Festuca thurberi

Common names: montane grass, bunch grass, bunchgrasses, fescue, Thurber fescue, bunchgrass, Thurber's fescue

Authority: Vasey

Taxonomy: Plantae > Tracheophyta > Magnoliopsida > Poales > Poaceae

Roles: study subject, host plant, dominant species manipulation target, vegetation component, dominant graminoid, habitat species, habitat plant, habitat component, dominant cover type, indicator species, understory species, native vegetation, mentioned, associated vegetation

ITIS TSN: 40828

Synonyms: F. thurberi, Festuca, fescue, FESTHU, bunchgrass, FETH, Festuca spp., F. thurberis

External: RMBL Collections · iNaturalist · iDigBio · GenBank

Papers: 98 | Mentions: 131

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Publications (98)

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Depth of nutrient uptake by deep-rooted plants is regulated by water availability

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Experimental warming decouples plant-fungal symbiont interactions and leads to a more conservative ecosystem

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Warming disrupts plant–fungal endophyte symbiosis more severely in leaves than roots

2025Global Change BiologyRole: study subject

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Changes in insect population dynamics due to climate change

2024Effects of Climate Change on Insects: Physiological, Evolutionary, and Ecological ResponsesRole: text_match

Festuca thurberi

Local Knowledge Graph (Top 81 entities)

Publications (98)

Depth of nutrient uptake by deep-rooted plants is regulated by water availability

Experimental warming decouples plant-fungal symbiont interactions and leads to a more conservative ecosystem

Warming disrupts plant–fungal endophyte symbiosis more severely in leaves than roots

Changes in insect population dynamics due to climate change

Effect of Nitrogen on Linaria vulgaris and Native Species

Getting to the Root of It: Effects of Castilleja Root Hemiparasitism on Plant Community Structure and Function

Variation in interaction zone size and influence of sex on fitness components of Valeriana edulis

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

Documents (21)

1980

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

An Illustrated Guide to the Proposed Threatened and Endangered Plant Species in Colorado

Baseline soil inventory Mount Emmons Project Gunnison, Colorado

Burning Project on Upper Slopes

Colorado Ranch Management School (Part 5)

Company Sponsored Research- Camp Dresser and McKee Inc

Determination of Annual Forage Production

Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Designation of Critical Habitat for Ipomopsis polyantha (Pagosa skyrocket), Penstemon debilis (Parachute beardtongue), and Phacelia submutica (DeBeque phacelia)

Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Determination of Endangered Status for Ipomopsis polyantha (Pagosa Skyrocket) and Threatened Status for Penstemon debilis (Parachute Beardtongue) and Phacelia submutica (DeBeque Phacelia)

Co-occurring Species

Festuca

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Artemisia tridentata

Potentilla pulcherrima

Potentilla

Potentilla hippiana

Erigeron speciosus

Artemisia

Erigeron

Bromus

Herbivory damage but not plant disease under experimental warming is dependent on weather for three subalpine grass species

Sage-Grouse

Virus diversity and activity is driven by snowmelt and host dynamics in a high-altitude watershed soil ecosystem

Effects of an introduced mustard, Thlaspi arvense, on soil fungal communities in subalpine meadows

Intraspecific Variation in Responses of a Montane Grass, <i> Festuca thurberi </i>, to Simulated Biological Invasion

Nest Distribution of <i> Bombus </i> spp. Across Different Habitat Types

Plant removal across an elevational gradient marginally reduces rates, substantially reduces variation in mineralization

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

From the ground up: Building predictions for how climate change will affect belowground mutualisms, floral traits, and bee behavior

Mammalian herbivores restrict the altitudinal range limits of alpine plants

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

Low predictability of energy balance traits and leaf temperature metrics in desert, montane and alpine plant communities

Small spaces, big impacts: contributions of micro-environmental variation to population persistence under climate change

TRY plant trait database - enhanced coverage and open access

The Snowmelt Niche Differentiates Three Microbial Life Strategies That Influence Soil Nitrogen Availability During and After Winter

Altitudinal gradients fail to predict fungal symbiont responses to warming

Context dependent biotic interactions control plant abundance across altitudinal environmental gradients

Does road dust affect growth rates in <i>Ipomopsis aggregata</i>?

Fungal colonization of plant roots is resistant to nitrogen addition and resilient to dominant species losses

Identifying the Impact of Biotic Interactions on Meadow Species Distributions in Sagebrush and Bunchgrass Dominated Systems

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

Plant Identity Influences Foliar Fungal Symbionts More Than Elevation in the Colorado Rocky Mountains

Pollinator mediated reproductive consequences of altered co-flowering under climate change depend on abiotic context

Predator and prey species have opposing responses to recreational trail use

Soil microbes that may accompany climate warming increase alpine plant production

Surveying historical patterns in vegetation change (1929-2019) in the upper East River Valley using RMBL's archival herbarium records

The Direct and Interactive Effects of Warming and Species Interaction on Plant Functional Traits

Effects of Light Availability on Aspen Understory Species

First-order controls of soil and leaf moisture

Plant dominance in a subalpine montane meadow: biotic vs. abiotic controls of subordinate diversity within and across sites

Aboveground resilience to species loss but belowground resistance to nitrogen addition in a montane plant community

Assessing Plant Community Assembly Along an Elevational Gradient: A Functional Niche Hypervolume Approach

Biotic and abiotic drivers of plant symbionts determine plant performance, the maintenance of diversity, and response to global change

Effects of Microclimate on the regeneration of Quaking Aspens, <i>Populus tremuloides</i>

How does experimental warming effect the rate of herbivory and fungi on host grasses?

Identifying targets and agents of selection: Innovative methods to evaluate the processes that contribute to local adaptation

Intraspecific variation in traits reduces ability of trait-based models to predict community structure

Correlation of leaf and community traits and various spectra in meadows along an elevation gradient

Effects of experimental warming on herbivory and fungal pathogen load on subalpine grasses

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

Productivity of Montane Meadows in a Warming World: Evidence from an Elevation Gradient and a Warming Experiment

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

The future of plant-fungal symbioses along elevational gradients

Understanding how leaf endophytes are affected by climate change: Examining fungi in grass species with warming

Convergent ecosystem responses to 23-year ambient and manipulated warming link advancing snowmelt and shrub encroachment to transient and long-term climateâ€“soil carbon feedback

Effects of experimental warming on herbivory and pathogen loads on subalpine grass species Festuca thurberi, Poa pratensis, and Achnatherum lettermanii

How do distributions of belowground grass-fungal symbioses change over altitudinal gradients in the Colorado Rocky Mountains?