Stacey A. Combes - Publications

Affiliations: 
Concord Field Station Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States 
Website:
http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/faculty/combes/Site_2/Welcome.html

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Year Citation  Score
2023 Combes SA, Gravish N, Gagliardi SF. Going against the flow: bumblebees prefer to fly upwind and display more variable kinematics when flying downwind. The Journal of Experimental Biology. 226. PMID 37070947 DOI: 10.1242/jeb.245374  0.329
2023 Burnett NP, Combes SA. Close encounters of three kinds: impacts of leg, wing and body collisions on flight performance in carpenter bees. The Journal of Experimental Biology. 226. PMID 37066861 DOI: 10.1242/jeb.245334  0.323
2020 Burnett NP, Badger MA, Combes SA. Wind and obstacle motion affect honeybee flight strategies in cluttered environments. The Journal of Experimental Biology. PMID 32561633 DOI: 10.1242/Jeb.222471  0.342
2020 Combes SA, Gagliardi SF, Switzer CM, Dillon ME. Kinematic flexibility allows bumblebees to increase energetic efficiency when carrying heavy loads. Science Advances. 6: eaay3115. PMID 32076646 DOI: 10.1126/Sciadv.Aay3115  0.32
2019 Ravi S, Noda R, Gagliardi S, Kolomenskiy D, Combes S, Liu H, Biewener AA, Konow N. Modulation of Flight Muscle Recruitment and Wing Rotation Enables Hummingbirds to Mitigate Aerial Roll Perturbations. Current Biology : Cb. PMID 31902723 DOI: 10.1016/J.Cub.2019.11.025  0.684
2018 Crall JD, Switzer CM, Oppenheimer RL, Ford Versypt AN, Dey B, Brown A, Eyster M, Guérin C, Pierce NE, Combes SA, de Bivort BL. Neonicotinoid exposure disrupts bumblebee nest behavior, social networks, and thermoregulation. Science (New York, N.Y.). 362: 683-686. PMID 30409882 DOI: 10.1126/Science.Aat1598  0.347
2018 Ortega-Jiménez VM, Combes SA. Living in a trash can: turbulent convective flows impair flight performance. Journal of the Royal Society, Interface. 15. PMID 30355810 DOI: 10.1098/Rsif.2018.0636  0.377
2018 Crall JD, Gravish N, Mountcastle AM, Kocher SD, Oppenheimer RL, Pierce NE, Combes SA. Author Correction: Spatial fidelity of workers predicts collective response to disturbance in a social insect. Nature Communications. 9: 2180. PMID 29855478 DOI: 10.1038/S41467-018-04598-7  0.704
2018 Switzer CM, Combes SA, Hopkins R. Dispensing Pollen via Catapult: Explosive Pollen Release in Mountain Laurel (Kalmia latifolia). The American Naturalist. 191: 767-776. PMID 29750554 DOI: 10.1086/697220  0.301
2018 Crall JD, Gravish N, Mountcastle AM, Kocher SD, Oppenheimer RL, Pierce NE, Combes SA. Spatial fidelity of workers predicts collective response to disturbance in a social insect. Nature Communications. 9: 1201. PMID 29615611 DOI: 10.1038/S41467-018-03561-W  0.731
2017 Peters JM, Gravish N, Combes SA. Wings as impellers: Honey bees co-opt flight system to induce nest ventilation and disperse pheromones. The Journal of Experimental Biology. PMID 28404729 DOI: 10.1242/Jeb.149476  0.733
2017 Crall JD, Chang JJ, Oppenheimer RL, Combes SA. Foraging in an unsteady world: bumblebee flight performance in field-realistic turbulence. Interface Focus. 7: 20160086. PMID 28163878 DOI: 10.1098/Rsfs.2016.0086  0.389
2017 Crall JD, Switzer CM, Myers SS, Combes SA, de Bivort BL. Pesticides and pollinators, an automated platform to assess the effects of neonicotinoid exposure and other environmental stressors on bee colonies: a computational, ethological study The Lancet. 389: S4. DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(17)31116-9  0.318
2016 Mistick EA, Mountcastle AM, Combes SA. Wing flexibility improves bumblebee flight stability. The Journal of Experimental Biology. PMID 27638618 DOI: 10.1242/Jeb.133157  0.776
2016 Chang JJ, Crall JD, Combes SA. Wind alters landing dynamics in bumblebees. The Journal of Experimental Biology. PMID 27436135 DOI: 10.1242/Jeb.137976  0.373
2016 Mountcastle AM, Alexander TM, Switzer CM, Combes SA. Wing wear reduces bumblebee flight performance in a dynamic obstacle course. Biology Letters. 12. PMID 27303054 DOI: 10.1098/Rsbl.2016.0294  0.764
2016 Switzer CM, Combes SA. The neonicotinoid pesticide, imidacloprid, affects Bombus impatiens (bumblebee) sonication behavior when consumed at doses below the LD50. Ecotoxicology (London, England). PMID 27189613 DOI: 10.1007/S10646-016-1669-Z  0.335
2016 Switzer CM, Hogendoorn K, Ravi S, Combes SA. Shakers and head bangers: differences in sonication behavior between Australian Amegilla murrayensis (blue-banded bees) and North American Bombus impatiens (bumblebees) Arthropod-Plant Interactions. 10: 1-8. DOI: 10.1007/S11829-015-9407-7  0.342
2015 Gravish N, Peters JM, Combes SA, Wood RJ. Collective Flow Enhancement by Tandem Flapping Wings. Physical Review Letters. 115: 188101. PMID 26565499 DOI: 10.1103/Physrevlett.115.188101  0.723
2015 Crall JD, Ravi S, Mountcastle AM, Combes SA. Bumblebee flight performance in cluttered environments: effects of obstacle orientation, body size and acceleration. The Journal of Experimental Biology. 218: 2728-37. PMID 26333927 DOI: 10.1242/Jeb.121293  0.77
2015 Crall JD, Gravish N, Mountcastle AM, Combes SA. BEEtag: A Low-Cost, Image-Based Tracking System for the Study of Animal Behavior and Locomotion. Plos One. 10: e0136487. PMID 26332211 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0136487  0.724
2015 Mountcastle AM, Ravi S, Combes SA. Nectar vs. pollen loading affects the tradeoff between flight stability and maneuverability in bumblebees. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 112: 10527-32. PMID 26240364 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.1506126112  0.76
2015 Ravi S, Crall JD, McNeilly L, Gagliardi SF, Biewener AA, Combes SA. Hummingbird flight stability and control in freestream turbulent winds. The Journal of Experimental Biology. 218: 1444-52. PMID 25767146 DOI: 10.1242/Jeb.114553  0.685
2015 Combes SA. Neuroscience: Dragonflies predict and plan their hunts. Nature. 517: 279-80. PMID 25487145 DOI: 10.1038/Nature14078  0.344
2014 Mountcastle AM, Combes SA. Biomechanical strategies for mitigating collision damage in insect wings: structural design versus embedded elastic materials. The Journal of Experimental Biology. 217: 1108-15. PMID 24311806 DOI: 10.1242/Jeb.092916  0.763
2014 Hedrick TL, Combes SA, Miller LA. Recent developments in the study of insect flight Canadian Journal of Zoology. 93: 925-943. DOI: 10.1139/Cjz-2013-0196  0.342
2014 Gravish N, Chen Y, Combes SA, Wood RJ. High-throughput study of flapping wing aerodynamics for biological and robotic applications Ieee International Conference On Intelligent Robots and Systems. 3397-3403. DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2014.6943035  0.373
2014 Gravish N, Combes S, Wood RJ. A bio-inspired wing driver for the study of insect-scale flight aerodynamics Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics). 8608: 396-398. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-09435-9_41  0.419
2013 Ravi S, Crall JD, Fisher A, Combes SA. Rolling with the flow: bumblebees flying in unsteady wakes. The Journal of Experimental Biology. 216: 4299-309. PMID 24031057 DOI: 10.1242/Jeb.090845  0.372
2013 Combes SA, Salcedo MK, Pandit MM, Iwasaki JM. Capture success and efficiency of dragonflies pursuing different types of prey. Integrative and Comparative Biology. 53: 787-98. PMID 23784698 DOI: 10.1093/Icb/Ict072  0.39
2013 Mountcastle AM, Combes SA. Wing flexibility enhances load-lifting capacity in bumblebees. Proceedings. Biological Sciences / the Royal Society. 280: 20130531. PMID 23536604 DOI: 10.1098/Rspb.2013.0531  0.759
2012 Combes SA, Rundle DE, Iwasaki JM, Crall JD. Linking biomechanics and ecology through predator-prey interactions: flight performance of dragonflies and their prey. The Journal of Experimental Biology. 215: 903-13. PMID 22357584 DOI: 10.1242/Jeb.059394  0.348
2011 Donoughe S, Crall JD, Merz RA, Combes SA. Resilin in dragonfly and damselfly wings and its implications for wing flexibility. Journal of Morphology. 272: 1409-21. PMID 21915894 DOI: 10.1002/Jmor.10992  0.39
2010 Combes SA, Crall JD, Mukherjee S. Dynamics of animal movement in an ecological context: dragonfly wing damage reduces flight performance and predation success. Biology Letters. 6: 426-9. PMID 20236968 DOI: 10.1098/Rsbl.2009.0915  0.382
2009 Shang JK, Combes SA, Finio BM, Wood RJ. Artificial insect wings of diverse morphology for flapping-wing micro air vehicles. Bioinspiration & Biomimetics. 4: 036002. PMID 19713572 DOI: 10.1088/1748-3182/4/3/036002  0.579
2009 Combes SA, Dudley R. Turbulence-driven instabilities limit insect flight performance. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 106: 9105-8. PMID 19458254 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.0902186106  0.427
2005 Combes SA, Daniel TL. Flexural Stiffness in Insect Wings: Effects of Wing Venation and Stiffness Distribution on Passive Bending American Entomologist. 51: 42-44. DOI: 10.1093/AE/51.1.42  0.56
2003 Combes SA, Daniel TL. Into thin air: Contributions of aerodynamic and inertial-elastic forces to wing bending in the hawkmoth Manduca sexta. The Journal of Experimental Biology. 206: 2999-3006. PMID 12878668 DOI: 10.1242/Jeb.00502  0.627
2003 Combes SA, Daniel TL. Flexural stiffness in insect wings. II. Spatial distribution and dynamic wing bending. The Journal of Experimental Biology. 206: 2989-97. PMID 12878667 DOI: 10.1242/Jeb.00524  0.647
2003 Combes SA, Daniel TL. Flexural stiffness in insect wings. I. Scaling and the influence of wing venation. The Journal of Experimental Biology. 206: 2979-87. PMID 12878666 DOI: 10.1242/Jeb.00523  0.631
2002 Daniel TL, Combes SA. Flexible wings and fins: bending by inertial or fluid-dynamic forces? Integrative and Comparative Biology. 42: 1044-9. PMID 21680386 DOI: 10.1093/Icb/42.5.1044  0.628
2001 Combes SA, Daniel TL. Shape, flapping and flexion: wing and fin design for forward flight. The Journal of Experimental Biology. 204: 2073-85. PMID 11441049  0.638
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