Climate Change Impacts

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Hidden features: How subsurface and landscape heterogeneity govern hydrologic connectivity and stream chemistry in a montane watershed

2025Hydrological Processes

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Warming disrupts plant–fungal endophyte symbiosis more severely in leaves than roots

2025Global Change Biology

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A multi-year case study highlighting the influence of hydrological conditions on epidemic dynamics in a natural plant pathosystem

2025Oikos

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Declining groundwater storage expected to amplify mountain streamflow reductions in a warmer world

2024Nature Water

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Estimating Local Abundance of Bombus Queens in Meadows of Rocky Mountains, Colorado, USA

2024

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The Effects of Early Snowmelt on Drought Stress in Subalpine Plant Species

2024

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Effects of Temperature and Competitor Abundance on Bumble Bee Foraging

2024

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Plant-Pollinator Interactions between Erigeron speciosus and Heterotheca villosa in Virginia Basin

2024

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Does current weather or seasonality influence antipredator vigilance in a hibernating mammal?

2024

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Effects of Daily Temperature Changes on Broad-Tailed Hummingbird Foraging Patterns

2023

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Plasticity in Ipomopsis flower color and nectar production over space and time in response to water availability

2023

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Effects of warming, dominant species removal, and accelerated snowmelt on aboveground plant traits in the Colorado Rocky Mountains

2023

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Hot and Cold: Assessing the Thermal Limitations of Bumble Bees in a Changing Climate

2023

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Do pollinator and plant diversity vary with microclimate heterogeneity?

2023

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Characterization of thermal tolerance in sub-alpine bumblebee species

2023

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Host plant phenology shapes aphid abundance and interactions with ants

2023Oikos

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Herbivory damage but not plant disease under experimental warming is dependent on weather for three subalpine grass species

2023Journal of Animal Ecology

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Sage-Grouse

2023

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Extensive regional variation in the phenology of insects and their response to temperature across North America

2023Ecology

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Long-term declines in insect abundance and biomass in a subalpine habitat

2023Ecosphere

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Effects of Altitude on the Growth, Mortality, and Recruitment of Subalpine Tree Species in the West Elk Mountains of Colorado.

2023

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Phenotypic plasticity and selection on leaf traits in response to snowmelt timing and summer precipitation

2022New Phytologist

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Comparative impacts of long-term trends in snowmelt and species interactions on plant population dynamics

2022Journal of Ecology

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Perils of life on the edge: Climatic threats to global diversity patterns of wetland macroinvertebrates

2022Science of the Total Environment

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Legume germination is delayed in dry soils and in sterile soils devoid of microbial mutualists: Species-specific implications for upward range expansions

2022Ecology and Evolution

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The shifting importance of abiotic and biotic factors across the life cycles of wild pollinators

2022Journal of Animal Ecology

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Integrating natural gradients, experiments, and statistical modeling in a distributed network experiment: An example from the WaRM Network

2022Ecology and Evolution

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The Boechera model system for evolutionary ecology

2022American Journal of Botany

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Surface parameters and bedrock properties covary across a mountainous watershed: Insights from machine learning and geophysics

2022Science Advances

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Floral phenotypic response of Ipomopsis aggregata and related hybrids to changing soil moisture and nitrogen enrichment

2022

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The effects of environmental variation on daily abundance patterns and diet breadth of bumble bee species

2022

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The Effect of Snowmelt Timing on Pollinator Visitation to Subalpine Wildflowers

2022

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Effects of Environmental Pond Drying Cues on Asynarchus nigriculus Cannibalism Rates

2022

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Revealing the direct and indirect effects of climate change on soil nutrient dynamics and forage resources in mountain ecosystems

2022

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Nowcasting the distribution of Valeriana edulis using climate driven population models

2021

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Biotic interactions at species’ range limits in a changing climate

2021

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From animals to ecosystem processes: Predicting functional outcomes of climate-driven changes in animal communities through species traits

2021

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The spatial variation of leaf traits in Ipomopsis according to soil moisture and snow depth

2021

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Comparative study on pollinator visits to high elevation plant communities in Virginia Basin, Gothic, Colorado

2021

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Comparison of Drought Response between Taraxacum officinale and Delphinium nuttallianum

2021

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Temperature Selection in the Arizona Tiger Salamander ( Ambystoma mavortium nebulosum )

2021

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Effect of elevation, season and accelerated snowmelt on biogeochemical processes during isolated conifer needle litter decomposition

2021PeerJ

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Open-top warming chambers reduce animal pollination of two subalpine herbs

2021Journal of Pollination Ecology

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Green Light for Adaptive Policies on the Colorado River

2021Water

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Exploring effects of proliferation of Didymosphenia geminata on abundance and coexistence of Rhyacophila species (Trichoptera) in streams near the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory

2020

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Assessing the forecastability & forecast skill of models to predict sex ratios of Valeriana edulis

2020

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Contrasting effects of climate change on seasonal survival of a hibernating mammal.

2020Proceedings of the National Academy of the United States

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Accelerated snowmelt protocol to simulate climate change induced impacts on snowpack dependent ecosystems

2020Bio-protocol

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How Spatial Variation Affects Plant Phenology

2020

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The Direct and Interactive Effects of Warming and Species Interaction on Plant Functional Traits

2019

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How vulnerable are pollen-specialist solitary bees to temperature-mediated shifts in the timing of food availability?

2019

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King of the hill? How biotic interactions affect biogeographical pattern and species responses to climate change

2019

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Early snowmelt projected to cause population decline in a subalpine plant

2019PNAS

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Carbon Dioxide Concentrations and Efflux from Permanent, Semi-Permanent, and Temporary Subalpine Ponds

2019Wetlands

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A meta-analysis of 1,119 manipulative experiments on terrestrial carbon-cycling responses to global change

2019Nature Ecology & Evolutiion

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Parasitism modifies the direct effects of warming on a hemiparasite and its host

2019PLOS ONE

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Challenges in Building an End-to-End System for Acquisition, Management, and Integration of Diverse Data From Sensor Networks in Watersheds: Lessons From a Mountainous Community Observatory in East River, Colorado

2019IEEE Access

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Identifying the Impact of Biotic Interactions on Meadow Species Distributions in Sagebrush and Bunchgrass Dominated Systems

2019

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Global Climate Change-Induced Mutualism Breakdown Among Legumes and their Soil Synbionts

2019

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The impacts of long term warming on potential soil microbial activity across soil depth

2019

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Traditional plant functional groups explain variation in economic but not size related traits across the tundra biome

2018Global ecology and biogeography

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Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, Gothic CO Ecology of Place: Making Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Spatially Explicit

2018Mountain Views

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Climate Warming Drives Local Extinction in a Subalpine Meadow

2018Mountain Views

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50 years of mountain passes: A perspective on Dan Janzen's classic article

2018American Naturalist

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Transgenerational and within-generation plasticity in response to climate change: insights from a manipulative field experiment across an elevational gradient

2018Am. Nat.

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Rocky Mountain Biological Lab. Ecology of Place: Making Ecology and Evolutionary Biology spatially explicit

2018Mountain Views

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Can Variation of Insect Populations Affect Mountain White-crowned Sparrow Daily Nest Survival?

2018

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The Effect of Climate Change on Plant Communities in the Rocky Mountains: How floral traits differ along an elevational gradient and in reciprocally transplanted communities

2018

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Effects of Climate Change on Plants, Pollinators and Their Interactions

2018

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Impacts of Historical Hydroperiod on Bird Predation of Emergent Aquatic Insects

2017

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Biotic and abiotic drivers of plant symbionts determine plant performance, the maintenance of diversity, and response to global change

2017

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Differences in Evolutionary History and Ploidy Type Shape the Interactions of Populus tremuloides Michx. with Climate

2017

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Shifts in water availability mediate plantâ€“pollinator interactions

2017New Phytologist

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Phenological responses to multiple environmental drivers under climate change: insights from a long-term observational study and a manipulative field experiment

2017

student_paper

Does it stay or does it go: exploring seasonal influences on nutrients across topography in a Colorado mountain watershed

2017

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Pond nutrient storage across permanence and temporal gradients

2017

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A Comparative Analysis of Saxicolous Lichen Diversity and Cover along an Elevation Gradient on Talus Slopes in Gunnison National Forest to Infer Possible Climate Change Effects

2017

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Caddisfly behavioral responses to drying cues in temporary ponds: Implications for effects of climate change

2016Freshwater Science

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Observed forest sensitivity to climate implies large changes in 21st century North American forest growth

2016Ecology Letters

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Quantifying global soil carbon losses in response to warming

2016Nature

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Individual variation in plant traits drives species interactions, ecosystem functioning, and responses to global change.

2016

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Investigating Herbivore Relationships to Boechera stricta in a Climate Change Context.

2015

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Adaptation to climate and climate change in Rocky Mountain butterflies: Morphology, physiology, and behavior

2015

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Propagating climate and vegetation change through the hydrologic cycle in a mountain headwaters catchment.

2015

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Plasticity in functional traits in the context of climate change: A case study of the subalpine forb Boechera stricta (Brassicaceae)

2015Global Change Biology

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Effects of experimental warming on herbivory and pathogen loads on subalpine grass species Festuca thurberi, Poa pratensis, and Achnatherum lettermanii

2015

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Does snowmelt timing affect bumble bee colony abundance?

2015

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Effects of Alpine Shrub Cover on Territorial Male White-Crown Sparrows Densities.

2015

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Effects of early snowmelt and climate warming on Valeriana edulis and the insects that depend on it.

2014

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Effects of water availability on the relationship between seed set and pollen received in Ipomopsis aggregate.

2014

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Determinants of pika population density vs. occupancy in the Southern Rocky Mountains

2014Ecological Applications

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Trichome density differences in Boechera stricta across an elevational gradient.

2014

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Rapid evolution and population divergence in response to environmental change in Colias butterlies

2014

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An Endophyte alters biological characteristics of the grass, Festuca thurberi.

2014

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How does altered phenology affect pollination and reproduction of Delphinium nuttallianum?

2013

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Erratum to “Holocene alluvial stratigraphy and response to climate change in the Roaring River valley, Front Range, Colorado, USA” [Quat. Res.78 (2012) 197–208]

2012Quaternary Research

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Phenotypic plasticity and adaptive evolution contribute to advancing flowering phenology in response to climate change

2012Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences

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Insight from Integration

2012Nature

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Syrphid fly distributions along an elevation gradient in and around the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory (RMBL)

2012

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On the generality of a climate-mediated shift in the distribution of the American pika (Ochotona princeps)

2011Ecology

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Activity and abundance of bumble bees near Crested Butte, CO: diel, seasonal, and elevation effects

2011Ecological Entomology

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Testing the maximum entropy theory of ecology in the warming meadow

2011

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The effects of climate change on plant traits and fruiting phenology of Delphinium nuttallianum.

2011

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Flowering phenology in subalpine meadows: does climate variation influence community co-flowering patterns?

2010Ecology

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Toward a synthetic understanding of the role of phenology in ecology and evolution

2010Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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Controls on radial growth of mountain big sagebrush and implications for climate change

2009Western North American Naturalist

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Environmental forces drive morphological variation in an alpine annual plant

2009

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Effects of climate change on phenology, frost damage, and floral abundance of montane wildflowers

2008Ecology

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Devising an ageing technique for Artemisia tridentata ssp. vaseyana near Crested Butte, Colorado

2007

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Changes in mosquito community of Gunnison County since 1966

2007

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The effects of slope orientation and temperature upon activity of the north american pika, Ochotona princeps

2006

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Ecosystem responses to warming-induced plant species loss and increased nitrogen availability in a Rocky Mountain subalpine meadow

2006

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Emergence cues of a mayfly in a high-altitude stream ecosystem: Potential response to climate change

2006Ecological Applications

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Effects of climate change on growth and seedling establishment of young lodgepole pine

2005

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Environmental influences on the phenology and abundance of flowering by Androsace septentrionalis (Primulaceae)

2003American Journal of Botany

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Changes in flowering and abundance of Delphinium nuttallianum (Ranunculaceae) in response to a subalpine climate warming experiment

2003Global Change Biology

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The responses of montane shrubs to spatial and temporal climate variation in

2003URBEE

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Ecological Feedbacks to Global Warming: Extending Results from Plot to Landscape Scale

1998

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Terrestrial ecosytem feedbacks to global climate change

1997Annual Review Energy Environment

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Geology of part of the southern Sangre de Cristo Mountains, New Mexico

1963

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Does rainfall or temperature influence antipredator vigilance in a hibernating mammal?

Shorter seasonal snow cover poses a risk to solitary bee populations in a mountainous ecosystem

Climatic variation and risk assessment in a highly seasonal mammal

Picky eater? How different environmental factors affect broad-tailed hummingbirds’ (Selasphorus platycercus) foraging patterns in the Rocky Mountains

The impacts of environmental change on plant and microbial communities: A turf transplant experiment in the Colorado Rocky Mountains

Temperature influences pollinators' choice of floral partners independently of community composition

Temperature and relative humidity effects on nectar quantity, nectar quality, and plant-pollinator interactions

Biotic and abiotic drivers of pathogen prevalence in a rust fungus with multiple plant hosts

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A Useful Guide to Architecture, History and Building in Crested Butte

Eight Thousand Million People by the Year 2010?

Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Designation of Critical Habitat for Ipomopsis polyantha (Pagosa skyrocket), Penstemon debilis (Parachute beardtongue), and Phacelia submutica (DeBeque phacelia)

Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Designation of Critical Habitat for Ipomopsis polyantha (Pagosa skyrocket), Penstemon debilis (Parachute beardtongue), and Phacelia submutica (DeBeque phacelia)

Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Determination of Endangered Status for Ipomopsis polyantha (Pagosa Skyrocket) and Threatened Status for Penstemon debilis (Parachute Beardtongue) and Phacelia submutica (DeBeque Phacelia)

Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Endangered Status and Critical Habitat Designation for Gunnison Sage-Grouse

Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Establishment of a Nonessential Experimental Population of the North American Wolverine in Colorado, Wyoming, and New Mexico

Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Removal of the Colorado Hookless Cactus From the Federal List of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife

Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Removal of the Colorado Hookless Cactus From the Federal List of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife

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Natural selection on floral volatiles and other traits can change with snowmelt timing and summer precipitation

Predicting the contribution of single trait evolution to rescuing a plant population from demographic impacts of climate change

Hidden features: How subsurface and landscape heterogeneity govern hydrologic connectivity and stream chemistry in a montane watershed

Warming disrupts plant–fungal endophyte symbiosis more severely in leaves than roots

A multi-year case study highlighting the influence of hydrological conditions on epidemic dynamics in a natural plant pathosystem

Declining groundwater storage expected to amplify mountain streamflow reductions in a warmer world

Estimating Local Abundance of Bombus Queens in Meadows of Rocky Mountains, Colorado, USA

The Effects of Early Snowmelt on Drought Stress in Subalpine Plant Species

Effects of Temperature and Competitor Abundance on Bumble Bee Foraging

Plant-Pollinator Interactions between Erigeron speciosus and Heterotheca villosa in Virginia Basin

Does current weather or seasonality influence antipredator vigilance in a hibernating mammal?

Effects of Daily Temperature Changes on Broad-Tailed Hummingbird Foraging Patterns

Plasticity in Ipomopsis flower color and nectar production over space and time in response to water availability

Effects of warming, dominant species removal, and accelerated snowmelt on aboveground plant traits in the Colorado Rocky Mountains

Hot and Cold: Assessing the Thermal Limitations of Bumble Bees in a Changing Climate

Do pollinator and plant diversity vary with microclimate heterogeneity?

Characterization of thermal tolerance in sub-alpine bumblebee species

Host plant phenology shapes aphid abundance and interactions with ants

Herbivory damage but not plant disease under experimental warming is dependent on weather for three subalpine grass species

Sage-Grouse

Extensive regional variation in the phenology of insects and their response to temperature across North America

Long-term declines in insect abundance and biomass in a subalpine habitat

Effects of Altitude on the Growth, Mortality, and Recruitment of Subalpine Tree Species in the West Elk Mountains of Colorado.

Phenotypic plasticity and selection on leaf traits in response to snowmelt timing and summer precipitation

Comparative impacts of long-term trends in snowmelt and species interactions on plant population dynamics

Perils of life on the edge: Climatic threats to global diversity patterns of wetland macroinvertebrates

Legume germination is delayed in dry soils and in sterile soils devoid of microbial mutualists: Species-specific implications for upward range expansions

The shifting importance of abiotic and biotic factors across the life cycles of wild pollinators

Integrating natural gradients, experiments, and statistical modeling in a distributed network experiment: An example from the WaRM Network

The Boechera model system for evolutionary ecology

Surface parameters and bedrock properties covary across a mountainous watershed: Insights from machine learning and geophysics

Floral phenotypic response of <i> Ipomopsis aggregata </i> and related hybrids to changing soil moisture and nitrogen enrichment

The effects of environmental variation on daily abundance patterns and diet breadth of bumble bee species

The Effect of Snowmelt Timing on Pollinator Visitation to Subalpine Wildflowers

Effects of Environmental Pond Drying Cues on <i> Asynarchus nigriculus </i> Cannibalism Rates

Revealing the direct and indirect effects of climate change on soil nutrient dynamics and forage resources in mountain ecosystems

Nowcasting the distribution of <i> Valeriana edulis </i> using climate driven population models