Publications

Selected publications. See full list in Google Scholar 

*Undergraduate student;  †Graduate student

  • Gonzalez, V.H., Herbison, N., Herrera, A., Oyen, K. & D.R. Smith. 2025. Thermal tolerance in the cellophane bee Colletes inaequalis reflects early spring adaptation and is independent of body size and sex. Ecology and Evolution 15(8): e71983.
  • Ostwald, M.M., Chen, K., Alexander, N., Ding, L., Gonzalez, V.H., & K.C. Seltmann. 2025. Climate explains global functional trait variation in bees. Functional Ecology 39(7): 1748–1760.
  • Gonzalez, V.H., Rancher, W., Vigil, R., Garino-Heisey, I., Oyen, K., Tscheulin, T., Petanidou, T., J. Hranitz, & Barthell, J.B. 2024. Bees remain heat tolerant after acute exposure to desiccation and starvation. Journal of Experimental Biology 227(24): jeb249216.
  • Gonzalez, V.H., Herbison, N., Robles, G., Panganiban, T., Haefner, L., Tscheulin, T., Petanidou, T. & J. Hranitz. 2024. Bees display limited acclimation capacity for heat tolerance.  Biology Open 13:bio060179.
  • Ostwald, M.M., Gonzalez, V.H., Chang, C., Vitale, N., Lucia, M., & K.C. Seltmann. 2024. Toward a functional trait approach to bee ecology. Ecology and Evolution 14(10): e70465.
  • Gonzalez, V.H., Oyen, K., Ávila, O. & R. Ospina. 2022. Thermal limits of Africanized honey bees are influenced by temperature ramping rate but not by other experimental conditions. Journal of Thermal Biology 110:103369.
  • Gonzalez, V.H., Oyen, K., Aguilar, M., Herrera, A., †Martin, R.D. & R. Ospina. 2022. High thermal tolerance in high-elevation species and laboratory-reared colonies of tropical bumble bees. Ecology and Evolution 12:e9560.
  • Gonzalez, V.H., Oyen, K., Vitale, N. & R. Ospina. 2022. Neotropical stingless bees display a strong response in cold tolerance with changes in elevation. Conservation Physiology 10:coac073.
  • Gonzalez, V.H., Hranitz, J.M., *McGonigle, M.B., *Manweiler, R.E., Smith, D.R. & J.F. Barthell. 2022. Acute exposure to sublethal doses of neonicotinoid insecticides increases heat tolerance in honey bees. PLoS ONE 17(2):e0240950.
  • Gonzalez, V.H., †Cobos, M., †Jaramillo, J., & R. Ospina. 2021. Climate change will reduce the potential distribution ranges of Colombia’s most valuable pollinators. Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation 19(2): 195–206.
  • Gonzalez, V.H., Hranitz, J.M., *Percival, C.R., *Pulley, K.L., *Tapsak, S.T., Tscheulin, T., Petanidou, T. & J.F. Barthell. 2020. Thermal tolerance varies with dim-light foraging and elevation in large carpenter bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Xylocopini). Ecological Entomology 45(3):688–696.
  • Gonzalez, V.H., *Osborn, A.L., *Brown, E.R., *Pavlick, C.R., Enríquez, E., Tscheulin, T., Petanidou, T., Hranitz, J.M. & J.F. Barthell. 2020. The effect of pan trap size on the diversity of sampled bees and abundance of bycatch. Journal of Insect Conservation 24:409–420.
  • Gonzalez, V.H., Gustafson, G. & M.S. Engel. 2019. Morphological phylogeny of Megachilini and the evolution of leaf-cutter behavior in bees (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae). Journal of Melittology 85: 1–123.
  • Gonzalez, V.H. & T. Griswold. 2013. Wool carder bees of the genus Anthidium in the Western Hemisphere (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae): diversity, host plant associations, phylogeny and biogeography. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 168: 221–425.
  • Gonzalez, V.H., Griswold, T. & M.S. Engel. 2013. Obtaining a better understanding of native bees: where do we start?. Systematic Entomology 38: 645–653.
  • Gonzalez, V.H., Griswold, T., Praz, C. J. & B. Danforth. 2012. Phylogeny of the bee family Megachilidae (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) based on adult morphology. Systematic Entomology 37: 261‒286.