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Aconitum — RMBL Knowledge Commons

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Aconitum

Taxonomy: Plantae > Tracheophyta > Magnoliopsida > Ranunculales > Ranunculaceae

Roles: study subject

ITIS TSN: 18411

External: RMBL Collections · iNaturalist · iDigBio · GenBank

Papers: 56 | Mentions: 60

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Knowledge graph centered on Aconitum with 75 nodes and 277 connections. Top connected: Hummingbird, Bombus, Resource partitioning in bumblebees: experimental , Ipomopsis, Ligusticum porteri.

Publications (56)

Improving plant DNA metabarcoding accuracy with ecological filters and Angiosperms353: Field and pollen microscopy validation

2025Applications in Plant SciencesRole: text_match

Picky eater? How different environmental factors affect broad-tailed hummingbirds’ (Selasphorus platycercus) foraging patterns in the Rocky Mountains

2025Role: text_match

Quantifying ethanol in bumble bee honey and Colorado rocky mountain wildflowers

2025Role: text_match

Testing the marginal value theorem on Bombus appositus and Bombus nevadensis

2025Role: text_match

How do Bombus appositus and Bombus bifarius worker tongue lengths vary within a season?

2024Role: text_match

Solitary bee genera differ in foraging activity timing and temperature; Evidence of a seasonal dietary shift in Hoplitis fulgida

2024Role: text_match

Differences in individual flowering time change pollen limitation and seed set in three montane wildflowers

2023American Journal of BotanyRole: text_match

The causes and consequences of pollen defence

Documents (4)

technical report

A Classification of the Riparian Vegetation of the Gunnison River Basin, Colorado

Moist Forests

environmental assessment

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

environmental assessment

Wetlands of the Crested Butte Region

Co-occurring Species

Delphinium

Ranunculaceae48 shared papers

Bombus

Apidae40 shared papers

Bombus terrestris

Apidae35 shared papers

Bombus appositus

Apidae34 shared papers

Aconitum columbianum

Ranunculaceae34 shared papers

Bombus impatiens

Apidae34 shared papers

B. rufocinctus

33 shared papers

Bombus vosnesenskii

Apidae33 shared papers

B. vosnesenskii

33 shared papers

B. appositus

33 shared papers

2023Role: study subject

The effects of environmental variation on daily abundance patterns and diet breadth of bumble bee species

2022Role: text_match

The Effect of Snowmelt Timing on Pollinator Visitation to Subalpine Wildflowers

2022Role: text_match

Nectar Variation in Simple and Compound Flowers; and its Effects on Plant Pollinator Interactions

2021Role: text_match

Nectar addition changes pollinator behavior but not plant reproduction in pollen rewarding <i> Lupinus argenteus</i>

2021American Journal of BotanyRole: text_match

Trade-off mitigation: a conceptual framework for understanding floral adaptation in multispecies interactions

2021Biological ReviewsRole: text_match

Quantifying Nectar Trait Responses to Natural Variation in Water Availability in Subalpine Plant Communities

2020Role: text_match

Adaptation and diversification of bluebells <i>Mertensia</i> spp., Boranginaceae

2019Role: text_match

Floral reward strategies, visitor behavior, and plant reproductive outcomes

2019Role: text_match

Quantifying Nectar Resources in Bumble Bee Visited Plants

2019Role: text_match

The individual and combined effects of snowmelt timing and frost exposure on the reproductive success of montane forbs

2019Journal of EcologyRole: text_match

Trap behavior of <i> Zonotrichia leucophrys oriantha </i> at different elevations in the West Elk Mountains, Colorado

2019Role: text_match

Characterizing nectar content in wet and dry subalpine meadows during an extreme summer drought

2018Role: text_match

Effects of Climate Change on Plants, Pollinators and Their Interactions

2018Role: text_match

Examining the impact of pollen diet composition on bee development and lifespan

2018Role: text_match

Does bumble bee (<i>Bombus spp.</i>) diet breadth vary with differences in floral resource abundance?

2017Role: text_match

Effects of <i>Didymosphenia germinata</i> on American Dipper (<i>Cinclus mexicanus</i>) Territory Size

2017Role: text_match

Facilitated exploitation of pollination mutualisms: fitness consequences for plants

2017Journal of EcologyRole: text_match

Bill Morphology and Niche Partitioning in <i>Selasphorus platycercus</i>

2016Role: text_match

Effects of Elevation on Trap Behavior in Mountain White-crowned Sparrows (<i>Zonotrichia leucophrys oriantha</i>)

2016Role: text_match

Effects of climate change on phenologies and distributions of bumble bees and the plants they visit

2016EcosphereRole: text_match

Impacts of early snow removal and frost on the reproductive success of <i>Delphinium nuttallianum</i>

2016Role: text_match

Temporal ecology of a subalpine ecosystem: Plant communities, plant-pollinator interactions, & climate change.

2016Role: text_match

The Changing Floral Color Landscape Across an Alpine Elevation Gradient

2016Role: text_match

Does Bumble Bee Diet Breadth vary with the Floral Abundance in a Meadow?

2015Role: text_match

Why doesn't nectar robbing decrease seed set in some bee-pollinated plants?

2015Role: text_match

Floral visitation determined by phylogenetic distance in the plant communities of Gothic, CO.

2014Role: text_match

Responses of high-altitude graminoids and fungal fungi to 20 years of experimental warming

2014EcologyRole: text_match

Stimulation of flower nectar replenishment by removal: a survey of eleven animal-pollinated plant species

2014Journal of Pollination EcologyRole: text_match

The Impact of Primary and Secondary Robbing on Hummingbird Pollination.

2014Role: text_match

How does altered phenology affect pollination and reproduction of <i>Delphinium nuttallianum</i>?

2013Role: text_match

The structure and function of subalpine ecosystems in the face of climate change

2012Role: text_match

Activity and abundance of bumble bees near Crested Butte, CO: diel, seasonal, and elevation effects

2011Ecological EntomologyRole: text_match

Spatial distribution of mule deer (<i>Odocoileus hemionus</i>): Effects of plant palatability and habitat structure

2011Role: text_match

Bumblebee foraging on vertical inflorescences: optimal or not?

2009Role: text_match

The effects of mine disturbance and contamination on pollination of subalpine wildflowers

2009Role: text_match

Pollination subsidies between wetland and dry meadow habitats

2007Role: text_match

Predicting the effects of nectar robbing on plant reproduction: implications of pollen limitation and plant mating system

2007American Journal of BotanyRole: text_match

Reproductive and physiological responses to simulated climate warming for four subalpine species

2007New PhytologistRole: text_match

Are native bees picky enough? The effect of an invasive plant, <i>Linaria vulgaris</i>, on the foraging of native bee pollinators

2006Role: text_match

The ecology of pollination and nectar robbing in Linaria vulgaris in the Colorado Rocky Mountains

2004TSpaceRole: text_match

Changes in flowering and abundance of <i>Delphinium nuttallianum</i> (Ranunculaceae) in response to a subalpine climate warming experiment

2003Global Change BiologyRole: text_match

Variation in nectar robbing over time, space, and species

2002OecologiaRole: text_match

Effects of Local Density on Pollination and Reproduction in <i>Delphinium nuttallianum</i> and <i>Aconitum columbianum</i> (Ranunculaceae)

1999American Journal of BotanyRole: text_match

A trade-off between the frequency and duration of bumblebee visits to flowers

1998OecologiaRole: text_match

The effect of inflorescence size on pollinator visitation of Delphinium nelsonii and Aconitum columbianum

1990Collectanea Botanica (Barcelona)Role: text_match

Foraging in bumblebees: rule of departure from an inflorescence

1982Canadian Journal of ZoologyRole: text_match

Resource partitioning in bumblebees: experimental studies of foraging behavior

1978EcologyRole: text_match

Bumblebee pollinators of <i>Aconitum columbianum</i> and <i>Delphinium barbeyi</i>

1974Role: text_match