Long-term study of wildflowers

Part of: Underwood-Inouye Long-term Phenology

Principal Investigator: David Inouye

Status: active

Field: Ecology and Evolutionary biology

Research Areas: Climate change; Community ecology; Long-term research; Phenology; Plant biology; Pollination; Species Interactions; Vertebrate biology

Long-term study of wildflowers

Publications (118)

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

Techniques for Pollination Biologists

Climate change and phenology

Winters are changing: snow effects on Arctic and alpine tundra ecosystems

Support early-career field researchers

Phenology: An Integrative Environmental Science

Activity and abundance of bumble bees near Crested Butte, CO: diel, seasonal, and elevation effects

Mosquitoes: more likely nectar thieves than pollinators

Effects of climate change on phenology, frost damage, and floral abundance of montane wildflowers

Climate change is affecting altitudinal migrants and hibernating species

Are nectar robbers cheaters or mutualists?

Prceedings of the International Symposium on Pollination in Tropics

Effects of snowpack on the timing and abundance of flowering in Delphinium nelsonii: implications for climate change

Up high, hot and dry: Individual reproductive output in subalpine bees declines with increasing drought severity

Phenology: An Integrative Environmental Science

Long-term declines in insect abundance and biomass in a subalpine habitat

Extensive regional variation in the phenology of insects and their response to temperature across North America

Current and lagged climate affects phenology across diverse taxonomic groups

Climate data from the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory (1975–2022)

Skewness in bee and flower phenological distributions

Life-history traits predict responses of wild bees to climate variation

Lagged and dormant season climate better predict plant vital rates than climate during the growing season

Effects of climate change on alpine plants and their pollinators

Bee phenology is predicted by climatic variation and functional traits

Wild hummingbirds discriminate nonspectral colors

Towards a U.S. national program for monitoring native bees

Field Research in the Time of the Pandemic

Reproductive losses due to climate change? Induced earlier flowering are not the primary threat to plant population viability in a perennial herb

Phenology as a process rather than an event: from individual reaction norms to community metrics

The individual and combined effects of snowmelt timing and frost exposure on the reproductive success of montane forbs

Effects of Climate Change on Birds

Spectacle in the meadows

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

Direct and indirect effects of episodic frost on plants growth and reproduction in subalpine wildflowers

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

Confounding effects of spatial variation on shifts in phenology

Detrending phenological time series improves climate-phenology analyses and reveals evidence of plasticity

Interannual bumble bee abundance is driven by indirect climate effects on floral resource phenology

A statistical estimator for determining the limits of contemporary and historic phenology

Multitrophic interactions mediate theÂ effects ofÂ climate change onÂ herbivore abundance

Phenological responses to multiple environmental drivers under climate change: insights from a long-term observational study and a manipulative field experiment

The effect of demographic correlations on the stochastic population dynamics of perennial plants

Phenological change in a spring ephemeral: implications for pollination and plant fitness

Sex-specific responses to climate change in plants alter population sex ratios and performance.

Effects of climate change on phenologies and distributions of bumble bees and the plants they visit

Phenological responses to climate change do not exhibit phylogenetic signal in a subalpine plant community

Interspecific competition between a non-native metal-hyperaccumulating plant (Noccaea caerulescens, Brassicaceae) and a native congener across a soil-metal gradient

The effect of repeated, lethal sampling on wild bee abundance and diversity

Bears benefit plants via a cascade with both antagonistic and mutualistic interactions

The next century of ecology

Datasets (9)

Plant height and species information

Rocky Mountain Biological Laboraory flowering phenology (Inouye plots)

Dispersal of pollen analogue by Valeriana edulis pollinators

Pollination neighborhood survey data

Osmia_iridis_summer_duration_expt_2014-15

Long-term flowering time at the plot level

Flowering phenology and abundance, Gothic, CO, USA, 1973-present

Yearly bee catch data

Long-term flowering_year

Documents (1)

Wildlife Impacts