PUBLICATIONS

1. Ohashi, K. and T. Yahara (1998) Effects of variation in flower number on pollinator visits in Cirsium purpuratum (Asteraceae). American Journal of Botany 85(2): 219-224. 
2. Ohashi, K. and T. Yahara (1999) How long to stay on, and how often to visit a flowering plant? - a model for foraging strategy when floral displays vary in size. Oikos 86(2): 386-392.
3. Ohashi, K. (1999) Flower number - relationship between floral display size and pollinator foraging behavior. In: (edited by SSSB) New Perspectives in Floral Ecology, Bun-ichi Sogo Shuppan Co., Tokyo, pp. 97-123. (in Japanese)
4. Ohashi, K. and T. Yahara (2000) Effects of flower production and pre-dispersal seed predation on reproduction in Cirsium purpuratum. Canadian Journal of Botany 78(2): 230-236.
5. Ohashi, K. and T. Yahara (2001) Behavioral responses of pollinators to variation in floral display size and their influences on the evolution of floral traits. In: (Chittka, L. and J. D. Thomson eds.) Cognitive Ecology of Pollination, Cambridge University Press, pp. 274-296.
6. Ohashi, K. and T. Yahara (2002) Visit larger displays but probe proportionally fewer flowers: counterintuitive behaviour of nectar-collecting bumble bees achieves an ideal free distribution. Functional Ecology 16(4): 492-503.
7. Ohashi, K. (2002) Consequences of floral complexity for bumble-bee-mediated geitonogamous self pollination in Salvia nipponica Miq. (Labiatae). Evolution56(12): 2414-2423.
8. Ohashi, K. and J. D. Thomson (2005) Efficient harvesting of renewing resources. Behavioral Ecology 16(3): 592-605.
9. Saleh, N ., K. Ohashi, J. D. Thomson, and L. Chittka (2006) Facultative use of repellent scent mark in foraging bumblebees: complex vs. simple flowers. Animal Behaviour 71(4): 847-854.
10. Kawaguchi, G. L., K. Ohashi, Y. Toquenaga (2006) Do bumble bees save time when choosing novel flowers by following conspecifics? Functional Ecology 20(2): 239-244.
11. Ohashi, K., J. D. Thomson, and D. D'Souza (2007) Trapline foraging by bumble bees: IV. Optimization of route geometry in the absense of competitors. Behavioral Ecology. 18(1): 1-11.
12. Makino, T. T., K. Ohashi, S. Sakai (2007) How do floral display size and the density of surrounding flowers influence the likelihood of bumble-bee revisitation to a plant? Functional Ecology 21(1): 87-95.
13. Yoshioka, Y., K. Ohashi, A. Konuma, H. Iwata, R. Ohsawa, and S. Ninomiya (2007) Ability of bumblebees to discriminate differences in the shape of artificial flowers of Primula sieboldii (Primulaceae). Annals of Botany 99(6): 1175-1182.
14. Kawaguchi, L. G., K. Ohashi, and Y. Toquenaga (2007) Contrasting responses of bumble bees to feeding conspecifics on their familiar and unfamiliar flowers. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 274(1626): 2661-2667. Note: This paper has been selected for Faculty of 1000 Biology and evaluated by Thomas S. Collett.
15. Ohashi, K., A. Leslie, and J. D. Thomson (2008) Trapline foraging by bumble bees: V. Effects of experience and priority on competitive performance. Behavioral Ecology 19(5): 936-948.
16. Ohashi, K. and J. D. Thomson (2009) Trapline foraging by pollinators: its ontogeny, economics and possible consequences for plants. Annals of Botany 103(9): 1365-1378.
17. Ohashi, K. (2009) Consequences of plant-pollinator conflicts for floral evolution: can plants manipulate insect behavior? 60(3): 132-141. (in Japanese)
18. Ohashi, K., D. D'Souza, and J. D. Thomson (2010) An automated system for tracking and identifying individual nectar foragers at multiple feeders. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology (online first).
 


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