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Taraxacum

Common names: Dandelion

Taxonomy: Plantae > Tracheophyta > Magnoliopsida > Asterales > Asteraceae

Regional status: unknown

Roles: study subject

ITIS TSN: 36199

Synonyms: Taraxacum spp.

External: RMBL Collections · iNaturalist · iDigBio · GenBank

Papers: 88 | Mentions: 100

Local Knowledge Graph (Top 78 entities)

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Publications (88)

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Does rainfall or temperature influence antipredator vigilance in a hibernating mammal?

2025Behavioral EcologyRole: text_match

article

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

2025OikosRole: text_match

article

Temperature influences pollinators' choice of floral partners independently of community composition

2025Journal of Animal EcologyRole: text_match

student_paper

The effects of drought on wildflower size and seed set

2025Role: text_match

student_paper

Effect of Nitrogen on Linaria vulgaris and Native Species

2024Role: study subject

student_paper

Effects of trophic phenological synchrony or dyssynchrony on maternal investment of a small herbivorous mammal (Callospermophilus lateralis)

2024Role: text_match

student_paper

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

2024Role: text_match

student_paper

Do dandelions compete with native plants for pollinator visits?

Documents (10)

technical report

1980

technical report

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

technical report

Department Of Energy Compliance With Floodplain – Wetlands Environmental Review Requirements

environmental assessment

Draft Environmental Impact Statement

environmental assessment

Draft: Environmental Assessment of the Proposed Remedial Action at the Gunnison Uranium Mill Tailings Site

Document

Homestake Mining Company Pitch Project Environmental Statement

Document

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

environmental assessment

Wetlands of the Crested Butte Region

Co-occurring Species

2023

Role: 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

student_paper

Host specificity of hemiparasitic Castilleja and its influence on plant community diversity.

2023Role: text_match

student_paper

How season length and diet breadth limit mason bee success across an elevational gradient

2023Role: text_match

student_paper

Habitat Quality Affecting the Body Mass of Golden-mantled Ground Squirrels

2022Role: text_match

article

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

2022Ecology and EvolutionRole: text_match

article

Novel host unmasks heritable variation in plant preference within an insect population

2022EvolutionRole: 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

article

The shifting importance of abiotic and biotic factors across the life cycles of wild pollinators

2022Journal of Animal EcologyRole: text_match

article

Bridging animal personality with space use and resource use in a free-ranging population of an asocial ground squirrel

2021Animal BehaviourRole: text_match

student_paper

Comparison of Drought Response between Taraxacum officinale and Delphinium nuttallianum

2021Role: text_match

article

Experimental Test of the Combined Effects of Water Availability and Flowering Time on Pollinator Visitation and Seed Set

2021Frontiers of Ecology & EvolutionRole: text_match

thesis

The effects of anthropogenic change on pollination in plant-pollinator communities

2021Role: text_match

article

Understanding Organismal Capacity to Respond to Anthropogenic Change: Barriers and Solutions

2021Integrative and Comparative BiologyRole: text_match

thesis

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

2020Role: text_match

student_paper

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

article

Pollinator visitation rate and effectiveness vary with flowering phenology

2020American Journal of BotanyRole: 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

thesis

Climate change, phenological shifts, and species interactions: Case studies in subalpine plant and migratory fish populations

2019Role: text_match

article

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

2019Plant EcologyRole: 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

student_paper

Quantifying Nectar Resources in Bumble Bee Visited Plants

2019Role: 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

student_paper

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

2019Role: text_match

thesis

The persistent maladaptation of Pieris macdunnoughii: Constraints on adaptation to an evolutionary trap

2019Role: text_match

thesis

Effects of Climate Change on Plants, Pollinators and Their Interactions

2018Role: text_match

thesis

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

2018Role: text_match

student_paper

Effects of Climate Changes on Ecologically Important Bees and Flowers

2017Role: text_match

article

Interaction rewiring and the rapid turnover of plant-pollinator networks

2017Ecology LettersRole: text_match

article

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

2017Journal of Vegetation ScienceRole: text_match

thesis

Plant-Pollinator Interactions and Environmental Change: Effects of Experimental Changes in Phenology and Water Availability on a Montane Wildflower

2017Role: text_match

student_paper

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

2016Role: study subject

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

Effects of early snowmelt and frost on plant-pollinator interactions.

2015Role: text_match

thesis

The evolutionary ecology of ultraviolet floral pigmentation

2015Role: text_match

article

Aspen (Populus tremuloides) stand dynamics and understory plant community changes over 46 years near Crested Butte, Colorado, USA

2014Forest Ecology and ManagementRole: text_match

student_paper

Competitive hierarchy or niche packing? An examination of the effects of competition on community.

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

Plant Successional Changes Over 67 Years on the Gothic Earthflow.

2014Role: text_match

student_paper

Pocket gopher activity across elevation gradients.

2014Role: text_match

article

Pollen allelopathy: Taraxacum officinale pollen depresses seed set of montane wildflowers

2014Journal of Pollination EcologyRole: text_match

article

Revisiting Darwin's hypothesis: Does greater intraspecific variability increase species' ecological breadth?

2014American Journal of BotanyRole: text_match

thesis

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

2012Role: text_match

student_paper

A comparative study of plant species diversity on three historic mining sites

2011Role: text_match

student_paper

Intraspecific variation of specific leaf area along an elevational gradient

2011Role: text_match

student_paper

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

2011Role: text_match

student_paper

Testing predictions of the coexistence of golden-mantled ground squirrels, Spermophilus lateralis, and least chipmunks, Tamias minimus, in meadows with various distances from cover

2011Role: text_match

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Consequences of variation in flowering time within and among individuals of Mertensia fusiformis (Boraginaceae), an early spring wildflower

2010Amer J of BotanyRole: text_match

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Photosynthetic and growth responses of reciprocal hybrids to variation in water and nitrogen availability

2010American Journal of BotanyRole: text_match

thesis

Plant–Pollinator interactions in a changing climate

2010Role: text_match

student_paper

Testing the predictions of the Maximum Information Entropy Theory for abundance and energy distributions on the Gothic earthflow

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

A test of species-area theory on a high disturbance area of the Gothic earthflow

2009Role: text_match

student_paper

Determining Long-Term Success of Revegetation Efforts in Disturbed Sites

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

Species richness along an elevational gradient

2009Role: text_match

student_paper

Species richness along elevation gradient and possible correlation factors

2009Role: text_match

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

2009OikosRole: text_match

student_paper

Water-use efficiency may influence the distribution of Ipomopsis aggregata, I. tenuituba, and their natural hybrids along an environmental gradient

2009Role: text_match

thesis

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

2008Role: text_match

thesis

Reciprocal benefits in a plant-pollinator mutualism

2008Role: 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

thesis

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

2006Role: text_match

student_paper

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

2005Role: text_match

student_paper

DOES LINARIA VULGARIS, AN INVASIVE, INTERFERE WITH THE POLLINATION OF THE NATIVE SPECIES, POTENTILLA PULCHERRIMA?

2004Role: text_match

student_paper

The Effects of Distance From a Yellow-Bellied Marmot Burrow on Plant Diversity

2004Role: text_match

thesis

The structure of plant-pollinator interactions in montane meadow environments

2004Role: text_match

article

Effects of food addition on life history of yellow-bellied marmots

2003Oecologia MontanaRole: text_match

article

Individual differences and reproductive success in yellow-bellied marmots

2003Ethology Ecology and EvolutionRole: text_match

article

Observations on plant choice by foraging yellow-bellied marmots

2003Oecologia MontanaRole: text_match

article

The effect of food supplementation on juvenile growth and survival in Marmota flaviventris

2003Journal of MammalogyRole: text_match

article

Seed Dispersal by Ants in the Rocky Mountains

1983Southwestern NaturalistRole: text_match

student_paper

Reproductive strategies in Taraxacum officinale

1973Role: text_match

article

Barriers to gene flow in natural populations of grasshoppers. II. Maintenance of narrow hybrid-zones between morphs of Arphia conspersa on Black Mesa, Colorado

1971PsycheRole: text_match

student_paper

A study of plant succession on the Gothic earthflow

1969Role: text_match

article

Food habits of two sympatric Colorado sciurids

1966Journal of MammalogyRole: text_match

Taraxacum

Local Knowledge Graph (Top 78 entities)

Publications (88)

Does rainfall or temperature influence antipredator vigilance in a hibernating mammal?

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

Temperature influences pollinators' choice of floral partners independently of community composition

The effects of drought on wildflower size and seed set

Effect of Nitrogen on Linaria vulgaris and Native Species

Effects of trophic phenological synchrony or dyssynchrony on maternal investment of a small herbivorous mammal (Callospermophilus lateralis)

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

Do dandelions compete with native plants for pollinator visits?

Documents (10)

1980

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

Department Of Energy Compliance With Floodplain – Wetlands Environmental Review Requirements

Draft Environmental Impact Statement

Draft: Environmental Assessment of the Proposed Remedial Action at the Gunnison Uranium Mill Tailings Site

Homestake Mining Company Pitch Project Environmental Statement

Moist Forests

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

Vegetation and Wildlife Studies for the Mount Emmons Project

Wetlands of the Crested Butte Region

Co-occurring Species

Taraxacum officinale

Potentilla gracilis

Potentilla

Potentilla pulcherrima

Potentilla hippiana

Erigeron speciosus

Erigeron

Barbey's Larkspur

Nuttall's Larkspur

Larkspurs

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

Host specificity of hemiparasitic Castilleja and its influence on plant community diversity.

How season length and diet breadth limit mason bee success across an elevational gradient

Habitat Quality Affecting the Body Mass of Golden-mantled Ground Squirrels

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

Novel host unmasks heritable variation in plant preference within an insect population

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

The shifting importance of abiotic and biotic factors across the life cycles of wild pollinators

Bridging animal personality with space use and resource use in a free-ranging population of an asocial ground squirrel

Comparison of Drought Response between <i> Taraxacum officinale </i> and <i> Delphinium nuttallianum </i>

Experimental Test of the Combined Effects of Water Availability and Flowering Time on Pollinator Visitation and Seed Set

The effects of anthropogenic change on pollination in plant-pollinator communities

Understanding Organismal Capacity to Respond to Anthropogenic Change: Barriers and Solutions

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

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

Pollinator visitation rate and effectiveness vary with flowering phenology

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

Climate change, phenological shifts, and species interactions: Case studies in subalpine plant and migratory fish populations

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

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

Quantifying Nectar Resources in Bumble Bee Visited Plants

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

The persistent maladaptation of <i>Pieris macdunnoughii</i>: Constraints on adaptation to an evolutionary trap

Effects of Climate Change on Plants, Pollinators and Their Interactions

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

Effects of Climate Changes on Ecologically Important Bees and Flowers

Interaction rewiring and the rapid turnover of plant-pollinator networks

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

Plant-Pollinator Interactions and Environmental Change: Effects of Experimental Changes in Phenology and Water Availability on a Montane Wildflower

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

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

The Changing Floral Color Landscape Across an Alpine Elevation Gradient

Effects of early snowmelt and frost on plant-pollinator interactions.

The evolutionary ecology of ultraviolet floral pigmentation

Aspen (<i>Populus tremuloides</i>) stand dynamics and understory plant community changes over 46 years near Crested Butte, Colorado, USA

Competitive hierarchy or niche packing? An examination of the effects of competition on community.

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

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

Plant Successional Changes Over 67 Years on the Gothic Earthflow.

Pocket gopher activity across elevation gradients.

Pollen allelopathy: Taraxacum officinale pollen depresses seed set of montane wildflowers

Revisiting Darwin's hypothesis: Does greater intraspecific variability increase species' ecological breadth?

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

A comparative study of plant species diversity on three historic mining sites

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