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Research Plan
Climate effects on forest structure, dynamics and hydrologic function
Principal Investigator:
Lara Kueppers
Status:
active
Field:
Earth Systems Science
Research Areas:
Climate change; Landscape biology; Long-term research; Modeling; Plant biology
Items:
65 (54 publications, 5 datasets, 6 documents)
Publications (54)
Thesis
Forest carbon cycling along an elevation gradient: the influence of species and climate
2003
Article
Abiotic influences on continuous conifer forest structure across a subalpine watershed
2025
Remote Sensing of Environment
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2024.114587
Publication
A Brief Escape to Normalcy: A Summer at RMBL
2020
Mountain Views Chronicle
Article
Insight from Integration
2012
Nature
Article
Subalpine forest carbon cycling: Short- and long-term influence of climate and species
2005
Ecological Applications
DOI: 10.1890/04-1769
Article
Dead wood biomass and turnover time, measured by radiocarbon, along a subalpine elevation gradient
2004
Oecologia
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-004-1689-x
Student Paper
The variation in tree growth performance relative to a climate change along an elevation gradient
1998
Student Paper
Change in terrestrial vegetation and the relating consequences for stream communities
1995
Publication
Climate-ecosystem interactions in montane meadows
2002
Student Paper
Ecological report concerning the spruce-fir climax forest and related areas
1954
Student Paper
The ecological dynamics of alpine krummholz
1970
Book
Ecosystem Consequences of Soil Warming
2019
Student Paper
Effects of climatological factos on annual growth of shrubby species of the rocky mountains
2002
Thesis
Leaf venation networks link climate change to plant form and function
2014
Article
A meta-analysis of 1,119 manipulative experiments on terrestrial carbon-cycling responses to global change
2019
Nature Ecology & Evolutiion
DOI: 10.1038/s41559-019-0958-3
Thesis
Causes and consequences of plant responses to environmental change over physiological, ecological, and evolutionary time.
2015
Thesis
Climate change impacts on community and ecosystem properties: Integrating manipulations and gradient studies in montane meadows
2000
Student Paper
Climatic variability in the Gothic area based upon tree ring analysis
1971
Student Paper
Succession by conifers in aspen forests
1973
Thesis
Global climate change and ecosystem carbon storage: an experimental investigation of ecologically-mediated feedbacks to climate in montane meadows
1998
Student Paper
A report on aspen ecotones
1970
Student Paper
The response of aspen to invasion by a spruce-fir community
1987
Student Paper
Effects of avalanche intensity on <i>Populus tremuloides</i> density
1995
Student Paper
Floral succession in a spruce-fir forest
1971
Chapter
Dynamics of Lotic Ecosystems
1983
Student Paper
Herbivory patterns in response to climate change in a sub-alpine meadow
1998
Student Paper
Relationship of mist netting capture rates in aspen woods to levels of insolation, precipitation and temperature fluctuations
1982
Chapter
The Role of Arthropods in Forest Ecosystems
1977
Student Paper
The effects of drought on subalpine floral community diversity
2021
Student Paper
Report on disturbed and undisturbed aspen communities
1954
Chapter
Global Warming and Biodiversity
1992
Thesis
Global change implications of adaption to climatic variability
2010
Article
Changes in water relations for leaves exposed to a climate-warming manipulation in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado
1997
Environmental and Experimental Biology
DOI: 10.1016/s0098-8472(96)01043-x
Student Paper
The effect of aspen stand size on avian diversity
1985
Chapter
Global change and mountain regions
2005
Thesis
Effects of early snowmelt on plant phenophase timing and duration across an elevation gradient
2021
Student Paper
Relative Strengths of Spatial and Temporal Variation in Precipitation on Specific Leaf Area.
2014
Student Paper
Natural history of a talus/aspen grove ecotone
1975
Publication
Effects of frost on wildflowers: an unexpected consequence of climate change
2011
Publication
Topoclimatic habitat models
2000
Student Paper
Factors in the recovery of a disturbed sub-alpine site
1987
Student Paper
Trapping the litter: a negative feedback of climate change in the litter quality of montane vegetation in the Rocky Mountains
2008
Student Paper
The effect of sub-surface strata on ground cover
1940
Article
Gas exhange and water relations of two Rocky Mountain shrub species exposed to a climate change manipulation
2000
Plant Ecology
DOI: 10.1023/a:1009863201751
Chapter
Wildlife Responses to Climate Change: North American Case Studies
2001
Student Paper
Preferential Placement vs. Selective Mortality of Aspen Ramets in Canopy and Canopy Gap
1999
Article
Phenology of high-altitude climates
2013
Phenology: An Integrative Environmental Science
Student Paper
A comparison of vegetational maturity and succession rates in an avalanche area
1996
Thesis
Effects of microclimate, dispersal, species interactions, and environmental stochasticity on demography
2023
Student Paper
A comparative population study of an avalanche site and the neighboring standing forest
1993
Showing 50 of 54 publications
Datasets (5)
Dataset
Data from: Size-related scaling of tree form and function in a mixed-age forest
2016
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.6nc8c
Dataset
Plant height and species information
2017
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.772h7/2
Dataset
Forrest_HOBO_data_May2013-Dec2016
2018
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.r2dm56s/10
Dataset
Trembling aspen (Populus tremuloides) water potentials from clones with varying aspect and understory composition
2025
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17064802
Dataset
Data from: Landscape pivot points and responses to water balance in national parks of the southwest U.S.
2019
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.8h5h762
Documents (6)
Document
Riparian Restoration Using Hydrologic Manipulation and Physical Disturbance
Document
Moist Forests
Document
Forest Plan for 15 Plus Years
Document
A Multilevel Analysis of Production Capabilities of the National Forest System
Document
Beaver Management in Grazed Riparian Ecosystems
Document
Beavers: Biologists "Rediscover" a Natural Resource