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Mertensia ciliata

Taxonomy: Plantae > Tracheophyta > Magnoliopsida > Boraginales > Boraginaceae

Roles: habitat component, study subject, reference species

ITIS TSN: 31668

External: RMBL Collections · iNaturalist · iDigBio · GenBank

Papers: 60 | Mentions: 72

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Publications (60)

student_paper

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

2025Role: text_match

student_paper

Quantifying ethanol in bumble bee honey and Colorado rocky mountain wildflowers

2025Role: text_match

student_paper

The impact of soil moisture, nectar production, and spectral reflectance on hummingbird visitation patterns to the Scarlet Gilia (Ipomopsis aggregata)

2025Role: habitat component

student_paper

The Impact of Delphinium nuttallianum and Ipomopsis aggregata Phenology on Broad-tailed Hummingbird (Selasphorus platycercus) Visitation Patterns

2024Role: text_match

student_paper

The Impact of Delphinium nuttallianum and Ipomopsis aggregata Phenology on Broad tailed Hummingbird (Selasphorus platycercus) Visitation Patterns

2024Role: text_match

article

Current and lagged climate affects phenology across diverse taxonomic groups

2023Proceedings of the Royal Society BRole: text_match

article

Earlier snow melt and reduced summer precipitation alter floral traits important to pollination

2022Global Change BiologyRole: reference species

Documents (4)

technical report

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

technical report

Biologically Significant Areas in Gunnison County Colorado

management plan

The Colorado Division of Wildlife Wetlands Program

environmental assessment

Wetlands of the Crested Butte Region

Co-occurring Species

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

article

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

Bumble bees are constant to nectar-robbing behaviour despite low switching costs

2020Animal BehaviourRole: text_match

article

Competition for nectar resources does not affect bee foraging tactic constancy

2020Ecological EntomologyRole: 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

thesis

Adaptation and diversification of bluebells Mertensia spp., Boranginaceae

2019Role: study subject

thesis

Floral reward strategies, visitor behavior, and plant reproductive outcomes

2019Role: text_match

student_paper

Intraspecific flower color variation along elevation gradients

2019Role: text_match

student_paper

Quantifying Nectar Resources in Bumble Bee Visited Plants

2019Role: text_match

student_paper

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

2018Role: text_match

article

Why are some plant-nectar robber interactions commensalisms?

2018OikosRole: text_match

student_paper

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

2017Role: text_match

thesis

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

2017Role: study subject

article

Shifts in water availability mediate plantâ€“pollinator interactions

2017New PhytologistRole: text_match

student_paper

Variation in bill morphology and pollen prevalence in the Broad-Tailed Hummingbird (Selasphorus platycercus)

2017Role: text_match

student_paper

Assessing pollinatorsâ€™ contribution to the reproductive success of Mertensia ciliata

2016Role: text_match

article

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

2016EcosphereRole: text_match

article

Frost sensitivity of leaves and flowers of subalpine plants is related to tissue type and phenology.

2016Journal of EcologyRole: 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

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

2015Role: text_match

student_paper

Frost Sensitivity of Subalpine Plants in the Colorado Rocky Mountains: The Effects of Seasonality, Water Content, and Phylogeny

2014Role: text_match

article

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

2014American Journal of BotanyRole: text_match

article

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

2014Journal of Pollination EcologyRole: text_match

student_paper

Measuring the influence of phylogenetic relationships on floral visitation

2013Role: text_match

chapter

Phenology: An Integrative Environmental Science

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

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

article

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

2010Amer J of BotanyRole: text_match

article

Coupled dynamics of body mass and population growth in response to environmental change

2010NatureRole: text_match

article

Flowering phenology in subalpine meadows: does climate variation influence community co-flowering patterns?

2010EcologyRole: text_match

student_paper

Nectar and pollen rewards of invasive plants and their native congeners

2010Role: text_match

thesis

Plant–Pollinator interactions in a changing climate

2010Role: 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

Species richness along an elevational gradient

2009Role: text_match

student_paper

Species richness along elevation gradient and possible correlation factors

2009Role: text_match

article

Variation in the impact of climate change on flowering phenology and abundance: an examination of two pairs of closely related wildflower species

2009American Journal of BotanyRole: 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

Effects of food addition on life history of 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

Are nectar robbers cheaters or mutualists?

2000EcologyRole: text_match

article

Climate change is affecting altitudinal migrants and hibernating species

2000Proceedings of the National Academy of ScienceRole: text_match

student_paper

The effects of road proximity on pollinator visit to Mertensia ciliata

1997Role: text_match

student_paper

Phenotypic plasticity and resource allocation in the leaves of Geranium richardsonii, Mertensia ciliata, and Valeriana occidentalis in a sun dominant versus a shade dominant habit

1996Role: text_match

article

Pollinator restriction in the narrow-tube flower type of Mertensia ciliata (James) G. Don (Boraginaceae)

1994Plant Species BiologyRole: text_match

article

Caloric content of Rocky Mountain subalpine and Alpine Plants

1976Journal of Range ManagementRole: text_match

article

An investigation of the ecology of Mertensia ciliata in Colorado

1961EcologyRole: text_match

article

Variation patterns in four clones of Mertensia ciliata

1959MadronoRole: text_match

Mertensia ciliata

Local Knowledge Graph (Top 80 entities)

Publications (60)

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

Quantifying ethanol in bumble bee honey and Colorado rocky mountain wildflowers

The impact of soil moisture, nectar production, and spectral reflectance on hummingbird visitation patterns to the Scarlet Gilia (Ipomopsis aggregata)

The Impact of Delphinium nuttallianum and Ipomopsis aggregata Phenology on Broad-tailed Hummingbird (Selasphorus platycercus) Visitation Patterns

The Impact of Delphinium nuttallianum and Ipomopsis aggregata Phenology on Broad tailed Hummingbird (Selasphorus platycercus) Visitation Patterns

Current and lagged climate affects phenology across diverse taxonomic groups

Earlier snow melt and reduced summer precipitation alter floral traits important to pollination

Documents (4)

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

Biologically Significant Areas in Gunnison County Colorado

The Colorado Division of Wildlife Wetlands Program

Wetlands of the Crested Butte Region

Co-occurring Species

Mertensia

Delphinium

Delphinium barbeyi

Bombus

Ipomopsis

Hummingbird

I. aggregata

Potentilla

Erigeron

Ipomopsis aggregata

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

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

Bumble bees are constant to nectar-robbing behaviour despite low switching costs

Competition for nectar resources does not affect bee foraging tactic constancy

Pollinator visitation rate and effectiveness vary with flowering phenology

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

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

Floral reward strategies, visitor behavior, and plant reproductive outcomes

Intraspecific flower color variation along elevation gradients

Quantifying Nectar Resources in Bumble Bee Visited Plants

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

Why are some plant-nectar robber interactions commensalisms?

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

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

Shifts in water availability mediate plantâ€“pollinator interactions

Variation in bill morphology and pollen prevalence in the Broad-Tailed Hummingbird (<i>Selasphorus platycercus</i>)

Assessing pollinatorsâ€™ contribution to the reproductive success of <i>Mertensia ciliata</i>

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

Frost sensitivity of leaves and flowers of subalpine plants is related to tissue type and phenology.

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

The Changing Floral Color Landscape Across an Alpine Elevation Gradient

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

Frost Sensitivity of Subalpine Plants in the Colorado Rocky Mountains: The Effects of Seasonality, Water Content, and Phylogeny

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

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

Measuring the influence of phylogenetic relationships on floral visitation

Phenology: An Integrative Environmental Science

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

Intraspecific variation of specific leaf area along an elevational gradient

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

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

Coupled dynamics of body mass and population growth in response to environmental change

Flowering phenology in subalpine meadows: does climate variation influence community co-flowering patterns?

Nectar and pollen rewards of invasive plants and their native congeners

Plant–Pollinator interactions in a changing climate

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

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

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

Species richness along an elevational gradient

Species richness along elevation gradient and possible correlation factors

Variation in the impact of climate change on flowering phenology and abundance: an examination of two pairs of closely related wildflower species

Reciprocal benefits in a plant-pollinator mutualism

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

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

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

Are nectar robbers cheaters or mutualists?

Climate change is affecting altitudinal migrants and hibernating species

The effects of road proximity on pollinator visit to <i>Mertensia ciliata</i>

Phenotypic plasticity and resource allocation in the leaves of <i>Geranium richardsonii</i>, <i>Mertensia ciliata</i>, and <i>Valeriana occidentalis</i> in a sun dominant versus a shade dominant habit

Pollinator restriction in the narrow-tube flower type of Mertensia ciliata (James) G. Don (Boraginaceae)

Caloric content of Rocky Mountain subalpine and Alpine Plants

An investigation of the ecology of <i>Mertensia ciliata</i> in Colorado

Variation patterns in four clones of <i>Mertensia ciliata</i>