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ARLINGTON, Va., May 30 -- The National Science Foundation issued the following press release: The glacier lily as it's called, is a tall, willowy plant that graces mountain meadows throughout western

... ; Billy Barr of the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory in Crested Butte , Colo. ; David Bertelsen of the University of Arizona ; and Nickolas Waser, affiliated with all three institutions. "Nort

Washington, Apr 15 (ANI): Some of the relationships among blooming of flowers, emerging of insects, migration of birds, and planting and hunting seasons are falling out of sync as climate change alter

April Reese, E&E reporter The earlier arrival of spring due to climate change is having significant effects on Rocky Mountain populations of two types of insects, the mountain pine beetle and the Morm

A growing number of studies from Colorado's Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory are illustrating the effects of climate change on species in the region, said the laboratory's president, Ian Billick,

The following information was released by Stanford University: Scientists say early snowmelt for two consecutive years explained more than four-fifths of the observed variation in Mormon fritillary bu

Early snow melts can throw a butterfly's life cycle out of whack, accounting for 84 percent of the

The following information was released by the National Science Foundation: Early snowmelt caused by climate change in the Colorado Rocky Mountains snowballs into two chains of events: a decrease in th

... available nectar. The result is decline in a population of the Mormon Fritillary butterfly, Speyeria mormonia. Using long-term data on date of snowmelt, butterfly population sizes and flower numbe

The following information was released by the University of Maryland - College Park: The early arrival of spring across the U.S. undoubtedly has warmed the hearts of many people, but for flowering pla

The National Science Foundation issued the following news release: Most people consider the onset of spring and the growing season a good thing. But for nature, the trend toward earlier springs and th

... Aldridge and William Barr of the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, Jessica Forrest of the University of California at Davis, and Abraham Miller-Rushing of the USA National Phenology Network in

The following information was released by the National Science Foundation: It's summer wildflower season in the Rocky Mountains, a time when high-peaks meadows are dotted with riotous color. But for h