The Spatial Ecology of Environmental Change in the Upper Gunnison Watershed

Principal Investigator: Ian Breckheimer

Status: active

Field: Ecology and Evolutionary biology

Research Areas: Atmospheric Science; Climate change; Community ecology; Hydrology; Landscape biology; Modeling; Phenology; Plant biology; Pollination; Snow Science

The Spatial Ecology of Environmental Change in the Upper Gunnison Watershed

Publications (58)

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

A Bayesian record linkage approach to applications in tree demography using overlapping LiDAR scans

Model and remote-sensing-guided experimental design and hypothesis generation for monitoring snow-soil–plant interactions

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

Integrating airborne remote sensing and field campaigns for ecology and Earth system science

Rocky Mountain Biological Lab. Ecology of Place: Making Ecology and Evolutionary Biology spatially explicit

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

A vegetation study on an earthflow in Gunnison County, Colorado

Flora of the Gunnison basin: a study in the distribution of plants

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

Vegetation and environmental patterns in the Crested Butte area, Gunnison County, Colorado

A Rocky Mountain Test of the River Continuum Concept

Sensitive plant species in the upper Gunnison basin

Flora of the Gunnison Basin, A study in plant distribution

Changes in Aspen Communities Over 30 Year in Gunnison County, Colorado

An alpine test of the river continuum concept

Change in terrestrial vegetation and the relating consequences for stream communities

Plant-Ecological Reconnaissance of the Crested Butte Area, Gunnison County, Colorado

Climate-ecosystem interactions in montane meadows

Habitat ecology of elk herds in the Alkali Creek Basin, Gunnison County, Colorado

Water Quality of the Upper East River and Copper Creek, Gunnison County, Colorado

Relationships between atmospheric circulation and snowpack in the Gunnison River basin, Colorado

Floristic Inventory of the Northern Gunnison Basin

Restoring Colorado River Ecosystems: A Troubled Sense of Immensity

A river no more — the Colorado River and the west

Phytogeography of the eastern mountain front in Colorado ...

Adaptation and gene flow are insufficient to rescue a montane plant under climate change

Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, Gothic CO Ecology of Place: Making Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Spatially Explicit

Dynamics of Lotic Ecosystems

Our Upper Colorado River Project

Biologically Significant Areas in Gunnison County Colorado

Values and choices in the development of the Colorado river basin

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

A report on aspen ecotones

The influence of edge effects on aquatic invertebrate diversity in the streams of the East River Valley of Colorado

Enviromental Assessment of the Gothic & Vicinity Gunnison County, Co

Species diversity as distance increases from the edge of man-made disturbances on Mt. Crested Butte

Evaluation of mitigated wetlands, Gunnison, CO

Global change and mountain regions

Alpine aberrations in the river continuum concept

Natural history of a talus/aspen grove ecotone

Stream Ecology: Application and Testing of General Ecological Theory

Reimagining river governance: Insights from the Colorado river crisis

Folsom adaptive systems in the Upper Gunnison Basin, Colorado: An analysis of the Mountaineer site.

Ecologists seek to turn tide on Colorado River

A comparative study: water chemistry, species richness and abundance in freshwater springs of Gunnison County

The zones of vegetation of west-central Colorado

A study of the phenology and microhabitat selection of flowering plants along the East River in Gothic, Colorado

Persistence of high elevation fens in the Southern Rocky Mountains, on Grand Mesa, Colorado, U.S.A.

Integration of disturbed ecosystems in areas of high altitudes

Datasets (4)

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Species range shifts in response to climate change

Paces of species range shifts (R script)

Climate analyses (R script)

Documents (12)

Charting the Future of the Colorado River’s Undeveloped Waters

Alamosa River Watershed Project

Soil and Water Conservation in Colorado

Gunnison River Basin Facts

Colorado Environment Depends on the Use of its Land

Some Factors Historically Affecting The Distribution and Abundance of Fishes In The Gunnison River

Colorado?s Alpine Ecosystem Health ? A Case Study on San Juan, Sawatch, and West Elk Mountains

An Analysis of Growth and Development in the Unincorporated Portions of the East River Valley and Gunnison Urban Area

A Classification of the Riparian Vegetation of the Gunnison River Basin, Colorado

Atmospheric Carrying Capacity of the Gunnison Valley, Colorado

Mount Emmons Aquatic Ecology Baseline Studies

Ecological Integrity, New Western Myth