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Elinor M. Lichtenberg

Title: Assistant Professor

Department: Biological Sciences

College: College of Science

Curriculum Vitae

Curriculum Vitae Link

Education

  • PhD, University of California, San Diego, 2011
    Major: Biology
    Dissertation: Eavesdropping, Foraging and Dominance in Keystone Neotropical Pollinators: Stingless Bees
  • BS, University of Maryland, College Park, 2003
    Major: Biology
    Specialization: Behavior, Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics

Current Scheduled Teaching

BIOL 4035.001Behavioral EcologyFall 2024 Syllabus
BIOL 5035.001Behavioral EcologyFall 2024 Syllabus
BIOL 6940.722Individual ResearchFall 2024
BIOL 4900.722Special ProblemsFall 2024

Previous Scheduled Teaching

BIOL 1132.003Environmental ScienceSpring 2024 Syllabus SPOT
BIOL 6940.722Individual ResearchSpring 2024
BIOL 4035.001Behavioral EcologyFall 2023 Syllabus SPOT
BIOL 5035.001Behavioral EcologyFall 2023 Syllabus SPOT
BIOL 6940.722Individual ResearchFall 2023
BIOL 5900.722Special ProblemsSummer 5W2 2023
BIOL 1132.003Environmental ScienceSpring 2023 Syllabus SPOT
BIOL 4951.722Honors College Capstone ThesisSpring 2023
BIOL 6940.722Individual ResearchSpring 2023
BIOL 5950.722Master's ThesisSpring 2023
BIOL 4005.008Contemporary Topics in BiologyFall 2022 Syllabus SPOT
BIOL 6940.722Individual ResearchFall 2022
BIOL 5005.008TOPICS IN BIOLOGYFall 2022 SPOT
BIOL 1132.003Environmental ScienceSpring 2022 Syllabus SPOT
BIOL 3996.722Honors College Mentored Research ExperienceSpring 2022
BIOL 6940.722Individual ResearchSpring 2022
BIOL 4005.008Contemporary Topics in BiologyFall 2021 Syllabus SPOT
BIOL 6940.722Individual ResearchFall 2021
BIOL 5900.722Special ProblemsFall 2021
BIOL 6900.722Special ProblemsFall 2021
BIOL 5005.008TOPICS IN BIOLOGYFall 2021 SPOT
BIOL 1132.001Environmental ScienceSpring 2021 Syllabus SPOT
BIOL 1132.002Environmental ScienceSpring 2021 Syllabus SPOT
BIOL 6940.722Individual ResearchSpring 2021
BIOL 4005.008Contemporary Topics in BiologyFall 2020 Syllabus SPOT
BIOL 5005.008TOPICS IN BIOLOGYFall 2020 Syllabus SPOT

Published Intellectual Contributions

    Book Review

  • Lichtenberg, E.M., Pearson, A.E. (2023). Pollinators & Pollination: Nature and Society. Jeff Ollerton. 2021. Pelagic Publishing, Exeter, United Kingdom. 286 pp. $32.00 paperback. ISBN: 978-1-78427-228-9. Journal of Wildlife Management. 87 e22416. https://doi.org/10.1002/jwmg.22416
  • Journal Article

  • Collins, S.M., Taylor, L.A., Wright, K.W., Lichtenberg, E.M. Local nesting resources rather than floral food alter ground-nesting bee communities in grazed habitats. Journal of Applied Ecology.
  • Lichtenberg, E.M., Heiser, J., Baum, K.A., Neff, J.L., Jha, S. Floral visitors differentially respond to local and landscape grassland features. Insect Conservation and Diversity. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.07.01.601588v1
  • Bronstein, J.L., Davidowitz, G., Lichtenberg, E.M., Irwin, R.E. The Hole Truth: Why do Bumble Bees Rob Flowers More Than Once?. Plants.
  • Cordeiro, G.D., Giannini, T.C., Consorte, P.M., Costa, A.C., Machida, W.S., Marques, B.F., Mazzei, N.D., Menezes, P.P., Resende, L.S., Shimoda, J., Sousa, F.G., Souza, R.S., Acosta, A.L., Aguiar, A.J., Almeida, E.A., Alves, D.A., Alves-dos-Santos, I., Andrade, T.O., Anjos-Silva, E.J., Barbosa, A.S., Barbosa, E.R., Bezerra, L.A., Borges, R.C., Brito, T.F., Camacho, G.P., Campbell, A.J., Castro, M.S., Coelho, B.W., Ferrari, R.R., Garófalo, C.A., González-Chaves, A.D., Keller, G.O., Lichtenberg, E.M., Martínez-Martínez, C.A., Martins, M.B., Martins, A.C., Maués, M.M., Moleiro, H.P., Mouga, D.M., Oliveira, F.F., Ramos, K.S., Ramos, R.L., Rocha-Filho, L.C., Santos, I.P., Santos, S., Santos-Júnior, J.E., Shibata, A., Silva, D.P., Teixeira, C.M., Tietz, A.L., Trinidade-Santos, M.E., Vilhena, P.S., Vivallo, F., Carvalheiro, L.G. Brazilian Bee Traits Database: addressing the Raunkiærian shortfall for Neotropical bees. Ecology.
  • Lichtenberg, E.M., Milosavljević, I., Campbell, A., Crowder, D.W. (2023). Differential effects of soil conservation practices on arthropods and crop yields. Journal of Applied Entomology. 147 (10) 931-940.
  • Dorey, J., Chesshire, P., Bolaños, A., O'Reilly, R., Bossert, S., Collins, S., Lichtenberg, E., Tucker, E.M., Smith-Pardo, A., Falcon-Brindis, A., Guevara, D., Ribeiro, B., Pedro, D.d., Fischer, E., Pickering, J., Hung, K., Parys, K., McCabe, L., Rogan, M., Minckley, R., Velazco, S., Griswold, T., Zarrillo, T., Jetz, W., Sica, Y., Orr, M., Guzman, L., Ascher, J., Hughes, A., Cobb, N. (2023). A globally synthesised and flagged bee occurrence dataset and cleaning workflow. Scientific Data. 10 747.
  • Behr, W.L., Whiting, C., Simpson, K., Lichtenberg, E.M., Baum, K., Jha, S., Fowler, N. Few effects of fire and seed additions on grassland restoration in the southern Great Plains. Other.
  • Allen-Perkins, A., Magrach, A., Dainese, M., Garibaldi, L.A., Kleijn, D., Rader, R., Reilly, J.R., Winfree, R., Lundin, O., McGrady, C.M., Brittain, C., Biddinger, D.J., Artz, D.R., Elle, E., Hoffman, G., Ellis, J.D., Daniels, J., Gibbs, J., Campbell, J.W., Brokaw, J., Wilson, J.K., Mason, K., Ward, K.L., Gundersen, K.B., Bobiwash, K., Gut, L., Rowe, L.M., Boyle, N.K., Williams, N.M., Joshi, N.K., Rothwell, N., Gillespie, R.L., Isaacs, R., Fleischer, S.J., Peterson, S.S., Rao, S., Pitts-Singer, T.L., Fijen, T., Boreux, V., Rundlof, M., Viana, B.F., Klein, A., Smith, H.G., Bommarco, R., Carvalheiro, L.G., Ricketts, T.H., Ghazoul, J., Krishnan, S., Benjamin, F.E., Loureiro, J., Castro, S., Raine, N.E., de Groot, Gerard Arjen, Horgan, F.G., Hipolito, J., Smagghe, G., Meeus, I., Eeraerts, M., Potts, S.G., Kremen, C., Garcia, D., Minarro, M., Crowder, D.W., Pisanty, G., Mandelik, Y., Vereecken, N.J., Leclercq, N., Weekers, T., Lindstrom, Sandra A. M., Stanley, D.A., Zaragoza-Trello, C., Nicholson, C.C., Scheper, J., Rad, C., Marks, Evan A. N., Mota, L., Danforth, B., Park, M., Bezerra, Antonio Diego M., Freitas, B.M., Mallinger, R.E., Oliveira da Silva, Fabiana, Willcox, B., Ramos, D.L., da Silva e Silva, Felipe D., Lazaro, A., Alomar, D., Gonzalez-Estevez, M.A., Taki, H., Cariveau, D.P., Garratt, Michael P. D., Nabaes Jodar, Diego N., Stewart, Rebecca I. A., Ariza, D., Pisman, M., Lichtenberg, E.M., Schueepp, C., Herzog, F., Entling, M.H., Dupont, Y.L., Michener, C.D., Daily, G.C., Ehrlich, P.R., Burns, Katherine L. W., Vila, M., Robson, A., Howlett, B., Blechschmidt, L., Jauker, F., Schwarzbach, F., Nesper, M., Diekoetter, T., Wolters, V., Castro, H., Gaspar, H., Nault, B.A., Badenhausser, I., Petersen, J.D., Tscharntke, T., Bretagnolle, V., Willis Chan, D. Susan, Chacoff, N., Andersson, Georg K. S., Jha, S., Colville, J.F., Veldtman, R., Coutinho, J., Bianchi, Felix J. J. A., Sutter, L., Albrecht, M., Jeanneret, P., Zou, Y., Averill, A.L., Saez, A., Sciligo, A.R., Vergara, C.H., Bloom, E.H., Oeller, E., Badano, E.I., Loeb, G.M., Grab, H., Ekroos, J., Gagic, V., Cunningham, S.A., Astrom, J., Cavigliasso, P., Trillo, A., Classen, A., Mauchline, A.L., Montero-Castano, A., Wilby, A., Woodcock, B.A., Sidhu, C.S., Steffan-Dewenter, I., Vogiatzakis, I.N., Herrera, J.M., Otieno, M., Gikungu, M.W., Cusser, S.J., Nauss, T., Nilsson, L., Knapp, J., Ortega-Marcos, J.J., Gonzalez, J.A., Osborne, J.L., Blanche, R., Shaw, R.F., Hevia, V., Stout, J., Arthur, A.D., Blochtein, B., Szentgyorgyi, H., Li, J., Mayfield, M.M., Woyciechowski, M., Nunes-Silva, P., Halinski de Oliveira, Rosana, Henry, S., Simmons, B.I., Dalsgaard, B., Hansen, K., Sritongchuay, T., O'Reilly, A.D., Chamorro Garcia, Fermin Jose, Nates Parra, Guiomar, Magalhaes Pigozo, Camila, Bartomeus, I. (2022). CropPol: A dynamic, open and global database on crop pollination. Ecology. 103 (3) e3614. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3614
  • Campbell, A.J., Lichtenberg, E.M., Carvalheiro, L.G., Menezes, C., Borges, R.C., Coelho, B.W., Freitas, M.A., Gianinni, T.C., Leão, K.L., Oliveira, F.F., Silva, T.S., Maués, M.M. (2022). High bee functional diversity buffers crop pollination services against Amazon deforestation. Other. 326 107777. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2021.107777
  • Baylis, K., Lichtenberg, E.M., Lichtenberg, E. (2021). Economics of pollination. Annual Review of Resource Economics. 13 335-354. http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev-resource-101420-110406
  • Lichtenberg, E.M., Irwin, R.E., Bronstein, J.L. (2020). Bumble bees are constant to nectar-robbing behaviour despite low switching costs. Animal Behaviour. 170 177-188. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2020.09.008
  • Lichtenberg, E.M., Richman, S.K., Irwin, R.E., Bronstein, J.L. (2020). Competition for nectar resources does not affect bee foraging tactic constancy. Ecological Entomology. 45 (4) 904-909. https://doi.org/10.1111/een.12866
  • Lichtenberg, E.M., Heiling, J.M., Bronstein, J.L., Barker, J.L. (2020). Noisy communities and signal detection: why do foragers visit rewardless flowers?. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 375 20190486. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2019.0486
  • Shared Database Upload

  • Lichtenberg, E.M., Collins, S., McKinnis, A., Linogao, J. Digitization of the Dixon Water Foundation grazing charts.

Contracts, Grants and Sponsored Research

    Fellowship

  • Lichtenberg, E., "HSI (E. Kika De La Garza) Fellowship," sponsored by USDA, Federal, Funded. (2022 - 2022).
  • Grant - Research

  • Lichtenberg, E. (Principal), Lichtenberg, E.M. (Co-Principal), Baylis, K. (Co-Principal), "Setting Priorities for Managing Pollinator Habitat," sponsored by USDA, Federal, $649999 Funded. (2024 - 2027).
  • Lichtenberg, E.M. (Principal), "Linking Ranch Management to Pollinator Conservation," sponsored by Dixon Water Foundation, Private, $102966 Funded. (2024 - 2027).
  • Lichtenberg, E. (Principal), "Checklist Development and Conservation Status Assessment of Texas Native Bees," sponsored by USFWS-TPWD, Federal, $307692 Funded. (2022 - 2026).
  • Lichtenberg, E.M. (Principal), "Assessing impacts of grazing management on pollinator conservation in rangeland," sponsored by USDA, Southern SARE, Federal, $30000 Funded. (2023 - 2025).
  • Lichtenberg, E.M. (Principal), Yuan, X. (Co-Principal), "Combining ecological data and modeling with remote sensing to identify managed pollinators toward landscape-crop pollination system evaluation," sponsored by Colleges of Science and Engineering, University of North Texas, $10000 Funded. (2024 - 2025).
  • Compson, Z.G. (Principal), Bhowmick, S. (Co-Principal), Lichtenberg, E.M. (Co-Principal), Bohenek, J. (Co-Principal), "GRAPH-N: Generating Rapid Applications for Predicting Heuristic Networks," sponsored by COS & COE, University of North Texas, $10000 Funded. (2023 - 2024).
  • Lichtenberg, E.M. (Principal), Henard, C.A. (Co-Principal), "Effects of livestock grazing strategies on rangeland ecosystem service providers," sponsored by Advanced Envrironmental Research Institute, University of North Texas, $10000 Funded. (2024 - 2024).
  • Lichtenberg, E. (Principal), Kennedy, J. (Co-Principal), "Texas Native Bee Conservation Status Assessment and Digitizing the UNT Invertebrate Collection," sponsored by USFWS-TPWD, Federal, $161537 Funded. (2022 - 2023).
  • Jha, S. (Principal), Lichtenberg, E. (Co-Principal), Baum (Co-Principal), "Multi-year Investigation of Restoration Impacts on Pollinator Communities & Plant-Pollinator Interactions," sponsored by USFWS-TPWD, Federal, $386117 Funded. (2020 - 2023).
  • Lichtenberg, E. (Principal), Burggren, W. (Co-Principal), "COS Seed Grant 2022," sponsored by UNT College of Science, University of North Texas, $10000 Funded. (2022 - 2022).
  • Lichtenberg, E. (Principal), Burggren, W. (Co-Principal), "COS Seed Grant 2021," sponsored by UNT College of Science, University of North Texas, $10000 Funded. (2021 - 2021).
  • Lichtenberg, E.M. (Principal), Kennedy, J.H. (Co-Principal), "Texas Native Bee Conservation Status Assessment and Digitizing the UNT Invertebrate Collection," sponsored by Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, ST, Funded. (2022 - 2023).
  • Jha, S. (Principal), Bates, E. (Principal), Lichtenberg, E. (Co-Principal), Baum (Co-Principal), "Multi-year Investigation of Restoration Impacts on Pollinator Communities & Plant-Pollinator Interactions," sponsored by US Fish and Wildlife Service, Federal, Funded. (2020 - 2023).
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