Organisms often experience trade-offs between behaviors necessary for food acquisition and predator avoidance. In mesocosms and microcosms, we manipulated the risk and resource environments of grazing mayflies (Baetis bicaudatus) common in streams near the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory (RMBL)

Understanding connectivity between the soil and deeper bedrock groundwater is needed to accurately predict a watershed’s response to perturbation, such as drought. Yet, the bedrock groundwater dynamics in mountainous environments are typically under-constrained and excluded from watershed hydrologic

The phenology of vegetation, namely leaf-out and senescence, can influence the Earth’s climate over regional spatial scales and long time periods (e.g., over 30 years or more), in addition to microclimates over local spatial scales and shorter time periods (weeks to months). However, the effects of

Open top chambers (OTCs) are a popular method for studying the biological effects of climate change through passive heating, but their effects on biotic interactions are poorly understood, especially for pollination. Here we use the subalpine plants Delphinium nuttallianum and Potentilla pulcherrima

In the early 1890s, Logan County, Colorado farmer John Frost was digging a lateral line from an irrigation ditch to his field when he encountered probable human bones. Associated with these skeletal remains were three large Clovis chipped stone preforms or projectile points, and at minimum five hema

Abstract Global change drivers, such as nitrogen (N) deposition and non‐random species extinctions, may shift interactions among aboveground and belowground communities. However, tightly coupled interactions between aboveground and belowground organisms may buffer ecosystems to global change. Here,

Gunnison sage-grouse (Centrocercus minimus) distribution in North America has decreased over historical accounts and has received federal protection under the Endangered Species Act. We investigated captive-breeding of a captive-flock of Gunnison sage-grouse created from individuals reared in captiv

Journal Article Possible Impairment of Nest-Building of Hummingbirds by Acetate Leg Tags Get access Nickolas M. Waser, Nickolas M. Waser Department of Biological Sciences The University of Arizona Tucson, Arizona 85721 Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory Crested Butte, Colorado 81224 Search for oth

Karlstrom et al. (2013) raise two issues in their Comment related to aspects of the discussion in our paper (Pederson et al., 2013) about the Lee’s Ferry record and incision in the Colorado Plateau. We synthesize evidence for the bull’s-eye pattern of incision over the past 105 yr, finding that it d

The kinetics of both swelling and shrinking of erythrocytes of the yellow-bellied marmot, golden-mantled ground squirrel, chipmunk, deer mouse, long-tailed vole, montane vole and western jumping mouse indicate that glycerol, ethylene glycol, urea and thiourea penetrate by means of facilitated diffus

important in situ technique, a conclusive analysis of in situ data to determine the References density dependence of emigration and CORKUM, L. D. 1978.The influence of density and immigration of benthic stream inverte-behavioural type on the active entry of two mayfly species (Ephemeroptera) into th

The addition of nectar to pollen-rewarding plants resulted in modest increases in per-flower pollinator visit duration and pollen transfer, but had no effect on reproduction because, at the place and time the experiment was conducted, plants were not pollen-limited. These results suggest that a poll

Protecting populations contending with co-occurring stressors requires a better understanding of how multiple early-life stressors affect the fitness of natural systems. However, the complexity of such research has limited its advancement and prevented us from answering new questions. In human studi

Using the same methods as Britten, my associates and I ran Pollard transects during four flight seasons at Redcloud Peak and during three flight seasons (1991-93) at Mt. Uncompahgre and found that the populations are declining precipitously, genetic analyses show low heterozygosity, and no heroic ef

Gel electrophoresis was used to obtain an estimate of the genetic similarity among populations of Euphydryas anicia, Euphydryas chalcedona, and Euphydryas colon in an effort to determine whether they should be considered separate species or arbitrary groupings of populations in a single polytypic sp