The Adams County, Colorado, H5 chondrite contains a lithic fragment, 1 cm in size, that is texturally and mineralogically quite different from the chondritic host. It is composed of: a groundmass of fine‐grained euhedral to subhedral olivine (3–15 μm) and interstitial glass enclosing larger olivine

Research Article| March 01, 1957 APPRAISAL OF RIDGWAY AND GUNNISON "TILLITES," SOUTHWESTERN COLORADO FRANKLYN B VAN HOUTEN FRANKLYN B VAN HOUTEN PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, PRINCETON, N. J. Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar Author and Article Information FRANKLYN B VAN HOUTEN PR

Whether an animal lives alone or in a group may have fitness consequences. Among yellow-bellied marmots (Marmota flaviventris), fitness is thought to be lower for noncolonial than for colonial females because juvenile survival, as indicated by trapping, is lower. Trapping, however, may not be an acc

Burrowing mammals can be ecosystem engineers by increasing soil aeration and erosion and altering the structure of plant communities. Studies that characterize the constraints on the distributions of fossorial mammal disturbances to soil can help predict changes in ecosystem engineering under future

Abstract Although rarely experimentally tested, biotic interactions have long been hypothesised to limit low‐elevation range boundaries of species. We tested the effects of herbivory on three alpine‐restricted plant species by transplanting plants below (novel), at the edge (limit), or in the centre

The effects of an accidentally introduced beetle Brachypterolus pulicarius on the growth and reproduction of its host, the invasive plant Linaria vulgaris, growing under field conditions across multiple years and sites in western Colorado, USA are studied.

Abstract Terrestrial production and export of dissolved organic and inorganic carbon (DOC and DIC) to streams depends on water flow and biogeochemical processes in and beneath soils. Yet, understanding of these processes in a rapidly changing climate is limited. Using the watershed‐scale reactive‐tr

Structural geology in the Crested Butte Quadrangle is more complex than previously reported. Outcrop relationships previously explained as unconformities are the result of large faults at Hunter's Hill and in Slate River valley. The following lithologic assemblages are recognized in the Absarokan ro

The red foxes (Vulpes vulpes) indigenous to the mountains of the western United States are high-elevation specialists that could face range reduction due to climatic warming, as well as potential encroachment, loss of adaptive alleles, and displacement by introduced nonnative red foxes. We investiga

AbstractPatterns of infection and prevalence result from complex interactions between hosts and parasites, the effects of which are likely to vary by species. We investigated the effects of age, sex and season on the likelihood of individual infection, and the effects of host population size, sex ra

Most flowering plants are hermaphrodites. However, in gynodioecious species, some members of the population are male‐sterile and reproduce only by setting seed, while others gain fitness through both male and female function. How females compensate for the loss of male function remains unresolved fo

Shigeru Albert AE, Comparative Studies of Developmental Rates, Hibernation, and Food Plants in North American Colias (Lepidoptera, Pieridae), The American Midland Naturalist, Vol. 60, No. 1 (Jul., 1958), pp. 84-96

Little information is available on the use of areas enrolled in the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) by Gunnison sage-grouse (Centrocercus minimus) or the impacts of grazing on their habitat selection and movement patterns. Using radiotelemetry, we monitored 13 Gunnison sage-grouse in San Juan Cou

It is found that plant traits had little effect on damage and pollination, but damage andpollination affected plant traits in both the treatment year and the subsequent year, and evidence of indirect effects between leaf herbivores and pollinators in both directions has not been previously demonstra

Abstract Rapid environmental change can decouple previously reliable cues from important resources, causing specialized recognition systems to result in maladaptive behaviors. For native herbivorous insects, such evolutionary traps are often imposed by attractive invasive plants that prove harmful t