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Plant community dynamics in a changing environment

Principal Investigator: Benjamin Blonder
Status: active
Field: Ecology and Evolutionary biology
Research Areas: Climate change; Genetics; Landscape biology; Long-term research; Modeling; Plant biology; Species Interactions
Items: 95 (72 publications, 13 datasets, 10 documents)

Publications (72)

Thesis

Biotic and abiotic drivers of plant-pollinator interaction rewiring

2023
Thesis

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

2023
Article

Climate lags and genetics determine phenology in quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides)

2023New PhytologistDOI: 10.1111/nph.18850
Article

Linking microenvironment modification to species interactions and demography in an alpine plant community

2023OikosDOI: 10.1111/oik.09235
Article

Remote sensing of cytotype and its consequences for canopy damage in quaking aspen

2022Global Change BiologyDOI: 10.1111/gcb.16064
Publication

Carrying the moral burden of safe fieldwork

2022Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America
Article

Cytotype and genotype predict mortality and recruitment in Colorado quaking aspen (<i> Populus tremuloides </i>)

2021Ecological ApplicationsDOI: 10.1002/eap.2438
Article

Shifting macroecological patterns and static theory failure in a stressed alpine plant community

2021EcosphereDOI: 10.1002/ecs2.3548
Article

Low predictability of energy balance traits and leaf temperature metrics in desert, montane and alpine plant communities

2020Functional EcologyDOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.13643
Article

Remote sensing of ploidy level in quaking aspen (<i>Populus tremuloides</i> Michx.)

2020Journal of Ecology
Article

TRY plant trait database - enhanced coverage and open access

2020Global Change BiologyDOI: 10.1111/gcb.14904
Article

Plant functional trait change across a warming tundra biome

2018NatureDOI: 10.1038/s41586-018-0563-7
Article

A model for leaf temperature decoupling from air temperature

2018Agricultural and Forest MeteorologyDOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2018.07.012
Article

Microenvironment and functional-trait context dependence predict plant community dynamics

2018Journal of EcologyDOI: 10.1111/1365-2745.12973
Article

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

2018Journal of Biogeography
Article

Functional trait space and the latitudinal diversity gradient

2014PNASDOI: 10.1073/pnas.1317722111
Article

Assessing the causes and scales of the leaf economics spectrum using venation networks in <i>Populus tremuloides</i>

2013Journal of EcologyDOI: 10.1111/1365-2745.12102
Article

X-ray imaging of leaf venation networks

2012New PhytologistDOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2012.04355.x
Thesis

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

2015
Student Paper

Change in terrestrial vegetation and the relating consequences for stream communities

1995
Thesis

Organization of a plant-pollinator community in a seasonal environment

1984
Student Paper

Community structural and compositional variability on a microsite basis

1992
Student Paper

Plant community structure as a function of grazing by cattle

1995
Student Paper

The success of transplanted plants in a damaged ecosystem

1992
Student Paper

Effects of altered aquatic ecosystems on the surrounding floral community

1992
Student Paper

Plant and animal succession in an old burn

1950
Publication

Climate-ecosystem interactions in montane meadows

2002
Chapter

Dynamics of Lotic Ecosystems

1983
Student Paper

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

1997
Chapter

Biological Approaches and Evolutionary Trends in Plants

1990
Chapter

Perspectives on plant competition

1990
Student Paper

Reproductive efforts of plants along an altitudinal gradient

1973
Student Paper

A contrast of the vascular vegetation found in an old sagebrush community and a new one

1970
Chapter

Ecological studies: population viability in plants: conservation, management, and modeling of rare plants

2003
Student Paper

Vascular plant species of talus slope and their dispersal patterns

1996
Student Paper

Floral succession in a spruce-fir forest

1971
Student Paper

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

1983
Thesis

Analysis of temporal change in high-elevation plant community composition, East River Basin, Colorado, USA.

2015
Student Paper

A study of distribution and succession of bryophyta and lichen in a specific microhabitat

1971
Thesis

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

2000
Student Paper

The species-area relationship and spatial turnover

1996
Student Paper

Natural history of a talus/aspen grove ecotone

1975
Student Paper

Plant succession on a permanet rock slide, compared to that of a more recent one

1940
Student Paper

Integration of disturbed ecosystems in areas of high altitudes

1992
Article

Plant communities of the Gothic area and their successional relations

1941Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America
Chapter

Effects of Resource Distribution on Animal-Plant Interactions

1992
Student Paper

Plant colonization of talus islands

1983
Student Paper

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

1998
Student Paper

The occurrence of annuals and perennials in a subalpine system

1983
Student Paper

The ecological dynamics of alpine krummholz

1970

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Datasets (13)

Dataset

Plant height and species information

2017DOI: 10.5061/dryad.772h7/2
Dataset

Data from: Linking microenvironment modification to species interactions and demography in an alpine plant community

2023DOI: 10.6078/D1342B
Dataset

Data from: Microenvironment and functional-trait context dependence predict alpine plant community dynamics

2018DOI: 10.5061/dryad.33410
Dataset

natural_populations_individual

2018DOI: 10.5061/dryad.q0032/1
Dataset

Data from: Aboveground resilience to species loss but belowground resistance to nitrogen addition in a montane plant community

2017DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.4719199.v1
Dataset

Data from: Interaction rewiring and the rapid turnover of plant-pollinator networks

2018DOI: 10.5061/dryad.s91p4
Dataset

greenhouse_experiment

2018DOI: 10.5061/dryad.q0032/6
Dataset

Plant census and microenvironment dataset from Mt. Baldy, Colorado, USA, 2014-2017

2020DOI: 10.5285/d850fcd2-b70a-415e-acf4-fc27b38d59c1
Dataset

Data for Context-dependent biotic interactions control plant abundance across altitudinal environmental gradients, 2014, 2016, Colorado, USA

2020DOI: 10.6073/pasta/953d0af267ddb6a0ddb970bff3218a61
Dataset

natural_populations_plot

2018DOI: 10.5061/dryad.q0032/2
Dataset

common_garden

2018DOI: 10.5061/dryad.q0032/3
Dataset

Data for: Increasing aridity may threaten the maintenance of a plant defense polymorphism

2025DOI: 10.5061/dryad.18931zd4s
Dataset

bblonder/aspen_neon: Code supporting Blonder et al., "Remote sensing of cytotype and its consequences for canopy damage in quaking aspen"

2021DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5800132