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Poa pratensis (Kentucky Bluegrass) — RMBL Knowledge Commons

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Poa pratensis

Common names: Kentucky Bluegrass, Bluegrass, Kentucky, Kentucky bluegrass

Taxonomy: Plantae > Tracheophyta > Magnoliopsida > Poales > Poaceae

Roles: study subject, habitat component, managed species, invasive

ITIS TSN: 41088

External: RMBL Collections · iNaturalist · iDigBio · GenBank

Papers: 33 | Mentions: 49

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Publications (33)

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

2024Role: text_match

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

2023Role: text_match

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

2023Journal of Animal EcologyRole: text_match

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

2023Role: text_match

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

2022Role: study subject

The Effect of Climate Change on Soil Organic Carbon over an Elevational Gradient

2022Role: text_match

Flying by night: Comparing crepuscular pollinator networks across two sites in Western North America

2020Role: text_match

TRY plant trait database - enhanced coverage and open access

Documents (14)

technical report

1980

technical report

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

environmental assessment

Appendix 2 List of Designated Colorado Natural Areas, List of Registered Colorado Natural Areas, List of Identified Colorado Natural Areas

technical report

Colorado Ranch Management School (Part 5)

Company Sponsored Research- Camp Dresser and McKee Inc

Homestake Mining Company Pitch Project Environmental Statement

Improving Irrigated Mountain Meadows

Improving Irrigated Mountain Meadows

Mount Emmons Mining and Reclimation Permit Application

technical report

Native Grasses

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technical report

Riparian Assessment USDA NRCS Bozeman, Montana

wildlife survey

Co-occurring Species

Festuca

Poaceae37 shared papers

Festuca thurberi

Poaceae27 shared papers

Elymus

Poaceae22 shared papers

Potentilla

Rosaceae21 shared papers

Ligusticum porteri

Apiaceae20 shared papers

Artemisia

Asteraceae20 shared papers

Bromus

Poaceae20 shared papers

Erigeron

Asteraceae20 shared papers

Taraxacum

Asteraceae19 shared papers

Kentucky Bluegrass

17 shared papers

2020Global Change BiologyRole: text_match

Altitudinal gradients fail to predict fungal symbiont responses to warming

2019EcologyRole: text_match

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

2019EcosphereRole: text_match

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

2019Role: text_match

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

2019Microbial EcologyRole: text_match

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

2019Role: text_match

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

2019Role: text_match

Effects of Light Availability on Aspen Understory Species

2018Role: text_match

Effects of abiotic and biotic stress on plant fitness and herbivore defense in Boechera stricta

2018Role: text_match

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

2017Role: text_match

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

2017Journal of Vegetation ScienceRole: text_match

Effects of Plant Diversity on Selection for Insect Resistance Traits in <i>Boechera stricta</i>

2016Role: text_match

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

2016Role: text_match

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

2016Role: text_match

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

2015Role: text_match

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

2015Role: text_match

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

2014Forest Ecology and ManagementRole: text_match

Plant Successional Changes Over 67 Years on the Gothic Earthflow.

2014Role: text_match

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

2014EcologyRole: text_match

How do above and belowground grass-fungus symbioses change over elevational gradients in mountainous Colorado?

2012Role: text_match

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

2009Role: text_match

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

2009Role: text_match

Species richness along an elevational gradient

2009Role: text_match

From individuals to ecosystem function: toward an integration of evolutionary and ecosystem ecology

2008EcologyRole: text_match

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

2004Role: text_match

A study of plant succession on the Gothic earthflow

1969Role: text_match

Small Mammals: A Beaver Pond Ecosystem and Adjacent Riparian Habitat in Idaho

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