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Ecohydrologic Controls of Sub-Alpine Forest Soil Respiration

Principal Investigator: Austin Simonpietri
Status: active
Field: Earth Systems Science
Research Areas: Biogeochemistry; Climate change; Long-term research; Microbiology; Phenology; Plant biology; Soil/microbial ecology; Snow Science
Items: 50 (37 publications, 7 datasets, 6 documents)

Publications (37)

Article

Canopy structure modulates the sensitivity of subalpine forest stands to interannual snowpack and precipitation variability

2025Hydrology and Earth System ScienceDOI: 10.5194/hess-29-701-2025
Article

Interannual precipitation controls on soil CO2 fluxes in high elevation conifer and aspen forests

2023Environmental Research LettersDOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/ad07b5
Thesis

Forest carbon cycling along an elevation gradient: the influence of species and climate

2003
Thesis

Global climate change and ecosystem carbon storage: an experimental investigation of ecologically-mediated feedbacks to climate in montane meadows

1998
Book

Ecosystem Consequences of Soil Warming

2019
Student Paper

The ecological dynamics of alpine krummholz

1970
Student Paper

A brief study of CO2 and methane flux of a sub-alpine meadow, RMBL

1990
Article

Methane consumption by montane soils: implications for positive and negative feedback with climate change

1996BiogeochemistryDOI: 10.1007/bf00001532
Publication

Climate-ecosystem interactions in montane meadows

2002
Student Paper

A biogeophysical study of the plant-soil interface in varied habitats

1983
Student Paper

Factors in the recovery of a disturbed sub-alpine site

1987
Student Paper

Production and productivity in an alpine tundra ecosystem

1980
Article

Gas exhange and water relations of two Rocky Mountain shrub species exposed to a climate change manipulation

2000Plant EcologyDOI: 10.1023/a:1009863201751
Student Paper

Trapping the litter: a negative feedback of climate change in the litter quality of montane vegetation in the Rocky Mountains

2008
Student Paper

Herbivory patterns in response to climate change in a sub-alpine meadow

1998
Article

Phenology of high-altitude climates

2013Phenology: An Integrative Environmental Science
Thesis

Plant distributions along alpine moisture gradients: the roles of competition and physiological tolerances

1986
Article

Factors in recovery of subalpine vegetation studied (Colorado)

1992Restoration and Management Notes
Thesis

Physiography and Plant Ecology of a Subalpine Earthflow, Gunnison County, Colorado

1949
Student Paper

The effect of sub-surface strata on ground cover

1940
Student Paper

Change in terrestrial vegetation and the relating consequences for stream communities

1995
Student Paper

Integration of disturbed ecosystems in areas of high altitudes

1992
Thesis

Ecosystem responses to warming-induced plant species loss and increased nitrogen availability in a Rocky Mountain subalpine meadow

2006
Article

Responses of soil and water chemistry to mountain pine beetle induced tree mortality in Grand County, Colorado, USA

2011Applied GeochemistryDOI: 10.1016/j.apgeochem.2011.03.096
Student Paper

Effects of climatological factos on annual growth of shrubby species of the rocky mountains

2002
Article

Effects of manipulated soil microclimate on mesofaunal biomass and diversity

1996Soil Biology and BiochemistryDOI: 10.1016/0038-0717(95)00139-5
Student Paper

Crassulacean acid metabolism: a preliminary study at high altitude

1990
Thesis

Climate change impacts on community and ecosystem properties: Integrating manipulations and gradient studies in montane meadows

2000
Article

Microclimate amelioration may be critical to recovery of subalpine ecosystems (Colorado)

1993Restoration and Management Notes
Article

Changes in water relations for leaves exposed to a climate-warming manipulation in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado

1997Environmental and Experimental BiologyDOI: 10.1016/s0098-8472(96)01043-x
Chapter

Dynamics of Lotic Ecosystems

1983
Student Paper

A report on aspen ecotones

1970
Student Paper

Comparisons of invertebrate populations of the herb layers of the alpine and subalpine zones

1947
Student Paper

Variations in montane meadow flora (especially <i>Poa interior</i>) with moisture

1973
Student Paper

Biodiversity and ecosystem function: correlations among aboveground biomass, species richness, and soil organic matter

1997
Student Paper

Ecological report concerning the spruce-fir climax forest and related areas

1954
Student Paper

How grazing affects the height and diversity of vegetation in a sub-alpine meadow

1982