Astragalus microcymbus, the skiff milkvetch, is a perennial forb endemic to Gunnison and Saguache counties in Colorado, United States. In 1995 Denver Botanic Gardens scientists began monitoring individual A. microcymbus plants to track longevity and reproductive rates, ultimately recording plant len

Individual plants can modify the microenvironment within their spatial neighborhood. However, the consequences of microenvironment modification for demography and species interactions remain unclear at the community scale. In a study of co-occurring alpine plants, we (1) determined the extent of spe

Though rarely experimentally tested, biotic interactions have long been hypothesized 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 center (core) of

These R scripts contain the code to replicate the analyses performed in Demographic consequences of changing environmental periodicity , Ecology. Vital-rate estimation We used the demographic data of each species to model periodic differences in vital rates for each life-cycle stage using generalize

Description: Annual demography dataset for an alpine plant community in Colorado. This file updates previous years of data for this project posted to https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.33410. This version is provisional and will be updated shortly with additional years of data and

Understanding the influence of environmental variability on population dynamics is a fundamental goal of ecology. Theory suggests that, for populations in variable environments, temporal correlations between demographic vital rates (e.g., growth, survival, reproduction) can increase (if positive) or

In an outdoor garden at Irwin, Colorado, we established glacier lily plants in open-bottomed PVC pots that protected them from gopher attack. The initial cohorts were excavated from field sites as mature corms of unknown age. Later cohorts were grown from seed, so their ages are known. Each spring s

These data continue and expand upon data collected by Kenneth B. Armitage titled, " Social Behavior and Population Dynamics of Yellow-bellied Marmots", that goes from 1965 - 2001. A record includes the subject's age, sex, body mass, locality, and reproductive status. Starting in 2002, additional col

Data on first day of bare ground (snowmelt date, shown as day of year; 1 Jan = 1) from a long-term snow monitoring plot monitored by billy barr, near the mid-elevation study population described in the paper (The Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory). snowmeltT1 refers to the date of melt in year t+

Kriged maps of microenvironment variables in global coordinates (Arc Grid format).

Kriged maps of microenvironment variables in global coordinates (Arc Grid format).

Functional trait values (means and standard deviations) for species occurring in the plots (CSV format with text metadata).

Complete plant census data in all plots for years 2014-2017, transformed into format suitable for spatial analyses (CSV format with text metadata).

Complete census data in all plots for years 2014-2017, transformed into format suitable for demographic regression (CSV format with text metadata).