The Impact of Climate Change on Ecosystem Structure and Function

Principal Investigator: Olivia Vought

Status: active

Field: Ecology and Evolutionary biology

Research Areas: Climate change; Community ecology; Microbiology; Phenology; Plant biology; Soil/microbial ecology; Snow Science; Species Interactions

The Impact of Climate Change on Ecosystem Structure and Function

Publications (50)

Biotic and abiotic drivers of plant-pollinator interaction rewiring

Ecosystem Consequences of Soil Warming

Global Warming and Biodiversity

Climate-ecosystem interactions in montane meadows

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

Wildlife Responses to Climate Change: North American Case Studies

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

Change in terrestrial vegetation and the relating consequences for stream communities

Global change implications of adaption to climatic variability

Effects of altered aquatic ecosystems on the surrounding floral community

Effects of frost on wildflowers: an unexpected consequence of climate change

The effect of global warming on soil mesofauna

The use and misuse of species area relationship in predicting climate-driven extinction

Global Climate Change Induced Shifts in Water Availability Alter Pollinator Visitation.

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

Global warming and terrestrial ecosystems: response from Harte

From populations to ecosystems: studies on the distribution, importance, and loss of biodiversity

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

Causes and consequences of plant responses to environmental change over physiological, ecological, and evolutionary time.

Perturbations in plant-pollinator networks: Integrating theoretical and empirical approaches to understand responses to global change

The effects of drought on subalpine floral community diversity

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

The influence of different types of disturbance on insect diversity

Plant and insect diversity and abundance: resilience in response to human disturbance

The Role of Arthropods in Forest Ecosystems

Dynamics of Lotic Ecosystems

Nature's Services: Societal Dependence on Natural Ecosystems

Effects of Resource Distribution on Animal-Plant Interactions

Leaf venation networks link climate change to plant form and function

The impact of artificially creating an elk wintering ground on plant species diversity

Rehabilitating Damaged Ecosystems

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

Life in the Cold: Ecological, Physiological and Molecular Mechanisms

Effects of microclimate, dispersal, species interactions, and environmental stochasticity on demography

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

Integration of disturbed ecosystems in areas of high altitudes

Tracking changes in montane butterfly populations through the lens of climate change

Timing is everything: Phenological change and the implications for plants, pollinators and their interactions.

The variation in tree growth performance relative to a climate change along an elevation gradient

Perspectives in Biophysical Ecology

Ecological restoration: a solution or a problem?

A report on aspen ecotones

Global change and mountain regions

The species-area relationship and spatial turnover

Design and Analysis of Ecological Experiments

Plant community structure as a function of grazing by cattle

Towards a More Exact Ecology

Production and productivity in an alpine tundra ecosystem

Organization of a plant-pollinator community in a seasonal environment

The Ecology of Place: Contributions of Place-Based Research to Ecological Understanding

Datasets (1)

Data from: Size-related scaling of tree form and function in a mixed-age forest

Documents (10)

Wildlife Impacts

Riparian Restoration Using Hydrologic Manipulation and Physical Disturbance

Beaver Management in Grazed Riparian Ecosystems

Dynamic Planning for Community Change

Moist Forests

Beavers: Biologists "Rediscover" a Natural Resource

Application of Monitoring for Producers

Effect of Keystone Mine Effluent on Colonization of Stream Benthos

Colorado Environment Depends on the Use of its Land

Colorado Environmental Commission Recommendations for the Immediate Action