West Elk Mountains

Scale: regional

Elevation range: 2700m – 4000m

Habitat: mountainous region, mountainous terrain, subalpine mountain range, high alpine ponds, montane, montane and subalpine, montane ecosystem, mountain range, subalpine, high elevation mountains, alpine and subalpine, mountainous, alpine, mountainous systems, subalpine and montane, mountainous areas, wildflower, subalpine meadows, mountain elevational transects, subalpine forest, Alpine and subalpine plant communities, mountain region

Also known as: Elk Mountains, Elk mountains, West Elk mountains, Mountains

Papers: 101 | Mentions: 128

West Elk Mountains

Child Places (20)

Cliff

Copper Creek drainage

Crystal Pluton

East Beckwith Mountain

Gunsight Pass

High site

Kebler Pass

Low site

Maroon Bells

Maroon Bells Wilderness

Mexican Cut Preserve

Mid site

Mt. Axtell

Mt. Bellview

Redwell Basin

Treasure Mountain Dome

Washington Gulch

White Rock Mountain

White Rock Pluton

Whiterock Pluton

Publications (104)

Rare species do not disproportionately contribute to phylogenetic diversity in a subalpine plant community

Matrix diffusion controls mountain hillslope groundwater ages and inferred storage dynamics

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

Quantifying the effect of petrogenic carbon on SOC turnover for two Rocky Mountain soils: when are petrogenic carbon corrections required?

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

Alpine plant spatial clumping modifies leaf surface temperature

Best restoration practices: Do BDAs mimic inundation patterns of natural beaver dams?

Datasets (20)

Range size and local abundance data for angiosperm communities across an elevation gradient, Rocky Mountain Biological Lab, 2021-2022

Raw soil carbon dioxide, moisture, and temperature data from a mixed conifer and aspen forest stands in the East River Watershed of Colorado June 2011-December 2021.

Mammalian herbivores restrict the altitudinal range limits of three alpine grass species

Strontium isotopic data from the Mount Emmons-Redwell area, Crested Butte, Colorado

Whole rock major, minor, and trace element geochemistry of the upper part of the Mount Emmons-Redwell porphyry molybdenum (Climax-type) deposit, Redwell Basin, Crested Butte, Colorado

Mammalian herbivores restrict the altitudinal range limits of three alpine grass species, West Elk Mountains, Colorado, USA 2015-2018

Environmental tracer data from surface water and groundwater samples collected in Redwell Basin near Crested Butte, Colorado, 2017-2019

Bee phenology is predicted by climatic variation and functional traits

Documents (4)

Notice of Availability of the Draft Conservation Strategy for the Southern Rocky Mountain Population of the Boreal Toad for Review and Comment

Wetlands of the Crested Butte Region

Gunnison County Wilderness Alert

A Land Use Program for Colorado- A Report by the Colorado Land Use Commission

Species Studied Here

Two-form Bumble Bee

Bumble Bees

Yellow-fronted Bumble Bee

Golden-belted Bumble Bee

Buff-tailed Bumble Bee

Common Eastern Bumble Bee

Bombus

Bombus vagans

Bombus sylvicola

Barbey's Larkspur

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

Intraspecific body size variation across distributional moments reveals trait filtering processes

Climate mediates the trade-offs associated with phenotypic plasticity in an amphibian polyphenism

The Impact of Delphinium nuttallianum and Ipomopsis aggregata Phenology on Broad-tailed Hummingbird (Selasphorus platycercus) Visitation Patterns

Aquatic invertebrate communities in old, new, and re-formed beaver ponds in the Trail Creek watershed

Comparing floral morphology and inflorescence structure of Lupins argenteus and L. bakeri in sympatry and allopatry

Fit or Unlit: using quantum dots to investigate the effects of a floricolous yeast and nectar robbing on male fitness in Ipomopsis aggregata

The Impact of Delphinium nuttallianum and Ipomopsis aggregata Phenology on Broad tailed Hummingbird (Selasphorus platycercus) Visitation Patterns

Phenological drivers and consequences for solitary bees

Intraspecific body size variation across distributional moments reveals trait filtering processes

The hole truth: why do bumble bees rob flowers more than once?

The hole truth: why do bumble bees rob flowers more than once?

Contrasting short-and long-term outcomes of pairwise interactions between caddisflies at a hydrologically heterogeneous range margin

Limnephilus externus Case Grazing

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

Determining pollinator behavior differences bumblebees and flies.

Host specificity of hemiparasitic Castilleja and its influence on plant community diversity.

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

Consequences of climate-induced range expansions on multiple ecosystem functions

The role of environmental variation in mediating fitness trade-offs for an amphibian polyphenism

Evaluating 3 decades of precipitation in the Upper Colorado River basin from a high-resolution regional climate model

Predators balance consequences of climate-change-induced habitat shifts for range-shifting and resident species

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

Effects of Environmental Pond Drying Cues on Asynarchus nigriculus Cannibalism Rates

Mammalian herbivores restrict the altitudinal range limits of alpine plants