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herbaceous plants

Common names: grasses and forbs

Taxonomy: Plantae

Roles: managed species

External: RMBL Collections · iNaturalist · iDigBio · GenBank

Papers: 116 | Mentions: 146

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Publications (116)

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

2026PNASRole: text_match

student_paper

Biotic and abiotic drivers of pathogen prevalence in a rust fungus with multiple plant hosts

2025Role: text_match

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Relaxation of the leaf economics spectrum within and across quaking aspen Populus tremuloides genotypes

2025OikosRole: text_match

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

2025New PhytologistRole: text_match

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Shorter seasonal snow cover poses a risk to solitary bee populations in a mountainous ecosystem

2025Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological SciencesRole: text_match

student_paper

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

2025Role: text_match

student_paper

Vegetation structure effect on bird foraging behavior across the summer season in montane wet-meadows

2025Role: text_match

student_paper

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

Documents (26)

technical report

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

legislation

A Resolution Adopting Temporary Regulations for Gunnison County Land Use Change, Access, Reclamation, Individual Sewage Disposal System or Building Permits on Lands Located Wholly or Partially Within a 0.60 Mile Radius of a Gunnison Sage-Grouse Lek or Located Wholly or Partially Within Gunnison Sage-Grouse Occupied Habitat

technical report

Colorado Ranch Management School (Part 2)

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technical report

Co-occurring Species

Potentilla

Rosaceae43 shared papers

Delphinium

Ranunculaceae41 shared papers

Erigeron

Asteraceae40 shared papers

Ligusticum porteri

Apiaceae39 shared papers

Spruce

37 shared papers

Helianthella

Asteraceae36 shared papers

Helianthella quinquenervis

Asteraceae29 shared papers

Artemisia

Asteraceae29 shared papers

A. tridentata

29 shared papers

Lupinus

Fabaceae28 shared papers

2024Role: text_match

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Hydrological control of rock carbon fluxes from shale weathering

2024Nature WaterRole: text_match

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Differences in individual flowering time change pollen limitation and seed set in three montane wildflowers

2023American Journal of BotanyRole: text_match

student_paper

Exploring the impact of climate change on soil carbon storage in montane meadows

2023Role: text_match

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Sage-Grouse

2023Role: text_match

other

An Extreme Number of Sensors in One Spot

2022Mt. Views ChronicleRole: text_match

student_paper

Combined Effects of Aridity and Herbivory on Plant Performance

2022Role: text_match

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

2022Fungal EcologyRole: text_match

student_paper

Floral phenotypic response of Ipomopsis aggregata and related hybrids to changing soil moisture and nitrogen enrichment

2022Role: 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

The Impacts of Changing Temperature on Plant Water Use

2022Role: text_match

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Variability of Snow and Rainfall Partitioning Into Evapotranspiration and Summer Runoff Across Nine Mountainous Catchments

2022Geophysical Research Letters,Role: text_match

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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

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

2021Global Change BiologyRole: text_match

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Producer-scrounger relationships in yellow-bellied marmots

2021Animal BehaviourRole: text_match

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Relationships matter: How the social environment affects individual fitness-related behaviors

2021Role: text_match

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Social position indirectly influences the traits yellow-bellied marmots use to solve problems

2021Animal CognitionRole: text_match

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Effects of climate change on alpine plants and their pollinators

2020Annals of the New York Academy of SciencesRole: text_match

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Integrating airborne remote sensing and field campaigns for ecology and Earth system science

2020Methods in EcologyRole: text_match

student_paper

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

2020Role: text_match

article

Soil Respiration Response to Rainfall Modulated by Plant Phenology in a Montane Meadow, East River, Colorado, USA

2020Journal of Geophysical Research: BiogeosciencesRole: text_match

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

2019Role: text_match

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

2019Plant EcologyRole: text_match

student_paper

Does Aphis asclepiadis colony size mediate Formica rufa and Tapinoma sessile competition for mutualist aphids

2019Role: text_match

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Early snowmelt projected to cause population decline in a subalpine plant

2019PNASRole: text_match

student_paper

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

2019Role: text_match

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Phenotypic plasticity of floral volatiles in response to increasing drought stress

2019American Journal of BotanyRole: text_match

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

2019Microbial 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

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Conditional Exploitation and Context-Dependent Fitness Consequences of Pollination Mutualisms

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

student_paper

Effects of Light Availability on Aspen Understory Species

2018Role: text_match

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Heritable plant phenotypes track light and herbivory levels at fine spatial scales

2018OecologiaRole: text_match

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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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Spatial patterns and climate relationships of major plant traits in the New World differ between woody and herbaceous species

2018Journal of BiogeographyRole: 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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40 years of progress in pollination biology, and what it means for citizen scientists

2017Aquilegia: Newsletter of the Colorado Native Plant SocietyRole: 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

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Does environmental heterogeneity drive functional trait variation? A test in montane and alpine meadows

2017OikosRole: text_match

student_paper

Factors Influencing Ungulate Barking Patterns of Populus tremuloides

2017Role: text_match

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

2017Method in Ecology and EvolutionRole: text_match

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Metabolic Partitioning across Individuals in Ecological Communities

2017Global Ecology and BiogeographyRole: text_match

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

2016EcosphereRole: text_match

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

2016Journal of EcologyRole: text_match

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How diploidization turned a tetraploid into a pseudotriploid

2016American Journal of BotanyRole: text_match

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Nesting aggregation as a determinant of brood parasitism in mason bees (Osmia spp.)

2016Role: text_match

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

2016Role: text_match

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

2016Role: text_match

student_paper

Barriers to Gene Flow across a Light Gradient in Cardamine cordifolia.

2015Role: text_match

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Microgeographic patterns of genetic divergence and adaptation across environmental gradients in Boechera stricta(Brassicaceae)

2015The American NaturalistRole: text_match

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The effect of the foresummer drought on carbon exchange in subalpine meadows

2015EcosystemsRole: text_match

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

2014Forest Ecology and ManagementRole: text_match

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

2014Role: text_match

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

2014NaturwissenschaftenRole: text_match

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

2014EcologyRole: text_match

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Expansion of herbaria data based on historically surveyed herbaceous plants in the Crested Butte area, Colorado.

2014Role: text_match

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Plant Successional Changes Over 67 Years on the Gothic Earthflow.

2014Role: text_match

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Pocket gopher activity across elevation gradients.

2014Role: text_match

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

2014American Journal of BotanyRole: text_match

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Which is a better predictor of plant traits: temperature or precipitation?

2014Journal of Vegetation ScienceRole: text_match

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Fungal symbionts alter plant responses to global change

2013American Journal of BotanyRole: text_match

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Phenology: An Integrative Environmental Science

2013Role: text_match

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Variation in root morphology and allocation of Androsace septentrionalis along a natural elevation/climate gradient

2013Role: text_match

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Plot-scale evidence of tundra vegetation change and links to recent summer warming

2012Nature Climate ChangeRole: text_match

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The effect of ants on the population dynamics of a protective symbiont of aphids, Hamiltonella defensa

2012Annals of Entomological Society of AmericaRole: text_match

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

2012Role: text_match

student_paper

The value of dihydrogen monoxide to a jumping mouse: habitat use and preference in Zapus princeps.

2012Role: text_match

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Hybridization between the invasives Tragopogon pratensis and T. dubius in the Gunnison Valley

2011Role: text_match

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Influence of population density and climate on the demography of subalpine golden-mantled ground squirrels

2011Journal of MammalogyRole: text_match

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Intraspecific variation of specific leaf area along an elevational gradient

2011Role: text_match

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Pollinator exclusion devices permitting easy access to flowers of small herbaceous plants

2011Journal of Pollination EcologyRole: text_match

student_paper

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

2011Role: text_match

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The effect of ants on the population dynamics of Hamiltonella defensa a protective symbiont of aphids

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

Intraspecific trait variation affects community distributions of alpine meadow plant communities

2010Role: text_match

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Plant–Pollinator interactions in a changing climate

2010Role: text_match

student_paper

The Landscape of Fear and Trophic Cascades: Does Human Presence at RMBL Affect Deer Behavior?

2010Role: text_match

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

2010Role: text_match

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Ecological restoration of Alder Creek, Colorado, USA

2009Science and SocietyRole: text_match

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The effects of mine disturbance and contamination on pollination of subalpine wildflowers

2009Role: text_match

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

2009Role: text_match

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

2008Role: text_match

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Effect of Soil Metals on Pollination of Subalpine Wildflowers

2008Role: text_match

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On the spatial distribution and abundance of herbaceous plants in aspen and conifer forest understories: a test of neutral/statistical versus niche-based theories?

2008Role: text_match

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Climate change and anti-herbivory resistance communication in Artemisia tridentata

2007Role: text_match

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

2007New PhytologistRole: text_match

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Effect of predation risk on the presence and persistence of yellow-bellied marmot (Marmota flaviventris) colonies

2006Journal of Zoology, LondonRole: text_match

student_paper

The timing of the ant-effect on nymph size and survivorship in an ant-treehopper mutualism

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

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The Effect of Ant Colony Proximity on Membracid Survivorship

2005Role: text_match

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Comparison of Arthropod Diversity between Perennial Shrub versus Evergreen Tree Habitats at Sites Near Gothic, CO

2004Role: text_match

student_paper

Ecosystems impacts of climate change: snowmelt timing, species diversity, and plant productivity

2004Role: text_match

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Early season arboreal behaviour in yellow-bellied marmots (Marmota flaviventris)

2003Oecologia MontanaRole: text_match

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Environmental influences on the phenology and abundance of flowering by Androsace septentrionalis (Primulaceae)

2003American Journal of BotanyRole: text_match

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Individual differences and reproductive success in yellow-bellied marmots

2003Ethology Ecology and EvolutionRole: text_match

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Observations on plant choice by foraging yellow-bellied marmots

2003Oecologia MontanaRole: text_match

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Reproductive isolation and hybrid pollen disadvantage in Ipomopsis

2003Journal of Evolutionary BiologyRole: text_match

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The response of Heracleum sphondylium (Apiaceae) and its herbivores to

2003URBEERole: text_match

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

2001Ecological ApplicationsRole: text_match

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Invertebrates in Freshwater Wetlands of North America: Ecology and Management

1999Role: text_match

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Invertebrates in Freshwater Wetlands of North America: Ecology and Management

1999Role: text_match

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

1995ScienceRole: text_match

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Diapause and the host plant affiliations of lycaenid butterflies

1994OikosRole: text_match

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Effects of snowpack on the timing and abundance of flowering in Delphinium nelsonii: implications for climate change

1991American Journal of BotanyRole: text_match

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Optimal outcrossing in Ipomopsis aggregata: seed set and offspring fitness

1989EvolutionRole: text_match

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Long-term preformation of leaves and inflorescences by a long-lived perennial monocarp, Frasera speciosa (Gentianaceae)

1986American Journal of BotanyRole: text_match

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Aboveground productivity and floristic structure of a high subalpine herbaceous meadow

1979Arctic and Alpine ResearchRole: text_match

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Caloric content of Rocky Mountain subalpine and Alpine Plants

1976Journal of Range ManagementRole: text_match

Colorado Ranch Management School (Part 5)

technical report

Draft for Pitch Mine Brochure

environmental assessment

Final Environmental Assessment: Providing Fish Passage at the Grand Valley Irrigation Company Diversion Dam on the Colorado River

Document

Four Wheel Drive

Document

Gunnison County Sage-Grouse Stategic Plan Draft

Document

Living With Beavers

Document

Management of Livestock Herbivory in Relationship to Sage-grouse Habitats and Populations

Document

Moist Forests

correspondence

National Public Lands Grazing Campaign

technical report

Proceedings of the National Symposium on Protection of Wetlands From Agricultural Impacts

legislation

Proposed Rules and Regulations of the Land Reclamation Board

legislation

Rules & Regulations Colorado Mined Land Reclamation Board

environmental assessment

Signed Candidate Conservation Agreement with Assurances with its included Certifcate of Inclusion template for Gunnison Sage Grouse

technical report

The Beaver in Colorado: It's Biology, Ecology, Management and Economics

water report

Water Quality Control Commission

environmental assessment

herbaceous plants

Local Knowledge Graph (Top 77 entities)

Publications (116)

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

Biotic and abiotic drivers of pathogen prevalence in a rust fungus with multiple plant hosts

Relaxation of the leaf economics spectrum within and across quaking aspen Populus tremuloides genotypes

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

Shorter seasonal snow cover poses a risk to solitary bee populations in a mountainous ecosystem

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

Vegetation structure effect on bird foraging behavior across the summer season in montane wet-meadows

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

Documents (26)

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

A System for Conservation Planning: Progress in Summit and Larimer Counties

An Ecological Basis for Beaver Management in the Rocky Mountain Region

Application of Monitoring for Producers

Baseline soil inventory Mount Emmons Project Gunnison, Colorado

Beaver Management

Bio-fuels: 2003

Colorado Ranch Management School (Part 1)

Colorado Ranch Management School (Part 2)

Co-occurring Species

Potentilla

Delphinium

Erigeron

Ligusticum porteri

Spruce

Helianthella

Helianthella quinquenervis

Artemisia

A. tridentata

Lupinus

Hydrological control of rock carbon fluxes from shale weathering

Differences in individual flowering time change pollen limitation and seed set in three montane wildflowers

Exploring the impact of climate change on soil carbon storage in montane meadows

Sage-Grouse

An Extreme Number of Sensors in One Spot

Combined Effects of Aridity and Herbivory on Plant Performance

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

Floral phenotypic response of <i> Ipomopsis aggregata </i> and related hybrids to changing soil moisture and nitrogen enrichment

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

The Impacts of Changing Temperature on Plant Water Use

Variability of Snow and Rainfall Partitioning Into Evapotranspiration and Summer Runoff Across Nine Mountainous Catchments

Can flowers affect land surface albedo and soil microclimates?

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

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

Producer-scrounger relationships in yellow-bellied marmots

Relationships matter: How the social environment affects individual fitness-related behaviors

Social position indirectly influences the traits yellow-bellied marmots use to solve problems

Effects of climate change on alpine plants and their pollinators

Integrating airborne remote sensing and field campaigns for ecology and Earth system science

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

Soil Respiration Response to Rainfall Modulated by Plant Phenology in a Montane Meadow, East River, Colorado, USA

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

Does <i>Aphis asclepiadis</i> colony size mediate <i>Formica rufa</i> and <i>Tapinoma sessile</i> competition for mutualist aphids

Early snowmelt projected to cause population decline in a subalpine plant

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

Phenotypic plasticity of floral volatiles in response to increasing drought stress

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

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

Conditional Exploitation and Context-Dependent Fitness Consequences of Pollination Mutualisms

Effects of Light Availability on Aspen Understory Species

Heritable plant phenotypes track light and herbivory levels at fine spatial scales

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

Spatial patterns and climate relationships of major plant traits in the New World differ between woody and herbaceous species

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

40 years of progress in pollination biology, and what it means for citizen scientists

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

Does environmental heterogeneity drive functional trait variation? A test in montane and alpine meadows

Factors Influencing Ungulate Barking Patterns of <i>Populus tremuloides</i>

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

Metabolic Partitioning across Individuals in Ecological Communities

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.

How diploidization turned a tetraploid into a pseudotriploid

Nesting aggregation as a determinant of brood parasitism in mason bees (<i>Osmia</i> spp.)

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

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

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