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Plant-Herbivore Interactions Along Elevational Gradients
Publications (72)
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Abiotic mediation of a mutualism drives herbivore abundance.
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Decomposing an elevational gradient in predation by insectivorous birds
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Host plant phenology shapes aphid abundance and interactions with ants
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The Evolution and Ecology of Interactions Between Ants and Honeydew-Producing Hemipteran Insects
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Snow melt timing acts independently and in conjunction with temperature accumulation to drive subalpine plant phenology
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Tests for Elevational Gradients in Herbivore Abundance and Plant Resistance in the Rocky Mountain Ecosystem
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Are ants botanists? Ant associative learning of plant chemicals mediates foraging for carbohydrates
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Plant chemical mediation of ant behavior
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Progressive sensitivity of trophic levels to warming underlies an elevational gradient in ant–aphid mutualism strength
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Elevational cline in herbivore abundance driven by a monotonic increase in trophic level sensitivity to aridity
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Mechanisms underlying plant sexual dimorphism in multi-trophic arthropod communities
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Influence of macronutrient imbalance on native ant foraging and interspecific interactions in the field
Student Paper
Influence of host plant height and distribution on herbivory patterns
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Herbivory patterns in response to climate change in a sub-alpine meadow
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Effects of Resource Distribution on Animal-Plant Interactions
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Climate-ecosystem interactions in montane meadows
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Reproductive efforts of plants along an altitudinal gradient
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Plant community structure as a function of grazing by cattle
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The Commonality of Herbivorous Trophic Links with Regard to Spatial Scale
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How grazing affects the height and diversity of vegetation in a sub-alpine meadow
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The effects of cattle grazing on montane meadows
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A survey of herbivorous insect species along a phylogenetic gradient
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Integration of disturbed ecosystems in areas of high altitudes
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Interspecific competition in Rocky Mountain meadow flora
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Forest carbon cycling along an elevation gradient: the influence of species and climate
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Comparisons of invertebrate populations of the herb layers of the alpine and subalpine zones
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Responses to herbivory in <i>Ipomopsis aggregata</i>; implications for fitness and biotic interactions
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The role of fly pollination in montane habitats
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Plant distributions along alpine moisture gradients: the roles of competition and physiological tolerances
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Specificity of pollinators in mountain meadows
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The ecological dynamics of alpine krummholz
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Vascular plant species of talus slope and their dispersal patterns
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Field Estimation of food-web complexity in a sub-alpine meadow
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Herbivory in sun versus shade: patterns at the aspen-grassland interface
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Climate change impacts on community and ecosystem properties: Integrating manipulations and gradient studies in montane meadows
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The effects of ungulate herbivory on phenology, pollination, and reproductive success in <i>Ipomopsis aggregata</i>
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Mammalian Fauna of two sub-alpine habitats
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Changes in herbivore levels across a hybrid zone between <i>Ipomopsis aggregata</i> and <i>I. tenuituba</i>
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Effect of altitude on <i>Frasera speciosa</i> populations
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Herbivory in response to experimentally-induced in situ plant stress: sun versus shade species
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Density effects in the plant-animal interactions of <i>Potentilla gracilis douglas</i> (Roseaceae)
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Early snowmelt reduces aphid abundance <i>Aphis asclepiadis</i> by creating water stressed host plants <i>Ligusticum porteri</i> and altering interactions with ants
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Advanced phenology of intraguild predators shifts herbivore host plant preference and performance
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Elevated temperatures alter an ant aphid mutualism
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Chemotypic variation in oshá (<i>Ligusticum porteri</i>) in Colorado, USA
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Multitrophic interactions mediate the effects of climate change on herbivore abundance
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Sex-specific responses to climate change in plants alter population sex ratios and performance.
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Effects of Light Environment on Recovery from Harvest and Antibacterial Properties of Oshá Ligusticum porteri (Apiaceae)
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Plant sex and induced responses independently influence herbivore performance, natural enemies and aphid-tending ants
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Evolutionary biology: Insects converge on resistance
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Datasets (17)
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Data for Context-dependent biotic interactions control plant abundance across altitudinal environmental gradients, 2014, 2016, Colorado, USA
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Plant height and species information
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Data for 'Weak latitudinal gradients in insect herbivory for dominant rangeland grasses of North America'
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Data for Context-dependent biotic interactions control plant abundance across altitudinal environmental gradients, 2014, 2016, Colorado, USA.
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Mammalian herbivores restrict the altitudinal range limits of three alpine grass species
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Mammalian herbivores restrict the altitudinal range limits of three alpine grass species (transplant and herbivore exclusion experiment and demographic data from natural populations), West Elk Mountains, Colorado, USA 2015-2018
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Mammalian herbivores restrict the altitudinal range limits of three alpine grass species, West Elk Mountains, Colorado, USA 2015-2018
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Data from: Linking microenvironment modification to species interactions and demography in an alpine plant community
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Operational sex ratio analyses (R script)
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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
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Low predictability of energy balance traits and leaf temperature metrics in desert, montane, and alpine plant communities
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Data from: Interaction rewiring and the rapid turnover of plant-pollinator networks
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Decomposing an elevational gradient in predation by insectivorous birds
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Data from: Aboveground resilience to species loss but belowground resistance to nitrogen addition in a montane plant community
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Data from: Elevational cline in herbivore abundance driven by a monotonic increase in trophic level sensitivity to aridity
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Data from: Microenvironment and functional-trait context dependence predict alpine plant community dynamics
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Spatial dispersion of Valeriana edulis plants in four populations
Documents (9)
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Beaver Management in Grazed Riparian Ecosystems
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Wildlife Impacts
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Application of Monitoring for Producers
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Proceedings of the Third Intermountain Meadow Symposium
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Beavers and Their Control
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Moist Forests
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Management of Livestock Herbivory in Relationship to Sage-grouse Habitats and Populations
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Effect of Keystone Mine Effluent on Colonization of Stream Benthos
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