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Festuca

Common names: fescue, Fescue

Taxonomy: Plantae > Tracheophyta > Magnoliopsida > Poales > Poaceae

Roles: habitat component, managed species, study subject

ITIS TSN: 40792

External: RMBL Collections · iNaturalist · iDigBio · GenBank

Papers: 90 | Mentions: 118

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Publications (90)

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

2026PNASRole: text_match

article

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

2026PNASRole: text_match

article

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

2025Global Change BiologyRole: text_match

chapter

Changes in insect population dynamics due to climate change

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

student_paper

Effect of Nitrogen on Linaria vulgaris and Native Species

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

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

2023Role: text_match

article

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

Documents (14)

technical report

1980

technical report

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

wildlife survey

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

technical report

Mount Emmons Mining and Reclimation Permit Application

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technical report

Native Grasses

environmental assessment

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

Co-occurring Species

Festuca thurberi

Poaceae69 shared papers

Potentilla

Rosaceae49 shared papers

Erigeron

Asteraceae47 shared papers

Artemisia

Asteraceae44 shared papers

Elymus

Poaceae41 shared papers

A. tridentata

40 shared papers

Ligusticum porteri

Apiaceae39 shared papers

Artemisia tridentata

Asteraceae38 shared papers

Poa pratensis

Poaceae37 shared papers

Lathyrus

37 shared papers

2023Journal of Animal EcologyRole: text_match

article

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

2023MicrobiomeRole: text_match

article

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

2022Fungal EcologyRole: text_match

article

Intraspecific Variation in Responses of a Montane Grass, Festuca thurberi , to Simulated Biological Invasion

2022Frontiers in Forests and Global ChangeRole: text_match

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

2022EcologyRole: 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

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

2021Climate Change EcologyRole: text_match

article

Mammalian herbivores restrict the altitudinal range limits of alpine plants

2021Ecology LettersRole: 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

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

2020AOB PlantsRole: text_match

article

TRY plant trait database - enhanced coverage and open access

2020Global Change BiologyRole: text_match

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

2020Frontiers in Microbiology. doi 10.3389/fmicb.2020.00871Role: text_match

article

Altitudinal gradients fail to predict fungal symbiont responses to warming

2019EcologyRole: text_match

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Context dependent biotic interactions control plant abundance across altitudinal environmental gradients

2019EcographyRole: 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

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

2019Role: text_match

thesis

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

2019Role: text_match

article

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

2019Microbial EcologyRole: text_match

thesis

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

2019Role: text_match

article

Soil microbes that may accompany climate warming increase alpine plant production

2019OecologiaRole: 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

student_paper

Effects of Light Availability on Aspen Understory Species

2018Role: text_match

student_paper

First-order controls of soil and leaf moisture

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

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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

student_paper

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

2017Role: text_match

thesis

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

2017Role: study subject

student_paper

Effects of Microclimate on the regeneration of Quaking Aspens, Populus tremuloides

2017Role: text_match

student_paper

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

2017Role: text_match

article

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

2017Method in Ecology and EvolutionRole: 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

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

2016Role: text_match

student_paper

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

2016Role: text_match

thesis

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

2016Role: study subject

thesis

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

2016Role: text_match

student_paper

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

2016Role: text_match

student_paper

The future of plant-fungal symbioses along elevational gradients

2016Role: text_match

student_paper

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

2016Role: text_match

article

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

2015Global Change BiologyRole: text_match

student_paper

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

2015Role: text_match

student_paper

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

2015Role: text_match

student_paper

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

2014Role: text_match

student_paper

An Endophyte alters biological characteristics of the grass, Festuca thurberi.

2014Role: text_match

article

Changes in ant community composition caused by 20 years of experimental warming vs.13 years of natural climate shift

2014EcosphereRole: text_match

student_paper

Plant Successional Changes Over 67 Years on the Gothic Earthflow.

2014Role: text_match

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

2014EcologyRole: text_match

article

Strong selection genome-wide enhances fitness tradeoffs across environments and episodes of selection

2014EvolutionRole: text_match

student_paper

Effect of location on plant species richness and diversity in Aspen (Populus tremuloides) understory: edge vs. inner forest habitat

2013Role: text_match

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Fungal symbionts alter plant responses to global change

2013American Journal of BotanyRole: text_match

student_paper

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

2013Role: text_match

student_paper

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

2012Role: text_match

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Parasite infection and host dynamics in a naturally fluctuating rodent population

2012Canadian Journal of ZoologyRole: text_match

thesis

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

2012Role: text_match

student_paper

Ant presences alter plants: The impact Formica obscuripes presence on plants and soil micro-anthropod diversity

2011Role: text_match

student_paper

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

2011Role: text_match

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

2010J of EcologyRole: text_match

student_paper

Determining Long-Term Success of Revegetation Efforts in Disturbed Sites

2009Role: text_match

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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

thesis

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

2008Role: text_match

student_paper

Climate change and anti-herbivory resistance communication in Artemisia tridentata

2007Role: 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

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Weather influences on demography of the yellow-bellied marmot (Marmota flaviventris)

2005Journal of Zoology, LondonRole: text_match

student_paper

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

2004Role: text_match

article

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

2003Oecologia MontanaRole: text_match

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

2003Ecological MonographsRole: text_match

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

2003Journal of MammalogyRole: 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

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

2001Ecological ApplicationsRole: text_match

article

Plant responses to experimental warming in a montane meadow

2001EcologyRole: text_match

student_paper

The Effects of Competition on the Establishment of Festuca thurberi onto the Gothic Earthflow

1999Role: text_match

article

A 32-year demography of yellow-bellied marmots (Marmota flaviventris)

1998J Zool LondonRole: text_match

article

Global warming and soil microclimate: results from a meadow-warming experiment

1995Ecological ApplicationsRole: text_match

article

Shifting dominance within a montane vegetation community: results from a climate-warming experiment

1995ScienceRole: text_match

student_paper

Festuca thurberi and Vicia americana - a mutualism?

1994Role: text_match

student_paper

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

1989Role: 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

student_paper

A floristic study of the Festuca meadows in the Gunnison National Forest of Colorado

1946Role: text_match

environmental assessment

Vegetation and Wildlife Studies for the Mount Emmons Project

environmental assessment

Festuca

Local Knowledge Graph (Top 81 entities)

Publications (90)

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

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

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

Documents (14)

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

Colorado Ranch Management School (Part 5)

Company Sponsored Research- Camp Dresser and McKee Inc

Determination of Annual Forage Production

Homestake Mining Company Pitch Project Environmental Statement

Moist Forests

Mount Emmons Mining and Reclimation Permit Application

Native Grasses

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

Co-occurring Species

Festuca thurberi

Potentilla

Erigeron

Artemisia

Elymus

A. tridentata

Ligusticum porteri

Artemisia tridentata

Poa pratensis

Lathyrus

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

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

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

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

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?

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

An Endophyte alters biological characteristics of the grass, Festuca thurberi.

Changes in ant community composition caused by 20 years of experimental warming vs.13 years of natural climate shift

Plant Successional Changes Over 67 Years on the Gothic Earthflow.