Warming and Species interactions

Part of: WaRM (Warming and Removal in Mountains)

Principal Investigator: Aimee Classen

Status: active

Field: Ecology and Evolutionary biology

Research Areas: Biogeochemistry; Climate change; Community ecology; Food web biology; Long-term research; Microbiomes; Microbiology; Modeling; Phenology; Plant biology; Soil/microbial ecology; Species Interactions

Warming and Species interactions

Publications (61)

Context dependence of warming induced shifts in montane soil microbial functions

Integrating natural gradients, experiments, and statistical modeling in a distributed network experiment: An example from the WaRM Network

Plant removal across an elevational gradient marginally reduces rates, substantially reduces variation in mineralization

Climate and multiple dimensions of plant diversity regulate ecosystem carbon exchange along an elevational gradient

Fungal colonization of plant roots is resistant to nitrogen addition and resilient to dominant species losses

Consistently inconsistent drivers of patterns of microbial diversity and abundance at macroecological scales

Quantifying global soil carbon losses in response to warming

Biotic and abiotic drivers of plant-pollinator interaction rewiring

Global Warming and Biodiversity

Wildlife Responses to Climate Change: North American Case Studies

Ecosystem Consequences of Soil Warming

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

The effect of global warming on soil mesofauna

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

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

Avian species interactions vs. niche

The species-area relationship and spatial turnover

A meta-analysis of 1,119 manipulative experiments on terrestrial carbon-cycling responses to global change

Multiple models and experiments underscore large uncertainty in soil carbon dynamics

Elevation alters ecosystem properties across temperate treelines globally

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

Climate-ecosystem interactions in montane meadows

Effects of Resource Distribution on Animal-Plant Interactions

Behavioral ecology and conservation biology

Ecological aspects of social evolution

Organization of a plant-pollinator community in a seasonal environment

Global change implications of adaption to climatic variability

Life in the Cold: Ecological, Physiological and Molecular Mechanisms

Phenology: An Integrative Environmental Science

Global warming and terrestrial ecosystems: response from Harte

Global change and mountain regions

Mammal fauna species diversity, distribution and microhabitat selection

Model ecosystems in behavioral ecology

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

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

Population and community consequences of ecological differences between the sexes.

Perspectives in Biophysical Ecology

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

The influence of different types of disturbance on insect diversity

Ecological Aspects of Social Evolution

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

Predicting climate-induced shifts in burying beetle distributions: integrating niche partitioning, competition, and thermal performance

Competition and cooperation in plant/pollinator systems

Topoclimatic habitat models

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.

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

Evolutionary Ecology: Concepts and Case Studies

Change in terrestrial vegetation and the relating consequences for stream communities

Insights into butterfly ecology and evolution

Datasets (6)

Osmia_iridis_summer_duration_expt_2014-15

Forrest_HOBO_data_May2013-Dec2016

Plant phenology, aphid colony growth, and honeydew deposition data

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

Plant height and species information

Osmia_iridis_2015_summer_incubator_expt

Documents (9)

Beavers: Biologists "Rediscover" a Natural Resource

Beavers and Their Control

Beaver Management in Grazed Riparian Ecosystems

Moist Forests

Effect of Keystone Mine Effluent on Colonization of Stream Benthos

Application of Monitoring for Producers

Dynamic Planning for Community Change

Community Leadership and Change

Colorado Environmental Commission Recommendations for the Immediate Action