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Helianthella

Taxonomy: Plantae > Tracheophyta > Magnoliopsida > Asterales > Asteraceae

Regional status: native

Roles: study subject

ITIS TSN: 37592

Synonyms: Helianthella spp.

External: RMBL Collections · iNaturalist · iDigBio · GenBank

Papers: 137 | Mentions: 145

Local Knowledge Graph (Top 77 entities)

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Publications (137)

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Fitness costs and benefits of a non-native floral resource for subalpine solitary bees

2025OikosRole: text_match

student_paper

Quantifying ethanol in bumble bee honey and Colorado rocky mountain wildflowers

2025Role: text_match

article

Responses to climate change – insights and limitations from herbaceous plant model species

2025New PhytologistRole: text_match

student_paper

Temperature and relative humidity effects on nectar quantity, nectar quality, and plant-pollinator interactions

2025Role: text_match

student_paper

The effect of changing floral density on pollinator networks in a subalpine meadow environment

2025Role: text_match

student_paper

Effect of Nitrogen on Linaria vulgaris and Native Species

2024Role: study subject

student_paper

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

2024Role: text_match

student_paper

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

Documents (1)

environmental assessment

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

Co-occurring Species

2024Role: text_match

student_paper

The effects of elevation on flower abundance and pollinator visits on Helianthella quinquenervis

2024Role: text_match

student_paper

What are parasitoid wasps visiting Helianthella quinquenervis targeting, and could they influence plant fitness and reproduction?

2024Role: text_match

student_paper

Determining pollinator behavior differences bumblebees and flies.

2023Role: text_match

student_paper

Do pollinator and plant diversity vary with microclimate heterogeneity?

2023Role: text_match

student_paper

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

2023Role: text_match

article

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

2022Fungal EcologyRole: text_match

student_paper

Environmental and Genetic Effects of Elevation on Plant Defense

2022Role: text_match

article

Habitat selection in a fluctuating ground squirrel population: Density - dependence and fitness consequences

2022Ecology and EvolutionRole: text_match

article

Removing flowers of a generalist plant changes pollinator visitation, composition, and interaction network structure

2022EcosphereRole: text_match

thesis

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

2022Role: text_match

student_paper

Sweet and salty: Pollinators and sodium-enriched nectar

2022Role: text_match

article

Can flowers affect land surface albedo and soil microclimates?

2021International Journal of BiometeorologyRole: text_match

student_paper

Effects of soil moisture and temperature on plant palatability and herbivore plant preference

2021Role: text_match

article

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

2021Climate Change EcologyRole: text_match

student_paper

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

2021Role: text_match

article

Lagged and dormant season climate better predict plant vital rates than climate during the growing season

2021Global Change BiologyRole: text_match

student_paper

Tests for Elevational Gradients in Herbivore Abundance and Plant Resistance in the Rocky Mountain Ecosystem

2021Role: text_match

student_paper

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

2021Role: text_match

article

Are ants botanists? Ant associative learning of plant chemicals mediates foraging for carbohydrates

2020Ecological EntomologyRole: text_match

thesis

Behavioral and spatial dynamics in a fluctuating population of golden-mantled ground squirrels (Callospermophilus lateralis)

2020Role: text_match

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Birds Perceive More Intraspecific Color Variation in Bird-Pollinated Than Bee-Pollinated Flowers

2020Frontiers in Plant Science. doi 10.3389/fpls.2020.590347Role: text_match

article

Effects of climate change on alpine plants and their pollinators

2020Annals of the New York Academy of SciencesRole: text_match

student_paper

Effects of frost and neighborhood on Tephritid fly herbivory of Erigeron speciosus

2020Role: text_match

student_paper

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

2020Role: text_match

article

Temporal flexibility in the structure of plant–pollinator interaction networks

2020OikosRole: text_match

thesis

Adaptation and diversification of bluebells Mertensia spp., Boranginaceae

2019Role: text_match

article

Comparing predictive measures and model functions for estimating plant biomass: lessons from a sagebrush–rabbitbrush community

2019Plant EcologyRole: text_match

article

Early snowmelt projected to cause population decline in a subalpine plant

2019PNASRole: text_match

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

2019EcosphereRole: text_match

student_paper

Low to Mid Elevational Resurvey of Bumble bee Distributions in Response to Climate Change

2019Role: text_match

student_paper

Niche breadth changes in response to environmental perturbation: the impact of early snowmelt on subalpine plant-pollinator specialization

2019Role: text_match

article

Plant chemical mediation of ant behavior

2019Current Opinion in Insect ScienceRole: text_match

article

Progressive sensitivity of trophic levels to warming underlies an elevational gradient in ant–aphid mutualism strength

2019OikosRole: text_match

student_paper

Quantifying Nectar Resources in Bumble Bee Visited Plants

2019Role: text_match

article

Reproductive losses due to climate change? Induced earlier flowering are not the primary threat to plant population viability in a perennial herb

2019Journal of EcologyRole: text_match

student_paper

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

2019Role: text_match

thesis

The effects of climate change and biodiversity loss on mutualisms

2019Role: text_match

student_paper

Are ants botanists?: Ant associative learning of plant volatiles

2018Role: text_match

student_paper

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

2018Role: text_match

thesis

Conditional Exploitation and Context-Dependent Fitness Consequences of Pollination Mutualisms

2018http://hdl.handle.net/10150/628436Role: text_match

thesis

Effects of Climate Change on Plants, Pollinators and Their Interactions

2018Role: text_match

student_paper

Effects of Light Availability on Aspen Understory Species

2018Role: text_match

article

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

2018PeerJRole: text_match

student_paper

The Effect of Climate Change on Plant Communities in the Rocky Mountains: How floral traits differ along an elevational gradient and in reciprocally transplanted communities

2018Role: text_match

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

2017Journal of Plant EcologyRole: text_match

thesis

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

2017Role: text_match

student_paper

Floral Albedo as a Response Factor of Climate Change, A case study in Helianthella quinquenervis

2017Role: text_match

article

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

2017Journal of Vegetation ScienceRole: text_match

student_paper

Neighborhood Influence on Plant Interactions with Seed-Eating Flies and Pollinating Bees

2017Role: text_match

student_paper

The Effect of Dominant Floral Resource Removal on Plant-Pollinator Interactions

2017Role: text_match

student_paper

The ability of ants to associatively learn based on olfactory chemical cues produced by plants.

2017Role: text_match

chapter

Variation in Undisturbed Plant and Animal Populations and Its Implications for Studies of Recovering Ecosystems

2017Role: text_match

student_paper

Effects of Helianthella quinquenervis Extrafloral Nectaries on Ant Abundance and Community Structure

2016Role: text_match

student_paper

Effects of Insect Damage to Helianthella quinquenervis (Asteraceae) Inflorescences on Pollinator Visitation

2016Role: text_match

article

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

2016EcosphereRole: text_match

thesis

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

2016Role: text_match

student_paper

Mutualistic Networks Over Time: The Effects of Changing Floral Abundances on Plant- Pollinator Interactions

2016Role: text_match

thesis

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

2016Role: text_match

thesis

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

2016Role: text_match

student_paper

The Changing Floral Color Landscape Across an Alpine Elevation Gradient

2016Role: text_match

student_paper

Fungal Phytopathogens Decrease Plant-Insect Interactions.

2015Role: text_match

student_paper

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

2014Role: text_match

article

Coyotes, deer, and wildflowers: diverse evidence points to a trophic cascade

2014NaturwissenschaftenRole: text_match

article

Empirical tests of withinâ€and acrossâ€species energetics in a diverse plant community

2014EcologyRole: text_match

student_paper

Experimental examination of early snowmelt-induced water stress in Helianthella quinquenervis: effects on demographic vital rates

2014Role: text_match

student_paper

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

2013Role: text_match

student_paper

Does ant usage vary between the plants Ligusticum porteri and Helianthella quinquenervis?

2013Role: text_match

student_paper

Measuring the influence of phylogenetic relationships on floral visitation

2013Role: text_match

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Phenology: An Integrative Environmental Science

2013Role: text_match

student_paper

Quantifying the effects of pollen load and heterospecific pollen ratio on the species Delphinium barbeyi (Ranunculaceae)

2013Role: text_match

student_paper

Won't you be my neighbor: neighborhood effect influences mycorrhizal and endophyte colonization

2013Role: text_match

student_paper

"With a little help from my friends": Phylogenetic distance as a predictor of floral visitation in the plant communities of Gothic, CO.

2012Role: text_match

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A single climate driver has direct and indirect effects on insect population dynamics

2012Ecology LettersRole: text_match

thesis

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

2012Role: text_match

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An examination of synchrony between insect emergence and flowering in Rocky Mountain meadows

2011Ecological MonographsRole: text_match

student_paper

Effects of species composition change under experimental warming on soil microclimate in a montane meadow

2011Role: text_match

student_paper

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

2011Role: text_match

article

Beyond biomass: measuring the effects of community-level nitrogen enrichment on floral traits, pollinator visitation and plant reproduction

2010J of EcologyRole: text_match

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Changes in snowmelt date and summer precipitation affect the flowering phenology of Erythronium grandiflorum (Glacier Lily; Liliaceae)

2010American Journal of BotanyRole: text_match

thesis

Plant–Pollinator interactions in a changing climate

2010Role: text_match

student_paper

The effect of an introduced predator scent on mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) browsing activities in meadow habitats in Gothic, Colorado

2010Role: text_match

student_paper

Determining Long-Term Success of Revegetation Efforts in Disturbed Sites

2009Role: text_match

student_paper

Helianthella quinquernervis ray floret removal: effect on insect visitation frequency

2009Role: text_match

student_paper

Is there a positive correlation between bee size and size parameters of the flowers the bees visit for pollen to provision their nests?

2009Role: text_match

student_paper

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

2009Role: text_match

student_paper

Possible influence of altitude, geographical distance between sites and annual precipitation rates on species richness

2009Role: text_match

student_paper

Protection at a price? Ant interactions with pollinators on aspen sunflower (Helianthella quinquenervis)

2009Role: text_match

student_paper

Species richness along an elevational gradient

2009Role: text_match

article

The importance of interannual variation and bottom-up nitrogen enrichment for plant-pollinator networks

2009OikosRole: text_match

student_paper

The response of four subalpine forbs to supplemental nitrogen within different soil moisture environments

2009Role: text_match

thesis

Bottom-up effects of nutrient enrichment on plants, pollinators, and their interactions

2008Role: text_match

article

Effects of climate change on phenology, frost damage, and floral abundance of montane wildflowers

2008EcologyRole: text_match

thesis

Reciprocal benefits in a plant-pollinator mutualism

2008Role: text_match

student_paper

Changing distributions, changing climate: Using Bombus as an indicator of global warming near Crested Butte, Colorado

2007Role: text_match

article

Compensatory responses to loss of warming-sensitive plant species

2007EcologyRole: text_match

student_paper

Pollination subsidies between wetland and dry meadow habitats

2007Role: text_match

article

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

2007New PhytologistRole: text_match

student_paper

The effect of ants on membracid nymph size and instar

2007Role: text_match

student_paper

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

2006Role: text_match

article

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

2006Evolutionary EcologyRole: text_match

thesis

Ecosystem responses to warming-induced plant species loss and increased nitrogen availability in a Rocky Mountain subalpine meadow

2006Role: text_match

other

Shifts in plant dominance control short and long-term carbon-cycle responses to widespread drought

2006Role: text_match

student_paper

The Effects of Soil Nitrogen Availability on Plant Reproduction and Solitary Bee Behavior

2006Role: text_match

student_paper

Antipredatory response of mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) to predator urines

2005Role: text_match

student_paper

Impacts of Mule Deer Herbivory on Herbaceous Vegetation in the Gothic Area, with Focus on Aquilegia coerulea

2005Role: text_match

article

In situ photosynthetic freezing tolerance for plants exposed to a global warming manipulation in the Rocky Mountains, Colorado, USA

2004New PhytologistRole: text_match

article

Impact of the Western Thatching Ant (Formica obscuripes) on

2004URBEERole: text_match

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Response of plant pathogens and herbivores to a warming experiment

2004EcologyRole: text_match

thesis

The structure of plant-pollinator interactions in montane meadow environments

2004Role: text_match

article

Observations on plant choice by foraging yellow-bellied marmots

2003Oecologia MontanaRole: text_match

article

Subalpine meadow flowering phenology responses to climate change: integrating experimental and gradient methods

2003Ecological MonographsRole: text_match

article

Plant community composition mediates both large transient decline and predicted long-term recovery of soil carbon under climate warming

2002Global Biogeochemical CyclesRole: text_match

article

Assessing the quality of different ant species as partners of a myrmecophilous butterfly

2001OecologiaRole: text_match

article

Control of litter decomposition in a subalpine meadow-sagebrush steppe ecotone under climate change

2001Ecological ApplicationsRole: text_match

student_paper

Plant resource allocation and herbivory for Helianthella quinquenervis (Asteraceae) over an elevational gradient

2001Role: text_match

article

Plant responses to experimental warming in a montane meadow

2001EcologyRole: text_match

student_paper

Helianthella-ant mutualism

1997Role: text_match

article

High-temperature tolerance of Artemisia tridentata and Potentilla gracilis under a climate change manipulation

1996OecologiaRole: text_match

student_paper

The ant/plant relationship of Formica and Helianthella

1996Role: text_match

student_paper

Equality found among ant protectors of Helianthella quinquenervis

1994Role: text_match

student_paper

Insect oviposition patterns in flowers of Helianthella quinquenervis

1993Role: text_match

student_paper

The role of extrafloral nectaries in seed predation of Helianthella quinquenervis: life without the ant

1992Role: text_match

student_paper

Seed protection by ants foraging on the extrafloral nectaries of the aspen sunflower, Helianthella quinquenervis

1989Role: text_match

student_paper

Evidence for the existence of a mutualistic relationship between Helianthella quinquenervis and ants

1984Role: text_match

article

The amino acids of extrafloral nectar from Helianthella quinquenervis (Asteraceae)

1980American Journal of BotanyRole: text_match

article

A temperate region plant-ant-seed predator system: consequences of extra-floral nectar secretion by Helianthella quinquenervis

1979EcologyRole: text_match

article

Aboveground productivity and floristic structure of a high subalpine herbaceous meadow

1979Arctic and Alpine ResearchRole: text_match

student_paper

Mutualism between ants and Helianthella

1974Role: text_match

student_paper

Relationship between ants and Helianthella

1973Role: text_match

Helianthella

Local Knowledge Graph (Top 77 entities)

Publications (137)

Fitness costs and benefits of a non-native floral resource for subalpine solitary bees

Quantifying ethanol in bumble bee honey and Colorado rocky mountain wildflowers

Responses to climate change – insights and limitations from herbaceous plant model species

Temperature and relative humidity effects on nectar quantity, nectar quality, and plant-pollinator interactions

The effect of changing floral density on pollinator networks in a subalpine meadow environment

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

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

Documents (1)

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

Co-occurring Species

Helianthella quinquenervis

Erigeron speciosus

Erigeron

Barbey's Larkspur

Potentilla gracilis

Potentilla pulcherrima

Potentilla

Nuttall's Larkspur

Potentilla hippiana

Larkspurs

The effects of elevation on flower abundance and pollinator visits on Helianthella quinquenervis

What are parasitoid wasps visiting Helianthella quinquenervis targeting, and could they influence plant fitness and reproduction?

Determining pollinator behavior differences bumblebees and flies.

Do pollinator and plant diversity vary with microclimate heterogeneity?

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

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

Environmental and Genetic Effects of Elevation on Plant Defense

Habitat selection in a fluctuating ground squirrel population: Density - dependence and fitness consequences

Removing flowers of a generalist plant changes pollinator visitation, composition, and interaction network structure

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

Sweet and salty: Pollinators and sodium-enriched nectar

Can flowers affect land surface albedo and soil microclimates?

Effects of soil moisture and temperature on plant palatability and herbivore plant preference

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

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

Lagged and dormant season climate better predict plant vital rates than climate during the growing season

Tests for Elevational Gradients in Herbivore Abundance and Plant Resistance in the Rocky Mountain Ecosystem

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

Are ants botanists? Ant associative learning of plant chemicals mediates foraging for carbohydrates

Behavioral and spatial dynamics in a fluctuating population of golden-mantled ground squirrels (<i>Callospermophilus lateralis</i>)

Birds Perceive More Intraspecific Color Variation in Bird-Pollinated Than Bee-Pollinated Flowers

Effects of climate change on alpine plants and their pollinators

Effects of frost and neighborhood on Tephritid fly herbivory of <i>Erigeron speciosus</i>

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

Temporal flexibility in the structure of plant–pollinator interaction networks

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

Comparing predictive measures and model functions for estimating plant biomass: lessons from a sagebrush–rabbitbrush community

Early snowmelt projected to cause population decline in a subalpine plant

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

Low to Mid Elevational Resurvey of Bumble bee Distributions in Response to Climate Change

Niche breadth changes in response to environmental perturbation: the impact of early snowmelt on subalpine plant-pollinator specialization

Plant chemical mediation of ant behavior

Progressive sensitivity of trophic levels to warming underlies an elevational gradient in ant–aphid mutualism strength

Quantifying Nectar Resources in Bumble Bee Visited Plants

Reproductive losses due to climate change? Induced earlier flowering are not the primary threat to plant population viability in a perennial herb

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

The effects of climate change and biodiversity loss on mutualisms

Are ants botanists?: Ant associative learning of plant volatiles

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

Conditional Exploitation and Context-Dependent Fitness Consequences of Pollination Mutualisms

Effects of Climate Change on Plants, Pollinators and Their Interactions

Effects of Light Availability on Aspen Understory Species

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

The Effect of Climate Change on Plant Communities in the Rocky Mountains: How floral traits differ along an elevational gradient and in reciprocally transplanted communities

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

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

Floral Albedo as a Response Factor of Climate Change, A case study in <i>Helianthella quinquenervis</i>

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

Neighborhood Influence on Plant Interactions with Seed-Eating Flies and Pollinating Bees

The Effect of Dominant Floral Resource Removal on Plant-Pollinator Interactions

The ability of ants to associatively learn based on olfactory chemical cues produced by plants.

Variation in Undisturbed Plant and Animal Populations and Its Implications for Studies of Recovering Ecosystems

Effects of <i>Helianthella quinquenervis</i> Extrafloral Nectaries on Ant Abundance and Community Structure

Effects of Insect Damage to <i>Helianthella quinquenervis</i> (Asteraceae) Inflorescences on Pollinator Visitation

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

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

Empirical tests of withinâ€and acrossâ€species energetics in a diverse plant community