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Mt. Baldy — RMBL Knowledge Commons

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Mt. Baldy

Part of: Elk range

Scale: site

Coordinates: 38.9787, -107.0421

Habitat: alpine, treeline ecotone

Papers: 6 | Mentions: 8

Child Places (1)

Gothic-Baldy Saddle

study site1 papers

Publications (6)

Alpine plant spatial clumping modifies leaf surface temperature

2025primary study site

Alpine plants of Mt. Baldy: modeling phenology and documenting biodiversity

2025primary study site

What are parasitoid wasps visiting Helianthella quinquenervis targeting, and could they influence plant fitness and reproduction?

2024reference location

How Spatial Variation Affects Plant Phenology

2020primary study site

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

2018secondary site

Reconstruction and spatial analysis of alpine treeline in the Elk Mountains, Colorado, USA

2016Physical Geographyprimary study site

Datasets (2)

Annually collected demography data from an alpine plant community on Mt. Baldy, Colorado (38.978725°N, 107.042104°W, ~3540 masl).

Plant census and microenvironment dataset from Mt. Baldy, Colorado, USA, 2014-2017

Species Studied Here

Rosaceae

Rosaceae3 shared papers

Engelmann Spruce

Pinaceae3 shared papers

Senecio bigelovii

Asteraceae3 shared papers

Senecio species

Asteraceae3 shared papers

Senecio crassulus

Asteraceae3 shared papers

Senecio

Asteraceae3 shared papers

Abies lasiocarpa

Pinaceae2 shared papers

Noccaea fendleri

Brassicaceae2 shared papers

Helianthella quinquenervis

Asteraceae2 shared papers

Nuttall's Larkspur

Ranunculaceae2 shared papers