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environmental variability — RMBL Knowledge Commons

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environmental variability

Scope: general ecology

Papers: 28 | Mentions: 65

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Knowledge graph centered on environmental variability with 79 nodes and 196 connections. Top connected: Bombus, Ipomopsis, Ligusticum porteri, Delphinium, I. aggregata.

Definition

Temporal variation in environmental conditions measured as standard deviation of temperature and vegetation indices

Related Terms (3)

thermal variationtemporal variabilityenvironmental variation

Publications (28)

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

2025Hydrological Processescontext

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

2025Journal of Animal Ecologycentral

Long-term measurements of ice nucleating particles at Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) sites worldwide

2025Earth System Science Datameasured variable

Environmental Variation and Vegetative Composition in Beaver Engineered Ecosystems

Interpopulation variation and optimal mating in the perennial herb, Polemonium brandegeei

2024measured variable

Cold-season precipitation sensitivity to microphysical parameterizations: hydrologic evaluations leveraging snow lidar datasets

2024Journal of Hydrometeorologyprimary focus

Surface Temperature Variability Across the East River Watershed

Effects of microclimate, dispersal, species interactions, and environmental stochasticity on demography

Documents (3)

technical report

A Classification of the Riparian Vegetation of the Gunnison River Basin, Colorado

technical report

American Institute of Architects Regional Urban Design Assistance Team Gunnison Country

environmental assessment

Summary of the Draft Environmental Impact Statement

Related Concepts (10)

climate change

phenomenon31 shared papers

snowpack persistence

process26 shared papers

trait variation

measurement20 shared papers

groundwater storage dynamics

process16 shared papers

adaptation

phenomenon14 shared papers

phenology

process13 shared papers

ecosystem function

process13 shared papers

precipitation

measurement13 shared papers

phenotypic plasticity

process13 shared papers

bet-hedging

framework12 shared papers

Frequently Associated Species

Osmia iridis

Megachilidae11 papers

Ligusticum porteri

Apiaceae9 papers

Atriplex canescens

not mentioned8 papers

Lepidoptera

Ipomopsis

Polemoniaceae6 papers

Delphinium

Ranunculaceae6 papers

I. aggregata

Bacteria

Spruce

native species

2023primary focus

The Surface Atmosphere Integrated Field Laboratory (SAIL) Campaign

2023Bulletin of the American Meteorological Societycontext

Sage-Grouse

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Understanding the Hydrogeochemical Response of a Mountainous Watershed Using Integrated Surface-Subsurface Flow and Reactive Transport Modeling

2022Water Resources Researchcontext

Modeling Spatial Distribution of Snow Water Equivalent by Combining Meteorological and Satellite Data with Lidar Maps

2022Artificial Intelligence for the Earth Systemscontext

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

2022Ecology and Evolutioncontext

Quantifying Subsurface Flow and Solute Transport in a Snowmelt-Recharged Hillslope With Multiyear Water Balance

2022Water Resources Researchcontext

Do microorganisms obey macroecological rules?

2021Authoreacontext

Ecological contexts of balancing selection in nature

Remote Sensing-Informed Zonation for Understanding Snow, Plant and Soil Moisture Dynamics within a Mountain Ecosystem

2020Remote Sensingreferenced

Seasonal Manganese Transport in the Hyporheic Zone of a Snowmelt-Dominated River (East River, Colorado)

2020Hydrogeology Journalprimary focus

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

2019Wetlandsmeasured variable

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

2018Mountain Viewsprimary focus

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

2018American Naturalistmeasured variable

Scaling from traits to ecosystems: Developing a general trait driver theory via integrating trait-based and metabolic scaling theories

2015Advances in Ecological Researchmeasured variable

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

Plant responses to the joint effects of herbivores and pollinators

Late Quaternary Paleoecology of Two High-Elevation Mammal Species from the Southern Rocky Mountains, Colorado, USA

Plant–Pollinator interactions in a changing climate

2010primary focus

Intercomparison, interpretation, and assessment of spring phenology in North America estimated from remote sensing for 1982 to 2006

2009Global Change Biologycontext

Bottom-up effects of nutrient enrichment on plants, pollinators, and their interactions

2008measured variable