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Description
Measurement of plant species-specific cover, identification of focal species, and collection of plant biomass and functional traits including specific leaf area and leaf dry matter content.
Typical Equipment
- measurement tools for biomass
Output Measurements
- plant cover
- plant biomass
- specific leaf area
- leaf dry matter content
Papers Using This Protocol (48)
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Experimental warming decouples plant-fungal symbiont interactions and leads to a more conservative ecosystem
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The impacts of environmental change on plant and microbial communities: A turf transplant experiment in the Colorado Rocky Mountains
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Hydrologic connectivity shapes watershed response to climate variability from local to global scales
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Environmental Variation and Vegetative Composition in Beaver Engineered Ecosystems
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Effect of Nitrogen on Linaria vulgaris and Native Species
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Integrating natural gradients, experiments, and statistical modeling in a distributed network experiment: An example from the WaRM Network
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Forest Fuels and Management Considerations at the Willey Conservation Easement, Colorado
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The Effect of Climate Change on Soil Organic Carbon over an Elevational Gradient
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How does incorporating microclimate data into ecological niche models change our estimates of the climatic niche of vascular plant species?
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Investigating alpine plant community responses to simulated warming and dominant species removal at a low and high elevation in the Colorado Rocky Mountains
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Plant size and allocation to reproduction for plant demography
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Impacts of the invasive species <i> Linaria vulgaris </i> on soil ecology and native plant biodiversity
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Identifying the Impact of Biotic Interactions on Meadow Species Distributions in Sagebrush and Bunchgrass Dominated Systems
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The Direct and Interactive Effects of Warming and Species Interaction on Plant Functional Traits
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Surveying historical patterns in vegetation change (1929-2019) in the upper East River Valley using RMBL's archival herbarium records
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Are ants botanists?: Ant associative learning of plant volatiles
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Consistent shifts in pollinator-relevant floral coloration along a Rocky Mountain elevation gradient
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Plant dominance in a subalpine montane meadow: biotic vs. abiotic controls of subordinate diversity within and across sites
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Effects of Light Availability on Aspen Understory Species
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Aboveground resilience to species loss but belowground resistance to nitrogen addition in a montane plant community
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Intraspecific variation in traits reduces ability of trait-based models to predict community structure
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Habitat patch use, density, and territoriality of American Red Squirrels (<i>Tamiasciurus hudsonicus</i>) in the southwestern Rocky Mountains, Colorado
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Effects of Plant Diversity on Selection for Insect Resistance Traits in <i>Boechera stricta</i>
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The Effects of Ants on Ecosystem Dynamics: Investigating the Ecological Influence of Ant Nests in the Rocky Mountains
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Nest Success of Gunnison Sage-Grouse in Colorado, USA
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Plant Successional Changes Over 67 Years on the Gothic Earthflow.
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Aspen (<i>Populus tremuloides</i>) stand dynamics and understory plant community changes over 46 years near Crested Butte, Colorado, USA
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Responses of high-altitude graminoids and fungal fungi to 20 years of experimental warming
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Pocket gopher activity across elevation gradients.
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The effect of plant trait variation on plant production
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Global assessment of experimental Climate warming on tundra vegetation: heterogeneity over space and time
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Does nutrient enrichment interact with <i>Castilleja miniata</i> to alter plant communities in montane meadows?
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The effects of hemiparasitism by <i> Castilleja</i> spp on community structure in alpine ecosystems
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Intraspecific variation of specific leaf area along an elevational gradient
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Impact of mound-building ants on ecosystem properties create islands of fertility in alpine meadows
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Ant presences alter plants: The impact <i>Formica obscuripes</i> presence on plants and soil micro-anthropod diversity
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Intraspecific trait variation affects community distributions of alpine meadow plant communities
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Testing the predictions of the Maximum Information Entropy Theory for abundance and energy distributions on the Gothic earthflow
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Beyond biomass: measuring the effects of community-level nitrogen enrichment on floral traits, pollinator visitation and plant reproduction
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Environmental forces drive morphological variation in an alpine annual plant
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Plant community composition with respect to species richness along an altitudinal gradient in gunnison county, co
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Determining Long-Term Success of Revegetation Efforts in Disturbed Sites
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A test of species-area theory on a high disturbance area of the Gothic earthflow
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On the spatial distribution and abundance of herbaceous plants in aspen and conifer forest understories: a test of neutral/statistical versus niche-based theories?
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Revegetation after disturbance in high-altitude meadow ecosystems
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Estimating species richness at large spatial scales using data from discrete plots
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Biotic and abiotic effects on ant community structure
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