, S., M. E. Loik, D. W. Inouye, and J. Harte. 2007. Carbon costs of reproduction under experimental warming in a subalpine meadow. New Phytologist 173: 121-134.

National Research Council of the National Academies. 2006. Status of Pollinators in North America. National Academies Press, Washington, D.C. [member of the committee that wrote the report]

Betancourt, J. L., M. D. Schwartz, D. D. Breshears, D. R. Cayan, M. D. Dettinger, D. W. Inouye, E. Post, and B. C. Reed. 2005. Implementing a USA-National Phenology Network (USA-NPN). EOS 86(51): 539-542.

Morales, M. A., G. J. Dodge, and D. W. Inouye. 2005. A phenological mid-domain effect in flowering diversity. Oecologia (published online 6 August 2004) 142(1): 83-89.

Inouye, D. W., F. Saavedra, and W. Lee-Yang. 2003. Environmental influences on the phenology and abundance of flowering by Androsace septentrionalis L. (Primulaceae). American Journal of Botany 90(6):905-910.

Saavedra, F., D. W. Inouye, M. V. Price and J. Harte. 2003. Changes in flowering and abundance of Delphinium nuttallianum (Ranunculaceae) in response to a subalpine climate warming experiment. Global Change Biology 9: 885-894.

Inouye, D. W., and C. Brewer. 2003. Who are we training in conservation biology graduate programs? A case study of the program in Sustainable Development and Conservation Biology at the University of Maryland. Conservation Biology 17(5): 1204-1208.

Wangchuk, T., M. Hare, and D.W. Inouye, 2003. A new subspecies of Golden Langur (Trachypithecus geei) from Bhutan. Folia Primatologica 74 (2) 104-108.

Inouye, D. W., M. Morales, and G. Dodge. 2002. Variation in timing and abundance of flowering by Delphinium barbeyi Huth (Ranunculaceae): the roles of snowpack, frost, and La Niña, in the context of climate change. Oecologia 130: 543-550.

Larson, B., P. G. Kevan, and D. W. Inouye. 2001. Flies and flowers. I. The taxonomic diversity of anthophilous and pollinating flies. Canadian Entomologist 133:439-465.

Inouye, D. W., W. A. Barr, K. B. Armitage, and B. D. Inouye. 2000. Climate change is affecting altitudinal migrants and hibernating species. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 97(4): 1630-1633.

Maloof, J. E., and D. W. Inouye. 2000. Are nectar robbers cheaters or mutualists? Ecology 81(10):2651-2661.

Inouye, D. W. 2000. The ecological and evolutionary significance of frost in the context of climate change. Ecology Letters 3(5):457-463.

Kearns, C. A., D. W. Inouye and N. M. Waser. 1998. Endangered mutualisms: The conservation biology of plant-pollinator interactions. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 29: 83-112.

Allen-Wardell, G. P. Bernhardt, R. Bitner, A. Burquez, S. Buchmann, J. Cane, P. A. Cox, V. Dalton, P. Feinsinger, M. Ingram, D. W. Inouye, C. E. Jones, K. Kennedy, P. Kevan, H. Koopowitz, R. Medellin, S. Medellin-Morales, G.P. Nabhan, B. Pavlik, V. Tepedino, P. Torchio, and S. Walker. 1998. The potential consequences of pollinator declines on the conservation of biodiversity and stability of food crop yields. Conservation Biology 12(1):8-17. [This was the first paper in a new series of Commissioned Papers by the Society for Conservation Biology.]

Kearns, C. A., and D. W. Inouye. 1997. Pollinators, flowering plants, and conservation biology. BioScience 47(5):297-307.

Roubik, D. W., D. Yanega, M. Aluja, S. L. Buchmann, and D. W. Inouye. 1995. On optimal nectar foraging by some tropical bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae). Apidologie 26(3):197-211.

Kearns, C. A., and D. W. Inouye. 1994. Fly pollination of Linum lewisii (Linaceae). American Journal of Botany 81(9):1091-1095.

Inouye, D. W., D. E. Gill, M. R. Dudash, and C. B. Fenster. 1994. A model and lexicon for pollen fate. American Journal of Botany 81(12):1517-1530.

Inouye, D. W., W. A. Calder and N. M. Waser. 1991. The effect of floral abundance on feeder censuses of hummingbird populations. Condor 93:279-285.

Inouye, D. W. and A. D. McGuire. 1991. Effects of snowpack on the timing and abundance of flowering in Delphinium nelsonii: implications for climate change. American Journal of Botany 78(7):997-1001.

Bigwood, D. W. and D. W. Inouye. 1988. Spatial distribution of the component species in an old field seed bank, and a comparison of sampling techniques. Ecology 69:497-507.

Inouye, D. W., and G. H. Pyke. 1988. Pollination biology in the Snowy Mts. of Australia, with comparisons with montane Colorado, U.S.A. Australian Journal of Ecology 13:191-210.

Inouye, D. W. 1988. Natural variation in plant and animal populations, and its implications for studies of recovering ecosystems. Pages 39-50 in Cairns,J., editor. Rehabilitating Damaged Ecosystems. CRCPress. Second edition 1995.

Inouye, D. W. 1986. Long-term preformation of leaves and inflorescences by a long-lived perennial monocarp, Frasera speciosa, Gentianaceae. American Journal of Botany 73:1535-1540.

Inouye, D. W. 1983. The ecology of nectar robbing. Pages 153-173 in Elias,T. S. and Bentley, B. L., editors. The Biology of Nectaries. Columbia University Press, New York.