Climate Change Effects on Plant-Pollinator Phenology
studies how climate change disrupts the timing of flowering plants and their pollinators, which threatens ecosystem stability and food webs in alpine environments.
Species (12) →
Mertensia oblongifolia
Erythronium grandiflorum
Potentilla pulcherrima
Fragaria virginiana
Boechera stricta
Linum lewisii
Osmia
Apis mellifera
Erigeron speciosus
Helianthella quinquenervis
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Concept (32) →
phenological mismatch
When organisms dependent on synchronized milestones adapt to environmental changes at different rates, causing their reproductive, feeding, and/or mig...
snow cover duration
Number of days from autumn snow onset to spring snowmelt, providing temperature stabilization and protection for overwintering organisms
climate change effects on species interactions
The framework that climate affects species abundances and distributions both directly through physiological effects and indirectly through effects on ...
sex ratio
Population parameter measuring the relative frequency of males and females, specifically operational sex ratio of flowering individuals
herkogamy
mate limitation
interaction turnover
Changes in network composition between treatments, partitioned into species turnover versus interaction rewiring components
phylogenetic signal
The tendency for related species to resemble each other more than expected by chance, measured by Blomberg's K and Pagel's lambda
climate change adaptation
The ability of organisms to adjust to changing climatic conditions through genetic, phenotypic, or behavioral changes
frost damage
Direct damage to plant buds and flowers from freezing temperatures occurring during vulnerable developmental stages
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spatial autocorrelation
The degree to which values at nearby locations are correlated, used to assess spatial clustering in disease patterns
phenophases
Distinct phases of bee flight period: emergence from nests, timing of peak abundance of foragers, and senescence
abundance
tripartite interactions
Interactions involving three species or groups, such as soil microbes, plants, and pollinators
diet breadth
Measure of foraging specialization using standardized Hurlbert's niche breadth, where values closer to 1 represent generalized foraging and values clo...
brood parasitism
When sapygid wasps enter brood cells during the provisioning or brood cell construction stages and lay eggs in provisioned brood cells prior to wall c...
climate-mediated indirect effects
Effects of climate variables on organism fitness that operate through changes in resource availability rather than direct physiological impacts
network robustness
A network's sensitivity to simulated extinction of plants or pollinators, measured as secondary extinction cascades
mutualisms
photoperiodic time measurement
The mechanism by which organisms measure day and night length to regulate seasonal activities like diapause
lecty
Diet breadth of bees classified as oligolectic (collect pollen from flowers in multiple plant families) or polylectic (collect pollen from flowers in ...
nestedness
niche contraction
leaf volumetric water content
Percentage of leaf biomass composed of water, calculated as difference between wet and dry weight divided by wet weight
synchrony
The degree to which individuals in a population exhibit coordinated timing of nesting activity
sampling bias
Systematic differences in detection or capture probability among species or groups due to sampling method
corolla length
The length of flower tubes, which correlates with bumble bee proboscis length and determines flower accessibility
sampling effort
hemiparasitism
Parasitic plants that retain absorptive roots and are capable of carbon fixation through photosynthesis but still need to draw some of their resources...
biomass allocation
Distribution of plant growth and resources between aboveground (shoots) and belowground (roots) structures
body size-temperature rule
Higher temperatures shorten larval developmental period leading to smaller adults, where body size exhibits temperature-mediated variation
climate change effects on behavior
How changing weather patterns and climate conditions influence animal behavioral strategies
Protocol (21) →
Flowering phenology census
Tagged individual plants are monitored twice weekly throughout the growing season to record bloom start dates, bloom end dates, and total flower produ...
Generalized additive modeling
Hierarchical Bayesian models predicting vital rates from individual and neighborhood characteristics, with population-level random effects and model s...
correlation analysis
Statistical analysis using mixed effects models to evaluate relationships between plant clumping treatment and temperature responses while accounting ...
Alpine plant phenology monitoring with snowmelt timing
Weekly monitoring of alpine plant flowering phenology coupled with snowmelt date recording to assess environmental effects on plant reproductive timin...
Split-plot snowmelt and precipitation manipulation experiment
A factorial field experiment manipulating snowmelt timing using black shade cloth and summer precipitation using rainout shelters in a split-plot desi...
NOAA weather station monitoring
Long-term systematic collection of first sighting and median activity dates for plants, insects, mammals, amphibians and birds in a high-elevation mon...
Trap-nest sampling (Megachilidae)
Installation and monitoring of artificial wooden nesting-blocks with multiple cavity sizes to track solitary bee nesting activity, timing, and reprodu...
Snowmelt manipulation using shade cloths
Shade cloths suspended 3m above treatment plots accelerate snowmelt by 5-7 days when snowpack reaches ~1m depth, simulating earlier spring snowmelt co...
HOBO data logger monitoring
Year-round automated temperature logging with HOBO sensors to detect snowmelt timing and calculate temperature-precipitation ratios during bee activit...
MODIS EVI time series analysis
Harmonized Landsat 8 and Sentinel-2 imagery processed through continental-scale algorithms to create vegetation index time series and estimate phenoph...
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Reciprocal egg-transfer experiment for bee larval survival (Megachilidae)
Laboratory experiment transferring bee eggs between different pollen provision types to test effects on larval survival. Eggs moved between Taraxacum ...
Malaise trap sampling
Long-term standardized sampling of aerial insects using a single Malaise trap at a fixed location operated weekly throughout growing seasons. Insects ...
High-precision GPS population density mapping (Plantae)
Uses centimeter-precision GPS to map exact locations of all individuals in study plots, enabling calculation of population density and neighbor relati...
degree-day models
Calculation of cumulative growing degree days from weather station data using species-specific base temperatures, correlated with biological events th...
Whittaker's dissimilarity index
Calculation of interaction turnover between plant-pollinator networks at different sites by comparing shared taxa and their interaction frequencies. P...
Factorial phenology-water manipulation of potted wildflowers
A factorial experiment manipulating both flowering phenology (by moving plants between elevations) and water availability (through differential wateri...
GAM phenophase estimation
Using Generalized Additive Models to estimate emergence, peak, and senescence timing from sparse time-series abundance data. Models fit abundance curv...
Helianthella flower removal experiment (Asteraceae)
Experimental removal of flower buds to simulate frost damage effects, allowing comparison of microclimate conditions between plots with and without fl...
Fuchsin jelly pollen extraction
Quantitative analysis of pollen grain composition in bee provisions using compound microscopy. Pollen samples stained with fuchsin and examined at 100...
Controlled frost sensitivity chamber experiment (Plantae)
Plant tissues are subjected to controlled freezing temperatures in a programmable chamber to determine frost damage thresholds. Temperatures are gradu...
Concentric circle floral density estimation (Megachilidae)
Floral resource availability was quantified by counting flowers while walking in progressively larger circles from a central point until reaching 100 ...
Author (33) →
David W. Inouye
James D. Thomson
Amy M. Iler
Paul J. CaraDonna
Tom E. X. Miller
William K. Petry
Jessica R.K. Forrest
Ana Chicas-Mosier
Judith D. Soule
David William Inouye
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Jane E. Ogilvie
Brian D. Inouye
Rebecca M. Dalton
N. C. Underwood
G. H. Pyke
T. T. Hoye
Sean R. Griffin
B. A. Roy
Pardee G.
Nicole E. Rafferty
A. J. Miller-Rushing
Justin A. Bain
Aldo Compagnoni
P. T. Wilson
B. A. Thomson
Billy Barr
C. A. Kearns
M. C. Castellanos
P. Bierzychudek
C. David Bertelsen
Dakota M. Spear
R. D. Dawson
A. M. Anderson
Publication (145) →
Effects of climate change on phenology, frost damage, and floral abundance of montane wildflowers
Climate change, phenological shifts, and species interactions: Case studies in subalpine plant and migratory fish populations
Solitary bee genera differ in foraging activity timing and temperature; Evidence of a seasonal dietary shift in Hoplitis fulgida
The effects of anthropogenic change on pollination in plant-pollinator communities
Reproductive losses due to climate change? Induced earlier flowering are not the primary threat to plant population viability in a perennial herb
Interannual bumble bee abundance is driven by indirect climate effects on floral resource phenology
Variation in the impact of climate change on flowering phenology and abundance: an examination of two pairs of closely related wildflower species
Emergence of a mid-season period of low floral resources in a montane meadow ecosystem associated with climate change
Phenotypic plasticity and adaptive evolution contribute to advancing flowering phenology in response to climate change
Current and lagged climate affects phenology across diverse taxonomic groups
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Plant-Pollinator Interactions and Environmental Change: Effects of Experimental Changes in Phenology and Water Availability on a Montane Wildflower
An examination of synchrony between insect emergence and flowering in Rocky Mountain meadows
A single climate driver has direct and indirect effects on insect population dynamics
Flowering phenology in subalpine meadows: does climate variation influence community co-flowering patterns?
Effects of climate change on phenologies and distributions of bumble bees and the plants they visit
Nonlinear flowering responses to climate: are species approaching their limits of phenological change?
Maintenance of temporal synchrony between syrphid flies and floral resources despite differential phenological responses to climate
Changes in snowmelt date and summer precipitation affect the flowering phenology of <i>Erythronium grandiflorum</i> (Glacier Lily; Liliaceae)
Generalization in pollination systems, and why it matters
The effects of phenological mismatches on demography
Flowering phenology, fruiting success and progressive deterioration of pollination in an early-flowering geophyte
The individual and combined effects of snowmelt timing and frost exposure on the reproductive success of montane forbs
Experimental Test of the Combined Effects of Water Availability and Flowering Time on Pollinator Visitation and Seed Set
Direct benefits and indirect costs of warm temperatures for high-elevation populations of a solitary bee
Bee phenology is predicted by climatic variation and functional traits
Climate change and phenology
Plant–pollinator interaction niche broadens in response to severe drought perturbations
Consequences of variation in flowering time within and among individuals of <i>Mertensia fusiformis</i> (Boraginaceae), an early spring wildflower
Life-history traits predict responses of wild bees to climate variation
Temporal scale-dependence of plant–pollinator networks
Shorter seasonal snow cover poses a risk to solitary bee populations in a mountainous ecosystem
Toward a synthetic understanding of the role of phenology in ecology and evolution
Snow melt timing acts independently and in conjunction with temperature accumulation to drive subalpine plant phenology
Interaction rewiring and the rapid turnover of plant-pollinator networks
Shifts in water availability mediate plant–pollinator interactions
From the ground up: Building predictions for how climate change will affect belowground mutualisms, floral traits, and bee behavior
Removing flowers of a generalist plant changes pollinator visitation, composition, and interaction network structure
Temporal flexibility in the structure of plant–pollinator interaction networks
Local geographic distributions of bumblebees near Crested Butte, Colorado: competition and community structure
Activity and abundance of bumble bees near Crested Butte, CO: diel, seasonal, and elevation effects
Seasonal change in a pollinator community and the maintenance of style length variation in Mertensia fusiformis (Boraginaceae)
Pollinator visitation rate and effectiveness vary with flowering phenology
The shifting importance of abiotic and biotic factors across the life cycles of wild pollinators
Long-term trends mask variation in the direction and magnitude of short-term phenological shifts
Resource partitioning in bumblebees: experimental studies of foraging behavior
The ecological and evolutionary significance of frost in the context of climate change
Skewness in bee and flower phenological distributions
The effect of repeated, lethal sampling on wild bee abundance and diversity
Can flowers affect land surface albedo and soil microclimates?
Lagged and dormant season climate better predict plant vital rates than climate during the growing season
Multitrophic interactions mediate the effects of climate change on herbivore abundance
Changing Climate Drives Divergent and Nonlinear Shifts in Flowering Phenology across Elevations
Effects of climate change on alpine plants and their pollinators
Environmental influences on the phenology and abundance of flowering by <i>Androsace septentrionalis</i> (Primulaceae)
The importance of interannual variation and bottom-up nitrogen enrichment for plant-pollinator networks
Two-year bee or not two-year bee? How voltinism is affected by temperature and season length in a high-elevation solitary bee
Phenology as a process rather than an event: from individual reaction norms to community metrics
Interactions between bee foraging and floral resource phenology shape bee populations and communities
Effects of snowpack on the timing and abundance of flowering in Delphinium nelsonii: implications for climate change
Temperature influences pollinators' choice of floral partners independently of community composition
Detrending phenological time series improves climate-phenology analyses and reveals evidence of plasticity
Asteraceae pollen provisions protect <i>Osmia</i> mason bees (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae) from brood parasitism
Long-term declines in insect abundance and biomass in a subalpine habitat
Delving deeper: Questioning the decline of long-tongued bumble bees, long-tubed flowers and their mutualisms with climate change
Fitness costs and benefits of a non-native floral resource for subalpine solitary bees
The effect of demographic correlations on the stochastic population dynamics of perennial plants
Simultaneous niche expansion and contraction in plant–pollinator networks under drought
Up high, hot and dry: Individual reproductive output in subalpine bees declines with increasing drought severity
Single pollinator species losses reduce floral fidelity and plant reproductive function
Flies and Flowers III: Ecology of Foraging and Pollination
Flowering date of taxonomic families predicts phenological sensitivity to temperature: Implications for forecasting the effects of climate change on unstudied taxa
Site fidelity by bees drives pollination facilitation in sequentially blooming plant species
Extensive regional variation in the phenology of insects and their response to temperature across North America
Plant-pollinator interactions under climate change: the use of spatial and temporal transplants
Ecological Drivers and Consequences of Bumble Bee Body Size Variation
Nutrient niche dynamics among wild pollinators
Community context mediates effects of pollinator loss on seed production
Phenological responses to climate change do not exhibit phylogenetic signal in a subalpine plant community
Legume germination is delayed in dry soils and in sterile soils devoid of microbial mutualists: Species-specific implications for upward range expansions
Flying by night: Comparing nocturnal pollinator networks over time in the Colorado Rocky Mountains
A global test for phylogenetic signal in shifts in flowering time under climate change
Climate data from the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory (1975–2022)
Experimental species removals impact the architecture of pollination networks
Pollinator specialization: from the individual to the community
Parasitism modifies the direct effects of warming on a hemiparasite and its host
Progressive deterioration of pollination service detected in a 17-year study vanishes in a 26-year study
Untangling the seasonal dynamics of plant-pollinator communities
Global Warming, Advancing Bloom and Evidence for Pollinator Plasticity from Long-Term Bee Emergence Monitoring
Anthophilous fly distribution across an elevation gradient
Male bumble bees are important pollinators of a late-blooming plant
Size-specific interaction patterns and size matching in a plant-pollinator interaction web
Genes Suggest Ancestral Colour Polymorphisms Are Shared across Morphologically Cryptic Species in Arctic Bumblebees
Flies and flowers II: Floral attractants and rewards
Effects of climate change on mast-flowering cues in a clonal montane herb, <i>Veratrum tenuipetalum</i> (Melanthiaceae)
Effects of global change on insect pollinators: multiple drivers lead to novel communities
Foraging efficiency and size matching in a plant-pollinator communitiy: the importance of sugar content and tongue length
Turnover and reliability of flower communities in extreme environments: Insights from long-term phenology data sets
Pollen limitation and cleistogamy in subalpine <i>Viola praemorsa</i>
Pollen chemical and mechanical defences restrict host-plant use by bees
Competition for bumblebee pollinators in Rocky Mountain plant communities
Pollination biology in the Snowy Mountains of Australia, with comparisons with montane Colorado, USA
Pollinator exclusion devices permitting easy access to flowers of small herbaceous plants
Effects of pollinators, herbivores, and seed predators on flowering phenology
The effect of 10 years of repeat lethal sampling on wild bee abundance
Niche partitioning due to adaptive foraging reverses effects of nestedness and connectance on pollination network stability
Skewed flowering distributions and pollinator attraction
Flies and flowers: taxonomic diversity of anthophiles and pollinators
Floral mimicry by a plant pathogen
Patterns of visitation by animal pollinators
Floral morphology and cross-pollination in Erythronium grandiflorum (Liliaceae)
The buzz around biodiversity decline: Detecting pollinator shifts using a systematic review
Conservation of insect diversity: a habitat approach
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The Pending Extinction of the Uncompahgre Fritillary Butterfly
The effects of pathogen-induced pseudoflowers and buttercups on each other's insect visitation
Resource partitioning and community structure: A study of bumblebees in the Colorado Rocky Mountains
Field measures of flower constancy in bumblebees
The effect of proboscis and corolla tube lengths on patterns and rates of flower visitation by bumblebees
Effects of Light Environment on Recovery from Harvest and Antibacterial Properties of Oshá Ligusticum porteri (Apiaceae)
Patterns in plant parthenogenesis
Roles of the wing whistle in the territorial behaviour of male broadtailed hummingbirds (Selasphorus platycercus)
Long-term preformation of leaves and inflorescences by a long-lived perennial monocarp, Frasera speciosa (Gentianaceae)
The use and abuse of pollinators by fungi
Patterns of rust infection as a function of host genetic diversity and host density in natural populations of the apomictic crucifer, <i>Arabis holboellii</i>
The breeding systems of six species of <i>Arabis</i> (Brassicaceae)
Local geographic distributions of bumble bees near Crested Butte, Colorado: Competition and community structure revisited
Olfactory versus visual cues in a floral mimicry system
Pollinators, Flowering Plants, and Conservation Biology
Untangling multiple factors in spatial distributions: Lilies, gophers, and rocks
Host effects on herbivory and pollination in a hemiparasitic plant
Pollinators increase the cost of sex by avoiding female flowers
North American dipteran pollinators: assessing their value and conservation status
Interspecific competition between a non-native metal-hyperaccumulating plant (Noccaea caerulescens, Brassicaceae) and a native congener across a soil-metal gradient
The systematics and evolution of Townsendia (Compositae)
The amino acids of extrafloral nectar from Helianthella quinquenervis (Asteraceae)
Overlap summary indices and the detection of community structure
Environmental sensitivity of sexual and apomictic Antennaria: do apomicts have general-purpose genotypes?
The effects of nonsugar nectar constituents on estimates of nectar energy content
The next century of ecology
Phenology: An Integrative Environmental Science
Cryptic species in the Puccinia monoica complex
Differentiating the effects of origin and frequency in reciprocal transplant experiments used to test negative frequency-dependent selection hypotheses
Why don't more hummingbird-pollinated flowers have dark-colored pollen?
A plant pathogen influences pollinator behavior and may influence reproduction of nonhosts
Implications of different sorts of evidence for competition
Dataset (69) →
Data from: Interannual bumble bee abundance is driven by indirect climate effects on floral resource phenology.
This is an archive of the data used in the publication: Ogilvie JE, Griffin SR, Gezon ZJ, Inouye BD, Underwood N, Inouye DW, Irwin RE. 2017. Interannu...
Paces of species range shifts (R script)
Meta-analysis of montane plant species range shifts in response to climate change.
Meta-analysis of montane plant elevation range shifts in response to climate change
Rates of elevation range shift in montane plants due to climate change collected from the literature. See README.txt for column descriptions.
Data from: Reproductive losses due to climate change-induced earlier flowering are not the primary threat to plant population viability in a perennial herb
1. Despite a global footprint of shifts in flowering phenology in response to climate change, the reproductive consequences of these shifts are poorly...
Reproductive life expectancy (R script)
Analysis of sex differences in Valeriana edulis life expectancy upon reaching sexual maturity and population operational sex ratios.
Data from: Sex-specific responses to climate change in plants alter population sex ratio and performance
Males and females are ecologically distinct in many species, but whether responses to climate change are sex-specific is unknown. We document sex-spec...
Flower number calibration dataset
Calibration dataset to measure and correct for individual observer effects on estimated numbers of flowers. See README.txt for column descriptions.
Focal female data
Measurements of focal females, including proportion of flowers that successfully produced seed. See README.txt for column descriptions.
Dispersal of pollen analogue by Valeriana edulis pollinators
Pollen analogue (fluorescent dye) transfer by Valeriana edulis pollinators from dyed males to surrounding females. See README.txt for column descripti...
Pollination neighborhood survey data
Characteristics of the pollination neighborhoods within a 10m radius of focal females. See README.txt for column descriptions.
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Focal female locations 2015
This .zip archive contains a shapefile (including .shp, .shx, .dbf, and .prj components) that describes the locations of focal females used in 2015 in...
Snowmelt dates across the elevation range of Valeriana edulis
Snowmelt data used to test for an effect of elevation on snowmelt date. See README.txt for column descriptions.
Spatial dispersion of Valeriana edulis plants in four populations
GPS coordinates of Valeriana edulis plants in four populations and their sex. See README.txt for column descriptions.
Focal female locations 2014
This .zip archive contains a shapefile (including .shp, .shx, .dbf, and .prj components) that describes the locations of focal females used in 2014 in...
Metadata for data and analysis scripts
Describes all data files and R analysis scripts.
Water use efficiency (R script)
Analysis of Valeriana edulis sex differences in integrated water use efficiency and population operational sex ratios.
Sex- and size-specific rates of growth and survival in Valeriana edulis
Annual rates of sex- and size-specific growth and survival from tagged plants at four populations (1978-1981). See README.txt for column descriptions.
Valeriana edulis spatial dispersion plot
This .zip archive contains a shapefile (including .shp, .shx, .dbf, and .prj components) that describes the boundary of a representative plot of Valer...
Valeriana edulis spatial dispersion plants
This .zip archive contains a shapefile (including .shp, .shx, .dbf, and .prj components) that describes the locations of all Valeriana edulis plants i...
Integrated water use efficiency by sex in four population of Valeriana edulis
Carbon isotope ratios of Valeriana edulis leaf samples used to test for sex differences in integrated water use efficiency. See README.txt for column ...
Operational sex ratios of Valeriana edulis populations
Operational sex ratios across the elevation range of Valeriana edulis from 1978 and 2011. See README.txt for column descriptions.
Mating function (R script)
Estimation of the mating function – how local operational sex ratio affects female reproductive success – of Valeriana edulis. This script includes a ...
Soil moisture across the elevation range of Valeriana edulis
Climate station data from the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory to test for effect of elevation on soil moisture. See README.txt for column descrip...
Climate analyses (R script)
Analyses of climate change over elevation and time in the study area.
Operational sex ratio analyses (R script)
Analyses of Valeriana edulis operational sex ratios across the species' elevation range and over time (1978-2011).
Species range shifts in response to climate change
Data for meta-analysis of montane plant species range shifts in response to climate change.
Snowmelt dates 1978-2014
Long-term snowmelt data (1978-2014) collected at one mid-elevation location near the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory by billy barr. See README.tx...
Data from: The individual and combined effects of snowmelt timing and frost exposure on the reproductive success of montane forbs
1. Changes from historic weather patterns have affected the phenology of many organisms worldwide. Altered phenology can introduce organisms to novel ...
Appendix C. Relationships between temperature and arrival of Broad-tailed Hummingbirds and flowering onset in its early-season nectar resources at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory in Colorado, USA.
Phenological advancements driven by climate change are especially pronounced at higher latitudes, so that migrants from lower latitudes may increasing...
Temperature, floral density, and Osmia pollen usage data from seven study sites around the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, Colorado: 2013-2022.
Data were collected as part of a study of population dynamics of solitary, cavity-nesting Hymenoptera. Nesting structures ("trap-nests") were establ...
Data from: Temporal scale-dependence of plant-pollinator networks
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Supplementary material from "Shorter seasonal snow cover poses a risk to solitary bee populations in a mountainous ecosystem"
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Data from: Two-year bee, or not two-year bee? How voltinism is affected by temperature and season length in a high-elevation solitary bee
Organisms must often make developmental decisions without complete information about future conditions. This uncertainty—for example, about th...
Data from: Interaction rewiring and the rapid turnover of plant-pollinator networks
Whether species interactions are static or change over time has wide-reaching ecological and evolutionary consequences. However, species interaction n...
Supplementary material from "Nutrient niche dynamics among wild pollinators"
Food underpins fitness and ecological interactions, yet how nutrient availability shapes species interactions in natural communities remains poorly un...
Data from: Fitness costs and benefits of a non-native floral resource for subalpine solitary bees
Organisms inhabiting seasonal environments must fit their life cycle into a limited time window while also synchronizing periods of resource consumpti...
DataScriptsResults
This file contains the data and R scripts to: 1. fit vital rate models, 2. build population projection models, and 3. run stochastic simulations. The ...
Flowering phenology in subalpine meadows: Does climate variation influence community co-flowering patterns?
Climate change is expected to alter patterns of species co-occurrence, in both space and time. Species-specific shifts in reproductive phenology may a...
An examination of synchrony between insect emergence and flowering in Rocky Mountain meadows.
One possible effect of climate change is the generation of a mismatch in the seasonal timing of interacting organisms, owing to species-specific shift...
Early snowmelt and warming experiments to study plant phenology
Phenology - the timing of life events - determines how a species’ life cycle aligns with the abiotic and biotic environment, however, climate change h...
Data from: Asteraceae pollen provisions protect Osmia mason bees (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae) from brood parasitism
Many specialist herbivores eat foods that are apparently low quality. The compensatory benefits of a poor diet may include protection from natural ene...
Colorado Elevation Gradient Snowmelt Manipulation Plant Phenology 2017-2018.
This dataset includes observations of plant phenology at five locations along an elevation gradient in Crested Butte, Colorado. Observations occurred ...
sapygid_pollen_experiment
Many specialist herbivores eat foods that are apparently "low-quality". The compensatory benefits of a poor diet may include protection from natural e...
Flowering phenology and abundance, Gothic, CO, USA, 1973-present
Prof. David Inouye has been collecting data on the abundance and timing of flowers that fall within permanent plots at the Rocky Mountain Biological L...
Phenotypic plasticity and adaptive evolution contribute to advancing flowering phenology in response to climate change
Anthropogenic climate change has already altered the timing of major life history transitions, such as the initiation of reproduction. Both phenotypi...
snowmelt
Data on first day of bare ground (snowmelt date, shown as day of year; 1 Jan = 1) from a long-term snow monitoring plot monitored by billy barr, near ...
Experimental frost damage data for eight subalpine plant species
This file contains data on the frost damage of eight subalpine plant species from the Rocky Mountains of Colorado (USA). These frost damage data can b...
Data from: A global test for phylogenetic signal in shifts in flowering time under climate change
1.Shifts in the timing of flowering are a conspicuous biological signal of climate change. These shifts have been documented across the globe for dive...
Data from: Flying by night: Comparing nocturnal pollinator networks over time in the Colorado Rocky Mountains
Because pollen-transport networks tend to vary widely over short periods of time but remain consistent over longer periods of time, it is important to...
Malaise_trap_ReadME.txt
Data set to accompany the paper " Extensive regional variation in the phenology of insects and their response to temperature across North America" pub...
Malaise_trap_ReadME.txt
Data set to accompany the paper " Extensive regional variation in the phenology of insects and their response to temperature across North America" pub...
Phenological responses to multiple environmental drivers under climate change: insights from a long-term observational study and a manipulative field experiment
Climate change has induced pronounced shifts in the reproductive phenology of plants, yet we know little about which environmental factors contribute ...
Bee phenology is predicted by climatic variation and functional traits
Climate change is shifting the environmental cues that determine the phenology of interacting species. Plant-pollinator systems may be susceptible to ...
Phenological responses to climate change do not exhibit phylogenetic signal in a subalpine plant community
Phylogenetic relationships may underlie species-specific phenological sensitivities to abiotic variation and may help to predict these responses to cl...
Long-term bee phenology and abundance data at the RMBL, Gothic, Colorado
Prof. Rebecca (Becky) Irwin has been collecting data on the abundance and timing of bees in permanent sites near the Rocky Mountain Biological Lab (RM...
sapygid_parasitism_2008-2015
Incidence of parasitism by sapygid wasps on species of Osmia using different types of pollen, based on trapnests established at multiple field sites b...
The effect of demographic correlations on the stochastic population dynamics of perennial plants
Understanding the influence of environmental variability on population dynamics is a fundamental goal of ecology. Theory suggests that, for population...
Frost sensitivity of leaves and flowers of subalpine plants is related to tissue type and phenology
Harsh abiotic conditions–such as low temperatures that lead to spring and summer frost events in high-elevation and high-latitude ecosystems&nda...
Supplement 1. Temperature and light data recorded at trap-nest sites, 2007–2010.
File List temp_data.txt light_data.txt Description Both files are tab-delimited text files. Temperatures (in degrees Celsius) were recorded in 2007–20...
Temperature influences pollinator' choice of floral partners independently of community composition
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Data from: Drivers of spring migration phenology in Rocky Mountain elk
By migrating, ungulates take advantage of cyclical fluctuations in resources, which allows them to persist at greater population numbers than they wou...
Herbarium specimens reliably track plant phenological responses to climate change in understudied montane biomes
File: Peng_et_al._20206.zip Description: There are three folders here. The Data folder contains the raw specimen phenology data and the RMBL phenology...
Appendix B. Phenological shifts and phenological sensitivity to snowmelt date and summer temperature data used in analyses.
Phylogenetic relationships may underlie species-specific phenological sensitivities to abiotic variation and may help to predict these responses to cl...
Long-term flowering phenology and abundance data at Gothic, Colorado
<p>Prof. David Inouye has been collecting data on the abundance and timing of flowers that fall within permanent plots at the Rocky Mountain Biologica...
stemkov/pheno_skew: Phenological skews
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Phenology of selected cavity-nesting Hymenoptera and flowering plant taxa in the Colorado Rocky Mountains from 2008 to 2010.
Data come from fourteen sites in the West Elk Mountains of Colorado, USA. The study aimed to identify the factors regulating phenology of plants and c...
Data for: The impacts of bioenergy pine plantation management practices on bee communities
1. Cultivation of bioenergy feedstocks is a growing land-use worldwide, yet we have a poor understanding of how bioenergy crop management practices af...
Rocky Mountain Biological Laboraory flowering phenology (Inouye plots)
These data have been collected by David Inouye almost every year since 1973 at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory.
Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory flowering phenology (Inouye plots)
These data have been collected by David Inouye almost every year since 1973 at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, Gothic, Colorado, altitude ab...