Assessing drivers of vegetation functional change

Principal Investigator: Brian Enquist

Status: active

Field: Biology

Research Areas: Climate change; Community ecology; Hydrology; Long-term research; Modeling; Plant biology; Soil/microbial ecology; Snow Science; Species Interactions; Theory

Assessing drivers of vegetation functional change

Publications (68)

Rare species do not disproportionately contribute to phylogenetic diversity in a subalpine plant community

Satellite-derived foresummer drought sensitivity of plant productivity in Rocky Mountain headwater catchments: spatial heterogeneity and geological-geomorphological control

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

Scaling from traits to ecosystems: Developing a general trait driver theory via integrating trait-based and metabolic scaling theories

The effect of the foresummer drought on carbon exchange in subalpine meadows

Functional trait space and the latitudinal diversity gradient

Revisiting Darwin's hypothesis: Does greater intraspecific variability increase species' ecological breadth?

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

X-ray imaging of leaf venation networks

Change in terrestrial vegetation and the relating consequences for stream communities

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

Plant community structure as a function of grazing by cattle

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

Climate-ecosystem interactions in montane meadows

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

Challenges in Building an End-to-End System for Acquisition, Management, and Integration of Diverse Data From Sensor Networks in Watersheds: Lessons From a Mountainous Community Observatory in East River, Colorado

Does environmental heterogeneity drive functional trait variation? A test in montane and alpine meadows

Temperature response of soil respiration largely unaltered with experimental warming

Observed forest sensitivity to climate implies large changes in 21st century North American forest growth

The energetic and carbon economic origins of leaf thermoregulation

Inferring climate from angiosperm leaf venation networks

Controls on radial growth of mountain big sagebrush and implications for climate change

Microbes on mountainsides: contrasting elevational patterns of bacterial and plant diversity

Contest behaviour in Weidemeyers admiral butterfly <i>Limenitis weidemeyerii</i>(Nymphalidae): the effect of size and residency

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

Community structural and compositional variability on a microsite basis

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

Factors in the recovery of a disturbed sub-alpine site

Effects of human-made trails on local vegetative diversity

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

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

A look at leaf litter diversity in a grazed and non-grazed aspen grove

Integration of disturbed ecosystems in areas of high altitudes

A comparison of vegetational maturity and succession rates in an avalanche area

A report on aspen ecotones

The species-area relationship and spatial turnover

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

Dynamics of Lotic Ecosystems

Report on disturbed and undisturbed aspen communities

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

Biological Approaches and Evolutionary Trends in Plants

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

Plant and animal succession in an old burn

Natural history of a talus/aspen grove ecotone

Leaf venation networks link climate change to plant form and function

Biotic and abiotic drivers of plant-pollinator interaction rewiring

Ecosystem Consequences of Soil Warming

Rehabilitating Damaged Ecosystems

The effect of sub-surface strata on ground cover

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

Datasets (11)

Data from: Disentangling the relative importance of species occurrence, abundance and intraspecific variability in community assembly: a trait-based approach at the whole-plant level in Mediterranean forests

Plant height and species information

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

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

Data from: Are leaf functional traits “invariant” with plant size, and what is “invariance” anyway?

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

Appendix 2 (CSV)

Data from: Community assembly and functional diversity along succession post-management

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

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

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

Documents (9)

Application of Monitoring for Producers

Dynamic Planning for Community Change

Wildlife Impacts

Beaver Management in Grazed Riparian Ecosystems

Moist Forests

A New Hydrologic Perspective of How Beaver Ponds Function

Areawide Conservation Planning Primer

Sudden Aspen Decline in Colorado

Forest Plan for 15 Plus Years