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Wyethia amplexicaulis (mule's ears) — RMBL Knowledge Commons

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Wyethia amplexicaulis

Common names: mule's ears, Mules Ears

Taxonomy: Plantae > Tracheophyta > Magnoliopsida > Asterales > Asteraceae

Roles: habitat component, study subject

ITIS TSN: 38674

External: RMBL Collections · iNaturalist · iDigBio · GenBank

Papers: 29 | Mentions: 37

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Knowledge graph centered on Wyethia amplexicaulis with 78 nodes and 247 connections. Top connected: Ipomopsis, Ligusticum porteri, Delphinium, I. aggregata, Ipomopsis aggregata.

Publications (29)

Context dependence of warming induced shifts in montane soil microbial functions

2024Functional EcologyRole: text_match

Indirect effect of black bears on sunflowers in nitrogen-polluted and pristine steppe

2024Role: text_match

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

2023Role: text_match

Exploring the impact of climate change on soil carbon storage in montane meadows

2023Role: text_match

Integrating natural gradients, experiments, and statistical modeling in a distributed network experiment: An example from the WaRM Network

2022Ecology and EvolutionRole: study subject

Revealing the direct and indirect effects of climate change on soil nutrient dynamics and forage resources in mountain ecosystems

2022Role: habitat component

How does incorporating microclimate data into ecological niche models change our estimates of the climatic niche of vascular plant species?

2021Role: text_match

Documents (4)

management plan

"Schedule of Proposed Actions" for the Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre, and Gunnison National Forests.

Moist Forests

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

Co-occurring Species

Erigeron

Asteraceae19 shared papers

Artemisia

Asteraceae19 shared papers

Ligusticum porteri

Apiaceae18 shared papers

A. tridentata

17 shared papers

Artemisia tridentata

Asteraceae16 shared papers

Festuca

Poaceae13 shared papers

Potentilla

Rosaceae13 shared papers

Helianthella

Asteraceae13 shared papers

Asteraceae

Asteraceae13 shared papers

Festuca thurberi

Poaceae12 shared papers

Variation of Pollen Mass Across Species, Habitat Types, and Time

2021Role: text_match

Investigating alpine plant community responses to simulated warming and dominant species removal at a low and high elevation in the Colorado Rocky Mountains

2020Role: text_match

The Impact of Warming and Species Removal on Soil Respiration at Low and High Elevations

2020Role: text_match

Selection for early reproduction in the solitary bee <i>Hoplitis fulgida</i>

2017Role: text_match

Asteraceae pollen provisions protect <i>Osmia</i> mason bees (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae) from brood parasitism

2016American NaturalistRole: text_match

Individual variation in plant traits drives species interactions, ecosystem functioning, and responses to global change.

2016Role: study subject

The Effects of Ants on Ecosystem Dynamics: Investigating the Ecological Influence of Ant Nests in the Rocky Mountains

2016Role: text_match

Aboveground and belowground traits of dominant and sub-dominant species along an elevational gradient.

2014Role: text_match

Phenology of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal fungi and Dark Septate Endophytes across an elevation gradient.

2014Role: text_match

Plant Successional Changes Over 67 Years on the Gothic Earthflow.

2014Role: text_match

Chemical camouflage and the consequences of changing host plants in a treehopper-ant mutualism

2013Role: text_match

Ant presences alter plants: The impact <i>Formica obscuripes</i> presence on plants and soil micro-anthropod diversity

2011Role: text_match

Butterflies show flower colour preferences but not constancy in foraging at four plant species

2011Ecological EntomologyRole: text_match

The effects of hemiparasitism by <i> Castilleja</i> spp on community structure in alpine ecosystems

2011Role: text_match

Plant community composition with respect to species richness along an altitudinal gradient in gunnison county, co

2009Role: text_match

Species richness along an elevational gradient

2009Role: text_match

Flower preference and constancy in four butterfly species

2007Role: text_match

The effect of ants on membracid nymph size and instar

2007Role: text_match

Bottom-up mediation of an ant-membracid mutualism: effects from different host plants

2006Evolutionary EcologyRole: text_match

The timing of the ant-effect on nymph size and survivorship in an ant-treehopper mutualism

2006Role: text_match

Impact of the Western Thatching Ant (Formica obscuripes) on

2004URBEERole: text_match

Disruptive selection in flowering time of Wyethia amplexicaulis (Asteraceae)

1993Plant Species BiologyRole: text_match