Shawn A. Steffan

United States Department of Agriculture — United States

Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Life Sciences

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Research Topics

Plant and animal studies(30), Insect and Pesticide Research(20), Insect-Plant Interactions and Control(19), Isotope Analysis in Ecology(19), Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior(14)

Publications101 total

Honey Bees Reduce Pollen Viability While Foraging
Insects·2026Open Access
JoVE Video Dataset
2026
Grower-Based <em>In Vivo</em> Propagation of Entomopathogenic Nematodes
Journal of Visualized Experiments·2026
Fractionation of nitrogen isotopes in the enzymatic deamination of alanine: an insight into the quantitative evaluation of anaerobic metabolism in ecosystems
Progress in Earth and Planetary Science·2025Open Access
Carnivorous plants: unveiling trophic identity and advanced nitrogen acquisition strategies
Progress in Earth and Planetary Science·2025Open Access
Altitude sickness in pollinators: Skyward emigration holds consequences for a native bee
Ecology·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Microbes, the ‘silent third partners’ of bee–angiosperm mutualisms
Trends in Ecology & Evolution·2023· 35 cited
A sustainable grower-based method for entomopathogenic nematode production
Journal of Insect Science·2023· 7 citedOpen Access
Apex Predator Nematodes and Meso-Predator Bacteria Consume Their Basal Insect Prey through Discrete Stages of Chemical Transformations
mSystems·2022· 9 citedOpen Access
Exosymbiotic microbes within fermented pollen provisions are as important for the development of solitary bees as the pollen itself
Ecology and Evolution·2022· 28 citedOpen Access
More than just meat: Carcass decomposition shapes trophic identities in a terrestrial vertebrate
Functional Ecology·2022· 13 cited
First person – Gianna Fote
Journal of Cell Science·2022Open Access
Drones That Deliver: Pheromone-Based Mating Disruption Deployed via Uncrewed Aerial Vehicles in U.S. Cranberries
Journal of Economic Entomology·2021· 8 citedOpen Access
Chemical ecology of an apex predator life cycle
2021· 3 citedOpen Access
Data Repository Carrion.xlsx
Figshare·2021Open Access
Carcasses are more than just meat to obligate scavengers
Figshare·2021Open Access
(More than) Hitchhikers through the network: the shared microbiome of bees and flowers
Current Opinion in Insect Science·2020· 110 citedOpen Access
A new insight into isotopic fractionation associated with decarboxylation in organisms: implications for amino acid isotope approaches in biogeoscience
Progress in Earth and Planetary Science·2020· 49 citedOpen Access
Microbes make the meal: oligolectic bees require microbes within their host pollen to thrive
Ecological Entomology·2020· 44 citedOpen Access
Microbial Diversity Associated with the Pollen Stores of Captive-Bred Bumble Bee Colonies
Insects·2020· 34 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Prarthana S. Dharampal(17), Juan Zalapa(14), Yoshito Chikaraishi(11), Naohiko Ohkouchi(8), Jonathan N. Pauli(7), Diego Fajardo(6), James Polashock(6), Nicholi Vorsa(6), Brandon Schlautman(6), Cameron R. Currie(5), Vincent P. Jones(5), Yuko Takizawa(5), Yoshinori Takano(4), Hannah R. Gaines‐Day(4), David Horton(4), Bryan N. Danforth(4), Kent M. Daane(4), Luis Díaz‐García(4), Huayu Zhu(3), Rebecca Harbut(3)