John’s Google Scholar page may be more up-to-date. Please see the people page for links to lab member’s individual websites.
Lab members underlined. G = Graduate Student; PD = Postdoc; UG = Undergraduate; RA = Research Associate
2026
Bailey, N.I.G, Comai, N.V.RA., Bartholomew, N.A.UG, J.M. Mola. 2026. Local-scale factors predict wild bee richness, whereas landscape-scale factors predict butterfly richness in city parks. Environmental Entomology, 55: 1. Link
McTigue, L. E., M. van den Bosch, H. M. Boone, McCaslin, H.M., Jones, L.N., Mola, J.M., Z.L. Steel. 2026. Global Trends in Drought Impacts on Wildlife—A Review. Global Change Biology 32(2): e70752. Link
2025
Champine, V.M.RA, Niemiec, R. M., Mola, J. M., and C.M. Keske. 2025. More than Just Honeybees: Exploring Native Insect Pollinator Knowledge and Support in Colorado. Society & Natural Resources, 1–21. Link
Mola, J. M., N. M. Williams. 2025. Bumble bee movement ecology: foraging and dispersal across castes and life stages. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 118(3): 175–188. Link
Ruszkowski, K. M.G, and J. M. Mola. 2025. Exotic Bees in Urban Ecosystems: Establishment, Impact, and Potential for Invasion. Current Opinion in Insect Science:101339. Link
Davis, T. S., J. M. Mola, and N. ComaiRA. 2025. Honeybee presence restructures pollination networks more than landscape context by reducing foraging breadths of wild bees. Landscape and Urban Planning 257:105305.
2024
van den Bosch, M.PD, J. K. Costanza, R. A. Peek, J. M. Mola, and Z. L. Steel. 2024. Climate change scenarios forecast increased drought exposure for terrestrial vertebrates in the contiguous United States. Communications Earth & Environment 5:708.
Mola, J. M., I. S. Pearse, M. L. Boone, E. Evans, M. J. Hepner, R. P. Jean, J. M. Kochanski, C. Nordmeyer, E. Runquist, T. A. Smith, J. P. Strange, J. Watson, and J. B. U. Koch. 2024. Range-wide genetic analysis of an endangered bumble bee (Bombus affinis, Hymenoptera: Apidae) reveals population structure, isolation by distance, and low colony abundance. Journal of Insect Science 24:19.
2023
Janousek, W. M., M. R. Douglas, S. Cannings, M. A. Clément, C. M. Delphia, J. G. Everett, R. G. Hatfield, D. A. Keinath, J. B. U. Koch, L. M. McCabe, J. M. Mola, J. E. Ogilvie, I. Rangwala, L. L. Richardson, A. T. Rohde, J. P. Strange, L. M. Tronstad, and T. A. Graves. 2023. Recent and future declines of a historically widespread pollinator linked to climate, land cover, and pesticides. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 120:e2211223120.
2022
Otto, C. R. V., A. C. Schrage, L. L. Bailey, J. M. Mola, T. A. Smith, I. Pearse, S. Simanonok, and R. Grundel. 2022. Addressing Detection Uncertainty in Bombus affinis (Hymenoptera: Apidae) Surveys Can Improve Inferences Made From Monitoring. Environmental Entomology:nvac090.
Kendall, L.K., Mola, J.M., Portman, Z.M., Cariveau, D., Smith, H.G., Bartomeus, I. 2022. The potential and realized foraging movements of bees are differentially determined by body size and sociality. Ecology.
Montero-Castaño, A., J. B. U. Koch, T.-T. T. Lindsay, B. Love, J. M. Mola, K. Newman, and J. K. Sharkey. 2022. Pursuing best practices for minimizing wild bee captures to support biological research. Conservation Science and Practice. Link
Rundlöf, M., C. Stuligross, A. Lindh, R. L. Malfi, K. Burns, J. M. Mola, S. Cibotti, and N. M. Williams. 2022. Flower plantings support wild bee reproduction and may also mitigate pesticide exposure effects. Journal of Applied Ecology. Link
2021
J.M. Mola, J. Hemberger, J. Kochanski, L. L. Richardson, and I. S. Pearse. 2021. Importance of forests in bumble bee biology and conservation. BioScience. Link
J.M. Mola, L. L. Richardson, G. Spyreas, D. N. Zaya, and I. S. Pearse. 2021. Long‐term surveys support declines in early season forest plants used by bumblebees. Journal of Applied Ecology:1365-2664.13886. Link
J.M. Mola, C. Stuligross, M.L. Page, D. Rutkowski, and N.M. Williams. 2021. Impact of “non-lethal” tarsal clipping on bumble bees (Bombus vosnesenskii) may depend on queen stage and worker size. Journal of Insect Conservation. 25:195–201. Open Access
2020
Smith, T.A., J.P. Strange, E.C. Evans, B.M. Sadd, J.C. Steiner, J.M. Mola and K. Traylor-Holzer.(Eds.). 2020. Rusty Patched Bumble Bee, Bombus affinis, Ex Situ Assessment and Planning Workshop: Final Report. IUCN SSC Conservation Planning Specialist Group, Apple Valley, MN, USA
Mola J.M., M.R. Miller, S. O’Rourke and N.M. Williams. 2020. Wildfire reveals transient change to individual traits and population responses of a native bumble bee Bombus vosnesenskii. Journal of Animal Ecology, LINK
Mola J.M., M.R. Miller, S. O’Rourke & N.M. Williams. 2020. Forests do not limit bumble bee foraging movements in a montane meadow complex. Ecological Entomology, LINK
LoPresti, E.F., J. Goidell, J.M. Mola, M.L. Page, C.D. Specht, C. Stuligross, M.G. Weber, N.M. Williams, and R. Karban. 2020. A lever action hypothesis for pendulous hummingbird flowers: experimental evidence from a columbine, Annals of Botany 125(2): 59-65. DOI
2019
Williams, N.M., J.M. Mola, Stuligross, C., Harrison, T., Page, M., Brennan, R., Rosenberger, N., & Rundlöf, M. 2019. Fantastic bees and where to find them: locating the cryptic overwintering queens of a western bumble bee. Ecosphere 9(1):e02056. Open Access
Mola, J. M. and N. M. Williams. 2019. A review of methods for the study of bumble bee movement. Apidologie 50: 497–514. DOI
Mola, J. M. 2019. Bumble bee movement ecology and response to wildfire with an emphasis on genetic mark-recapture techniques. Doctoral Dissertation. University of California Davis. LINK
2018
LoPresti, E. F., J. I. V. Wyk, J. M. Mola, K. Toll, T. J. Miller, and N. M. Williams. 2018. Effects of wildfire on floral display size and pollinator community reduce outcrossing rate in a plant with a mixed mating system. American Journal of Botany 105:1154–1164.
Mola, J. M., and N. M. Williams. 2018. Fire-induced change in floral abundance, density, and phenology benefits bumble bee foragers. Ecosphere 9. Open Access
Earlier
Mola, J. M., J. M. Varner, E. S. Jules, and T. Spector. 2014. Altered Community Flammability in Florida’s Apalachicola Ravines and Implications for the Persistence of the Endangered Conifer Torreya taxifolia. PLoS ONE 9:e103933. PDFKreye, J. K., J. M. Varner, J. K. Hiers, and J. Mola. 2013. Toward a mechanism for eastern North American forest mesophication: differential litter drying across 17 species. Ecological Applications 23:1976–1986.