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Datasets

Research datasets from RMBL, the Spatial Data Platform, and partner repositories. Coverage filters use data years (when measurements were made), not publication dates.

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Place

Gunnison Basin (811)East River (201)Upper Colorado River Basin (168)Upper East River Beaver Pond (161)East River Watershed (144)Crested Butte (133)Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory (126)Gunnison County (94)Gothic (72)Rocky Mountains (71)

Method

Random Forest climate downscaling (52)Piezometer groundwater monitoring (50)drive-point piezometer groundwater sampling (48)standard water chemistry analysis suite (38)airborne aeromagnetic surveying (34)Satellite-based snow disappearance tracking (32)gravimetric method (32)Multiscale Model to Model Cloud Compare method (32)Fourier Transform Ion Cyclotron Resonance Mass Spectrometry (26)RTK-GNSS cross-section surveying (26)

Taxon

Centrocercus urophasianus (40)Centrocercus urophasianus or Centrocercus minimus (40)sage grouse (40)Centrocercus (40)Centrocercus minimus (40)Marmota (39)Gunnison sage-grouse (39)Yellow-bellied Marmot (36)Tamias minimus (34)Boechera stricta (32)

Sampling Frequency

sub-daily (238)daily (70)weekly (36)monthly (10)annual (165)multi-year (66)one-time (539)

Variables

air temperature (118)elevation (115)precipitation (101)soil moisture (92)snow depth (88)snow water equivalent (50)wind speed (48)soil temperature (45)streamflow (36)relative humidity (36)wind direction (33)water temperature (32)sex (31)discharge (31)

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Keywords

cations (22)anions (22)river corridor (19)metabolite (18)organic matter (18)mass spectrometry (18)hyporheic zone (18)metabolomics (18)fticr-ms (17)pore water (17)evapotranspiration (16)groundwater level (16)neon campaign 2018 (14)patriculate/dissolved organic carbon (13)

Format

geotiff (174)csv (9)

License

CC-BY 4.0 (466)Other / unknown (261)CC0 (232)CC-BY-SA 4.0 (13)CC-BY-NC 4.0 (2)MIT (1)

Repository

Other repositories (1094)ESS-DIVE (224)RMBL SDP (174)

Other repositories

Qinayan/Soil-thickness: Soil thickness estimation

Published 2021direct downloadEast River Watershed · Gunnison Basin · Pump House

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An organizing feature of bumble bee life history: worker emergence promotes queen reproduction and survival in young nests

Published 20211 citationdirect downloadGunnison Basin

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bblonder/aspen_neon: Code supporting Blonder et al., "Remote sensing of cytotype and its consequences for canopy damage in quaking aspen"

Published 2021direct downloadGunnison Basin

Other repositories38-year record

Phenological responses to climate change do not exhibit phylogenetic signal in a subalpine plant community

Published 2021Data 1974–2012direct downloadColorado Rocky Mountains · Upper East River Beaver Pond

Other repositories121-year record

An examination of synchrony between insect emergence and flowering in Rocky Mountain meadows.

Published 2021Data 1900–2021direct downloadGunnison Basin · Rocky Mountains · Upper East River Beaver Pond

Other repositories33-year record

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

Published 2021Data 1973–2006direct downloadGunnison Basin · Upper East River Beaver Pond

Other repositories38-year record

Appendix B. Phenological shifts and phenological sensitivity to snowmelt date and summer temperature data used in analyses.

Published 2021Data 1974–2012direct downloadGunnison Basin · Upper East River Beaver Pond

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Depth profiles of soil CO2 Concentrations, soil temperature, and soil moisture (Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, Gothic, Colorado, 2011-2016)

Published 2021Data 2011–2016direct downloadGothic · Gunnison Basin · Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory

Other repositories36-year record

Appendix C. Relationships between temperature and arrival of Broad-tailed Hummingbirds and flowering onset in its early-season nectar resources at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory in Colorado, USA.

Published 2021Data 1975–2011direct downloadGunnison Basin · Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory · Upper East River Beaver Pond

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Diversity and abundance of phyllosphere bacteria are linked to insect herbivory

Published 2021Data 2012–20121 citationdirect downloadGothic

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Why are some plant—nectar robber interactions commensalisms?

Published 2021Data 2014–20161 citationdirect downloadGunnison National Forest

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Habitat preference of an herbivore shapes the habitat distribution of its host plant

Published 2021Data 2010–2015direct downloadGunnison Basin · Upper East River Beaver Pond

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Low predictability of energy balance traits and leaf temperature metrics in desert, montane, and alpine plant communities

Published 2021Data 2016–20161 citationdirect downloadGunnison Basin · Upper East River Beaver Pond

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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

Published 2021Data 1973–20161 citationdirect downloadColorado Rocky Mountains

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Datasets

Qinayan/Soil-thickness: Soil thickness estimation

An organizing feature of bumble bee life history: worker emergence promotes queen reproduction and survival in young nests

bblonder/aspen_neon: Code supporting Blonder et al., "Remote sensing of cytotype and its consequences for canopy damage in quaking aspen"

Phenological responses to climate change do not exhibit phylogenetic signal in a subalpine plant community

An examination of synchrony between insect emergence and flowering in Rocky Mountain meadows.

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

Appendix B. Phenological shifts and phenological sensitivity to snowmelt date and summer temperature data used in analyses.

Depth profiles of soil CO2 Concentrations, soil temperature, and soil moisture (Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, Gothic, Colorado, 2011-2016)

Appendix C. Relationships between temperature and arrival of Broad-tailed Hummingbirds and flowering onset in its early-season nectar resources at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory in Colorado, USA.

Diversity and abundance of phyllosphere bacteria are linked to insect herbivory

Why are some plant—nectar robber interactions commensalisms?

Habitat preference of an herbivore shapes the habitat distribution of its host plant

Low predictability of energy balance traits and leaf temperature metrics in desert, montane, and alpine plant communities

Pollinator visitation rate and effectiveness vary with flowering phenology

Bee phenology is predicted by climatic variation and functional traits

The effect of demographic correlations on the stochastic population dynamics of perennial plants

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

Does environmental heterogeneity drive functional trait variation? A test in montane and alpine meadows

Frost sensitivity of leaves and flowers of subalpine plants is related to tissue type and phenology

Ecological causes and consequences of flower color polymorphism in a self-pollinating plant (Boechera stricta)