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Climate effects on forest structure, dynamics and hydrologic function

Principal Investigator: Lara Kueppers
Status: active
Field: Earth Systems Science
Research Areas: Climate change; Landscape biology; Long-term research; Modeling; Plant biology
Items: 65 (54 publications, 5 datasets, 6 documents)

Publications (54)

Thesis

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

2003
Article

Abiotic influences on continuous conifer forest structure across a subalpine watershed

2025Remote Sensing of EnvironmentDOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2024.114587
Publication

A Brief Escape to Normalcy: A Summer at RMBL

2020Mountain Views Chronicle
Article

Insight from Integration

2012Nature
Article

Subalpine forest carbon cycling: Short- and long-term influence of climate and species

2005Ecological ApplicationsDOI: 10.1890/04-1769
Article

Dead wood biomass and turnover time, measured by radiocarbon, along a subalpine elevation gradient

2004OecologiaDOI: 10.1007/s00442-004-1689-x
Student Paper

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

1998
Student Paper

Change in terrestrial vegetation and the relating consequences for stream communities

1995
Publication

Climate-ecosystem interactions in montane meadows

2002
Student Paper

Ecological report concerning the spruce-fir climax forest and related areas

1954
Student Paper

The ecological dynamics of alpine krummholz

1970
Book

Ecosystem Consequences of Soil Warming

2019
Student Paper

Effects of climatological factos on annual growth of shrubby species of the rocky mountains

2002
Thesis

Leaf venation networks link climate change to plant form and function

2014
Article

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

2019Nature Ecology & EvolutiionDOI: 10.1038/s41559-019-0958-3
Thesis

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

2015
Thesis

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

2000
Student Paper

Climatic variability in the Gothic area based upon tree ring analysis

1971
Student Paper

Succession by conifers in aspen forests

1973
Thesis

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

1998
Student Paper

A report on aspen ecotones

1970
Student Paper

The response of aspen to invasion by a spruce-fir community

1987
Student Paper

Effects of avalanche intensity on <i>Populus tremuloides</i> density

1995
Student Paper

Floral succession in a spruce-fir forest

1971
Chapter

Dynamics of Lotic Ecosystems

1983
Student Paper

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

1998
Student Paper

Relationship of mist netting capture rates in aspen woods to levels of insolation, precipitation and temperature fluctuations

1982
Chapter

The Role of Arthropods in Forest Ecosystems

1977
Student Paper

The effects of drought on subalpine floral community diversity

2021
Student Paper

Report on disturbed and undisturbed aspen communities

1954
Chapter

Global Warming and Biodiversity

1992
Thesis

Global change implications of adaption to climatic variability

2010
Article

Changes in water relations for leaves exposed to a climate-warming manipulation in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado

1997Environmental and Experimental BiologyDOI: 10.1016/s0098-8472(96)01043-x
Student Paper

The effect of aspen stand size on avian diversity

1985
Chapter

Global change and mountain regions

2005
Thesis

Effects of early snowmelt on plant phenophase timing and duration across an elevation gradient

2021
Student Paper

Relative Strengths of Spatial and Temporal Variation in Precipitation on Specific Leaf Area.

2014
Student Paper

Natural history of a talus/aspen grove ecotone

1975
Publication

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

2011
Publication

Topoclimatic habitat models

2000
Student Paper

Factors in the recovery of a disturbed sub-alpine site

1987
Student Paper

Trapping the litter: a negative feedback of climate change in the litter quality of montane vegetation in the Rocky Mountains

2008
Student Paper

The effect of sub-surface strata on ground cover

1940
Article

Gas exhange and water relations of two Rocky Mountain shrub species exposed to a climate change manipulation

2000Plant EcologyDOI: 10.1023/a:1009863201751
Chapter

Wildlife Responses to Climate Change: North American Case Studies

2001
Student Paper

Preferential Placement vs. Selective Mortality of Aspen Ramets in Canopy and Canopy Gap

1999
Article

Phenology of high-altitude climates

2013Phenology: An Integrative Environmental Science
Student Paper

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

1996
Thesis

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

2023
Student Paper

A comparative population study of an avalanche site and the neighboring standing forest

1993

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