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Belt transect method

Subcategory: botanical survey
Standard reference: Miller et al. (2007)
Papers: 48 | Mentions: 57

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Description

Belt transect method for censusing lupine populations and collecting inflorescences for morphological analysis across sympatric and allopatric sites. Combines population surveying with systematic floral trait measurement.

Typical Equipment

  • GPS
  • tape for marking
  • measuring tools for morphological measurements

Output Measurements

  • population census data
  • inflorescence density
  • floral volume
  • banner-to-wing gap angle
  • flower width
  • claw-to-wing length
  • banner-to-wing height

Papers Using This Protocol (49)

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The Impact of Delphinium nuttallianum and Ipomopsis aggregata Phenology on Broad-tailed Hummingbird (Selasphorus platycercus) Visitation Patterns

2024using
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Comparing floral morphology and inflorescence structure of Lupins argenteus and L. bakeri in sympatry and allopatry

2024introducing
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The Impact of Delphinium nuttallianum and Ipomopsis aggregata Phenology on Broad tailed Hummingbird (Selasphorus platycercus) Visitation Patterns

2024using
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Plant-Pollinator Interactions between Erigeron speciosus and Heterotheca villosa in Virginia Basin

2024using
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Community context mediates effects of pollinator loss on seed production

2023Ecosphereusing
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Differences in individual flowering time change pollen limitation and seed set in three montane wildflowers

2023American Journal of Botanyusing
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Effects of Microclimate Variation on Diversity of Plants and Pollinators

2023using
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How season length and diet breadth limit mason bee success across an elevational gradient

2023using
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Removing flowers of a generalist plant changes pollinator visitation, composition, and interaction network structure

2022Ecosphereusing
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Effects of Floral Abundance, Pollinator Interactions, and Floral Morphology on Stigmatic Pollen Deposition

2022using
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Predispersal Seed Predation Obscures the Detrimental Effect of Dust on Wildflower Reproduction

2021International Journal of Plant Sciencesusing
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Comparing pollen distribution on pollinators to floral community composition in the East River Valley

2021using
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Pollination Preferences of <i> Geranium richardsonii </i> Between Bee and Fly Species at High and Low Elevations

2021using
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The effects of drought on subalpine floral community diversity

2021using
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Effects of Climate Variation and Nesting Traits on Sex Ratios of Adult Solitary Bees

2021using
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The Effect of Climate Change on Two Primitively Eusocial Bees

2021using
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Pollinator visitation rate and effectiveness vary with flowering phenology

2020American Journal of Botanyusing
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Changing Climate Drives Divergent and Nonlinear Shifts in Flowering Phenology across Elevations

2020Current Biologyusing
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Birds Perceive More Intraspecific Color Variation in Bird-Pollinated Than Bee-Pollinated Flowers

2020Frontiers in Plant Science. doi 10.3389/fpls.2020.590347using
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Quantifying Nectar Trait Responses to Natural Variation in Water Availability in Subalpine Plant Communities

2020using
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What are the bees' needs? Analyzing the diet breadth for three Rocky Mountain Bumble Bees

2020using
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The effect of nutrient availability on floral display and pollinator interactions

2019introducing
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Low to Mid Elevational Resurvey of Bumble bee Distributions in Response to Climate Change

2019using
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Quantifying Nectar Resources in Bumble Bee Visited Plants

2019using
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Heritable plant phenotypes track light and herbivory levels at fine spatial scales

2018Oecologiausing
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Characterizing nectar content in wet and dry subalpine meadows during an extreme summer drought

2018using
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The effect of surrounding bloom color on pan trap success in sampling Rocky Mountain bees

2018introducing
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Effects of Climate Changes on Ecologically Important Bees and Flowers

2017using
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Does Bumble Bee Diet Breadth vary with the Floral Abundance in a Meadow?

2015using
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Quantifying within-season floral trait distributions of flowers in Colorado Rocky Mountain sub-alpine dry meadows.

2015introducing
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Exploring within season temporal variation in plant-pollinator interactions in sub-alpine meadows using weekly pollination interaction networks

2013using
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Spatial variation in bee abundance and diversity across southern Rocky Mountain habitats

2013using
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"With a little help from my friends": Phylogenetic distance as a predictor of floral visitation in the plant communities of Gothic, CO.

2012introducing
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There's no place like home: Investigating the ideal nesting requirements of Megachilidae bees in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado

2012using
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Assessing the impacts of long-term pan trapping on native bee populations in sub-alpine ecosystems

2012using
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Effects of floral diversity and density on fly (<i>Diptera:Bombyliidae and Syrphidae</i>) floral foraging fidelity in subalpine meadows

2012using
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Bee sampling has no effect on bee abundance in montane meadows

2010using
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Effects of flowering plant density on pollinator visitation, pollen receipt, and seed production in <i>Delphinium barbeyi</i>

2009American Journal of Botanyusing
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The relationships among butterfly size, visitation rate, handling time, and floral display size

2009using
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Variation in the structure and dynamics of bee assemblages across distinct montane meadows

2009using
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Climate Change is Causing A Decline in Bombus occidentalis by Reducing its Floral Resources

2008using
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THE EFFECTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON THE TIMING AND ABUNDANCE OF DIPTERA IN A SUBALPINE MEADOW

2008using
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Effect of Soil Metals on Pollination of Subalpine Wildflowers

2008using
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Changing distributions, changing climate: Using <i>Bombus</i> as an indicator of global warming near Crested Butte, Colorado

2007using
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Ecosystems impacts of climate change: snowmelt timing, species diversity, and plant productivity

2004using
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Changes in flowering and abundance of <i>Delphinium nuttallianum</i> (Ranunculaceae) in response to a subalpine climate warming experiment

2003Global Change Biologyusing
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Plant responses to experimental warming in a montane meadow

2001Ecologyusing
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The effect of hermaphrodite density and frequency at three spatial scales on the polen receipt and seed set of gynodioecious Geranium richardsonii (Geraniaceae)

2001introducing
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The effect of hermaphrodite density and frequency at three spatial scales on the polen receipt and seed set of gynodioecious Geranium richardsonii (Geraniaceae)

2001using