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Festuca brachyphylla (alpine fescue) — RMBL Knowledge Commons

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Festuca brachyphylla

Common names: alpine fescue

Taxonomy: Plantae > Tracheophyta > Magnoliopsida > Poales > Poaceae

Roles: habitat component

ITIS TSN: 40794

External: RMBL Collections · iNaturalist · iDigBio · GenBank

Papers: 5 | Mentions: 14

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Knowledge graph centered on Festuca brachyphylla with 78 nodes and 337 connections. Top connected: Ligusticum porteri, Potentilla, Bacteria, Populus tremuloides, Lupinus.

Publications (5)

Mammalian herbivores restrict the altitudinal range limits of alpine plants

2021Ecology LettersRole: text_match

Context dependent biotic interactions control plant abundance across altitudinal environmental gradients

2019EcographyRole: text_match

King of the hill? How biotic interactions affect biogeographical pattern and species responses to climate change

2019Role: text_match

Soil microbes that may accompany climate warming increase alpine plant production

2019OecologiaRole: text_match

How do above and belowground grass-fungus symbioses change over elevational gradients in mountainous Colorado?

2012Role: text_match

Documents (2)

environmental assessment

Vegetation Appendix Materials for Vegetation and Wildlife Studies for the Mount Emmons Project

environmental assessment

Vegetation and Wildlife Studies for the Mount Emmons Project

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Festuca

Poaceae14 shared papers

Elymus

Poaceae14 shared papers

Poa alpina

Poaceae13 shared papers

Thomomys talpoides

Geomyidae9 shared papers

Megascapheus bottae

Geomyidae8 shared papers

pocket gophers

8 shared papers

Odocoileus hemionus

Cervidae7 shared papers

chickens

7 shared papers

Ovis canadensis

Bovidae7 shared papers

All Chickens

7 shared papers