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Ligusticum porteri

Common names: lovage, host plant, bear root
Taxonomy: Plantae > Tracheophyta > Magnoliopsida > Apiales > Apiaceae
Roles: habitat component, study subject
ITIS TSN: 29532
External: RMBL Collections · iNaturalist · iDigBio · GenBank
Papers: 318 | Mentions: 350

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Publications (318)

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Wind-driven seed dispersal differentially promotes seed trapping and retention across alpine plants

2026American Journal of BotanyRole: text_match
student_paper

Alpine plant spatial clumping modifies leaf surface temperature

2025Role: text_match
student_paper

Alpine plants of Mt. Baldy: modeling phenology and documenting biodiversity

2025Role: text_match
student_paper

Biotic and abiotic drivers of pathogen prevalence in a rust fungus with multiple plant hosts

2025Role: text_match
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Does pollination interact with the abiotic environment to affect plant reproduction?

2025Annals of BotanyRole: text_match
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Does pollination interact with the abiotic environment to affect plant reproduction?

2025Annals of BotanyRole: text_match
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Effects of experimental warming on floral scent, display and rewards in two subalpine herbs

2025Annals of BotanyRole: text_match
article

Females know best: dispersal polymorphism maintained by sex-specific foraging

2025Behavioral Ecology and SociobiologyRole: text_match
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Fitness costs and benefits of a non-native floral resource for subalpine solitary bees

2025OikosRole: text_match
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Flying by night: Comparing nocturnal pollinator networks over time in the Colorado Rocky Mountains

2025Ecological EntomologyRole: text_match
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Host species and geographic location shape microbial diversity and functional potential in the conifer needle microbiome

2025MicrobiomeRole: text_match
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Nutrient niche dynamics among wild pollinators

2025Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological SciencesRole: text_match
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Quantifying the effect of petrogenic carbon on SOC turnover for two Rocky Mountain soils: when are petrogenic carbon corrections required?

2025Journal of Geophysical Research: BiogeosciencesRole: text_match
student_paper

Sensory cues and memory in Lepidopteran mud puddling behavior

2025Role: text_match
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Shorter seasonal snow cover poses a risk to solitary bee populations in a mountainous ecosystem

2025Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological SciencesRole: text_match
student_paper

Temperature and relative humidity effects on nectar quantity, nectar quality, and plant-pollinator interactions

2025Role: text_match
article

Up high, hot and dry: Individual reproductive output in subalpine bees declines with increasing drought severity

2025Global Change BiologyRole: text_match
student_paper

Vegetation structure effect on bird foraging behavior across the summer season in montane wet-meadows

2025Role: text_match
article

Warming disrupts plant–fungal endophyte symbiosis more severely in leaves than roots

2025Global Change BiologyRole: text_match
student_paper

Associations Between Deer Browse and Aphid Colonization in a Long-Term Monitoring Study of Liguisticum porteri

2024Role: text_match
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Changes in insect population dynamics due to climate change

2024Effects of Climate Change on Insects: Physiological, Evolutionary, and Ecological ResponsesRole: text_match
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Decomposing an elevational gradient in predation by insectivorous birds

2024EcosphereRole: text_match
student_paper

Fit or Unlit: using quantum dots to investigate the effects of a floricolous yeast and nectar robbing on male fitness in Ipomopsis aggregata

2024Role: text_match
student_paper

Getting to the Root of It: Effects of Castilleja Root Hemiparasitism on Plant Community Structure and Function

2024Role: text_match
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Impacts of assisted migration: An introduced herbivore has short-term and long-term effects on its native host plant population

2024Entomologia Experimentalis et ApplicataRole: text_match
student_paper

Indirect effect of black bears on sunflowers in nitrogen-polluted and pristine steppe

2024Role: text_match
article

Intraspecific body size variation across distributional moments reveals trait filtering processes

2024Journal of Animal EcologyRole: text_match
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Patterns of genetic variation and local adaptation of a native herbivore to a lethal invasive plant

2024Molecular EcologyRole: text_match
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Pollen chemical and mechanical defences restrict host-plant use by bees

2024Proceedings of the Royal Society BRole: text_match
student_paper

Solitary bee genera differ in foraging activity timing and temperature; Evidence of a seasonal dietary shift in Hoplitis fulgida

2024Role: text_match
student_paper

Variation of wasp behavior patterns and pollination behavior on Ligusticum porteri

2024Role: text_match
student_paper

What are parasitoid wasps visiting Helianthella quinquenervis targeting, and could they influence plant fitness and reproduction?

2024Role: text_match
article

A pathogen's spatial range is not constrained by geographical features in the flax rust pathosystem

2023Ecology and EvolutionRole: text_match
student_paper

Breakfast of champions: Spatiotemporal variation in the quality of ant nests for bear consumers

2023Role: text_match
thesis

Effects of microclimate, dispersal, species interactions, and environmental stochasticity on demography

2023Role: text_match
article

Evidence for a single, ancient origin of a genus-wide alternative life history strategy

2023Science AdvancesRole: text_match
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Extensive regional variation in the phenology of insects and their response to temperature across North America

2023EcologyRole: text_match
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Genetic mechanisms underlying maladaptation in specialized species interactions

2023Role: text_match
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Host plant phenology shapes aphid abundance and interactions with ants

2023OikosRole: text_match
student_paper

Host specificity of hemiparasitic Castilleja and its influence on plant community diversity.

2023Role: text_match
student_paper

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

2023Role: text_match
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Long-term declines in insect abundance and biomass in a subalpine habitat

2023EcosphereRole: text_match
article

Scientists’ warning on climate change and insects

2023Ecological MonographsRole: text_match
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Silviculture

2023Role: text_match
thesis

The causes and consequences of pollen defence

2023Role: text_match
student_paper

Abundance and Identification of Hymenopteran Parasitoids in Euphydryas gilletti

2022Role: text_match
article

An analytical pipeline to support robust research on the ecology, evolution, and function of floral volatiles

2022Frontiers in Ecology and EvolutionRole: text_match
student_paper

Ant Behavioral Responses to Aphids Colonizing <i> Ligusticum porteri </i>

2022Role: text_match
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Carry-over effects of larval food stress on adult energetics and life history in a nectar-feeding butterfly

2022Ecological EntomologyRole: text_match
article

Comparative impacts of long-term trends in snowmelt and species interactions on plant population dynamics

2022Journal of EcologyRole: text_match
article

Effects of an introduced mustard, Thlaspi arvense, on soil fungal communities in subalpine meadows

2022Fungal EcologyRole: text_match
student_paper

Environmental and Genetic Effects of Elevation on Plant Defense

2022Role: text_match
article

Evolution and genomic basis of the plant penetrating ovipositor: a key morphological trait in herbivorous Drosophilidae

2022Proceedings of the Royal Society BRole: text_match
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Habitat selection in a fluctuating ground squirrel population: Density - dependence and fitness consequences

2022Ecology and EvolutionRole: text_match
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Intraspecific Variation in Responses of a Montane Grass, <i> Festuca thurberi </i>, to Simulated Biological Invasion

2022Frontiers in Forests and Global ChangeRole: text_match
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Legume germination is delayed in dry soils and in sterile soils devoid of microbial mutualists: Species-specific implications for upward range expansions

2022Ecology and EvolutionRole: text_match
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Life-history traits predict responses of wild bees to climate variation

2022Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological SciencesRole: text_match
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Novel host unmasks heritable variation in plant preference within an insect population

2022EvolutionRole: text_match
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Soil feedbacks and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi of <i> Linaria vulgaris </i> invasion

2022Role: text_match
article

The Evolution and Ecology of Interactions Between Ants and Honeydew-Producing Hemipteran Insects

2022The Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and SystematicsRole: text_match
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The shifting importance of abiotic and biotic factors across the life cycles of wild pollinators

2022Journal of Animal EcologyRole: text_match
thesis

Tritrophic mutualisms in a changing climate

2022Role: text_match
article

Winters are changing: snow effects on Arctic and alpine tundra ecosystems

2022Arctic ScienceRole: text_match
article

Chronic, low-level nitrogen deposition enhances abundances of ant-protected herbivores inhabiting an imperiled foundation species

2021Acta OecologicaRole: text_match
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Demographic Consequences of Phenological Shifts in Response to Climate Change

2021Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and SystematicsRole: text_match
article

Do microorganisms obey macroecological rules?

2021AuthoreaRole: text_match
student_paper

Effects of soil moisture and temperature on plant palatability and herbivore plant preference

2021Role: text_match
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From Insects to Frogs, Egg–Juvenile Recruitment Can Have Persistent Effects on Population Sizes

2021Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and SystematicsRole: text_match
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From the ground up: Building predictions for how climate change will affect belowground mutualisms, floral traits, and bee behavior

2021Climate Change EcologyRole: text_match
student_paper

Impacts of brood parasites, floral abundance, and bee age on maternal investment in a solitary bee, <i> Osmia iridis </i>

2021Role: text_match
student_paper

Larval Feeding Ability on a Drought-Stressed Invasive Plant

2021Role: text_match
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Plant–pollinator interaction niche broadens in response to severe drought perturbations

2021OecologiaRole: text_match
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The benefits of being dominant: Health correlates of male social rank and age in a marmot

2021Current ZoologyRole: text_match
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The genome of the Margined White butterfly (Pieris macdunnoughii): sex chromosome insights and the power of polishing with PoolSeq data

2021Genome Biology and EvolutionRole: text_match
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Understanding pollen specialization in mason bees: a case study of six species

2021OecologiaRole: text_match
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Advanced phenology of intraguild predators shifts herbivore host plant preference and performance

2020Ecological EntomologyRole: text_match
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Are ants botanists? Ant associative learning of plant chemicals mediates foraging for carbohydrates

2020Ecological EntomologyRole: text_match
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Behavioral and spatial dynamics in a fluctuating population of golden-mantled ground squirrels (<i>Callospermophilus lateralis</i>)

2020Role: text_match
article

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

2020Frontiers in Plant Science. doi 10.3389/fpls.2020.590347Role: text_match
student_paper

Climate Change and Parasitism: An Investigation into Parasitic Bees' Climate Responses as Compared to their Hosts

2020Role: text_match
student_paper

Color preference of Speyeria mormonia

2020Role: text_match
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Early snowmelt reduces aphid abundance <i>Aphis asclepiadis</i> by creating water stressed host plants <i>Ligusticum porteri</i> and altering interactions with ants

2020Arthropod-Plant InteractionsRole: text_match
student_paper

Effects of frost and neighborhood on Tephritid fly herbivory of <i>Erigeron speciosus</i>

2020Role: text_match
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Experience may outweigh cue similarity in maintaining a persistent host plant-based evolutionary trap.

2020Ecological Monographs. doi 10.1002/ecm.1412Role: text_match
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Insect herbivory reshapes a native leaf microbiome

2020Nature Ecology & EvolutionRole: text_match
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Older mothers produce more successful daughters.

2020Proceedings of the National Academy of the United StatesRole: text_match
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Soil Respiration Response to Rainfall Modulated by Plant Phenology in a Montane Meadow, East River, Colorado, USA

2020Journal of Geophysical Research: BiogeosciencesRole: text_match
student_paper

The impact of elevational gradients on dark septate endophytes (DSE) and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) in mountains

2020Role: text_match
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Towards a U.S. national program for monitoring native bees

2020Biological Conservation doi 10.1016/j.biocon.2020.108821Role: text_match
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Advanced phenology of higher trophic levels shifts aphid host plant preferences and performance

2019Role: habitat component
article

Altitudinal gradients fail to predict fungal symbiont responses to warming

2019EcologyRole: text_match
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Comparing predictive measures and model functions for estimating plant biomass: lessons from a sagebrush–rabbitbrush community

2019Plant EcologyRole: text_match
student_paper

Does <i>Aphis asclepiadis</i> colony size mediate <i>Formica rufa</i> and <i>Tapinoma sessile</i> competition for mutualist aphids

2019Role: text_match
student_paper

Effects of weather and floral density on foraging activity of cavity nesting bees (<i> Osmia </i>spp.)

2019Role: text_match
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Elevated temperatures alter an ant aphid mutualism

2019Entomologia Experimentalis et ApplicataRole: text_match
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Elevational cline in herbivore abundance driven by a monotonic increase in trophic level sensitivity to aridity

2019Journal of Animal EcologyRole: text_match
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Floral reward strategies, visitor behavior, and plant reproductive outcomes

2019Role: text_match
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Fungal colonization of plant roots is resistant to nitrogen addition and resilient to dominant species losses

2019EcosphereRole: text_match
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How vulnerable are pollen-specialist solitary bees to temperature-mediated shifts in the timing of food availability?

2019Role: text_match
student_paper

Identifying the Impact of Biotic Interactions on Meadow Species Distributions in Sagebrush and Bunchgrass Dominated Systems

2019Role: text_match
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King of the hill? How biotic interactions affect biogeographical pattern and species responses to climate change

2019Role: text_match
student_paper

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

2019Role: text_match
student_paper

Niche breadth changes in response to environmental perturbation: the impact of early snowmelt on subalpine plant-pollinator specialization

2019Role: text_match
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No evidence that gut microbiota impose a net cost on their butterfly host

2019Molecular EcologyRole: text_match
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Parasitism modifies the direct effects of warming on a hemiparasite and its host

2019PLOS ONERole: text_match
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Phenology as a process rather than an event: from individual reaction norms to community metrics

2019Ecological Monographs doi 10.1002/ecm.1352Role: text_match
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Plant Identity Influences Foliar Fungal Symbionts More Than Elevation in the Colorado Rocky Mountains

2019Microbial EcologyRole: text_match
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Plant chemical mediation of ant behavior

2019Current Opinion in Insect ScienceRole: text_match
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Pollen and vegetative secondary chemistry of three pollen-rewarding lupines

2019American Journal of BotanyRole: text_match
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Pre- and post-ingestive defenses affect larval feeding on a lethal invasive host plant

2019Entomologia Experimentalis et ApplicataRole: text_match
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Progressive sensitivity of trophic levels to warming underlies an elevational gradient in ant–aphid mutualism strength

2019OikosRole: text_match
thesis

Snowmelt affects aphid (<i>Aphis asclepladis</i>) populations through soil moisture and host plant phenology

2019Role: habitat component
student_paper

Surveying historical patterns in vegetation change (1929-2019) in the upper East River Valley using RMBL's archival herbarium records

2019Role: text_match
student_paper

The Effect of Predation on Ant-aphid Mutualism in <i>Ligusticum porteri</i>

2019Role: text_match
student_paper

The effect of 10 years of repeat lethal sampling on wild bee abundance

2019Role: text_match
thesis

The effects of climate change and biodiversity loss on mutualisms

2019Role: habitat component
thesis

The persistent maladaptation of <i>Pieris macdunnoughii</i>: Constraints on adaptation to an evolutionary trap

2019Role: text_match
student_paper

Volatile organic compounds as signals for pollinators and their consistency across years

2019Role: text_match
student_paper

Are ants botanists?: Ant associative learning of plant volatiles

2018Role: text_match
thesis

Changes of dispersal ability in an isolated population

2018Role: text_match
article

Chemotypic variation in oshá (<i>Ligusticum porteri</i>) in Colorado, USA

2018J Appl. Res. Med. Aromat. PlantsRole: text_match
student_paper

Effects of Light Availability on Aspen Understory Species

2018Role: text_match
thesis

Examining the impact of pollen diet composition on bee development and lifespan

2018Role: text_match
article

Habitat preference of an herbivore shapes the habitat distribution of its host plant

2018Ecosphere 9Role: text_match
article

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

2018OecologiaRole: text_match
student_paper

Mix and Match: Transplanting symbiotic fungal partners across elevational gradients to gauge responses in migrating Elymus hosts

2018Role: text_match
article

Short-term, low-level nitrogen deposition dampens a trophic cascade between bears and plants

2018Ecology and EvolutionRole: text_match
other

40 years of progress in pollination biology, and what it means for citizen scientists

2017Aquilegia: Newsletter of the Colorado Native Plant SocietyRole: text_match
thesis

Biotic and abiotic drivers of plant symbionts determine plant performance, the maintenance of diversity, and response to global change

2017Role: text_match
student_paper

Conflict of interest? Investigating the costs and benefits of herbivore defense using the model plant <i>Boechera stricta</i>

2017Role: text_match
article

Direct benefits and indirect costs of warm temperatures for high-elevation populations of a solitary bee

2017EcologyRole: text_match
student_paper

Effects of Microclimate on the regeneration of Quaking Aspens, <i>Populus tremuloides</i>

2017Role: text_match
article

Effects of road dust on the pollination and reproduction of wildflowers

2017International Journal of Plant SciencesRole: text_match
article

Facilitated exploitation of pollination mutualisms: fitness consequences for plants

2017Journal of EcologyRole: text_match
article

Foraging strategy predicts foraging economy in a facultative secondary nectar robber

2017OikosRole: text_match
student_paper

Genetic basis of plant-insect interactions: insect recruitment to <i>Boechera stricta</i>

2017Role: text_match
article

Identifying targets and agents of selection: Innovative methods to evaluate the processes that contribute to local adaptation

2017Method in Ecology and EvolutionRole: text_match
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Interactions between bee foraging and floral resource phenology shape bee populations and communities

2017Current Opinion in Insect ScienceRole: text_match
article

Interannual bumble bee abundance is driven by indirect climate effects on floral resource phenology

2017Ecology LettersRole: text_match
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Intraspecific variation in traits reduces ability of trait-based models to predict community structure

2017Journal of Vegetation ScienceRole: text_match
article

Multitrophic interactions mediate the effects of climate change on herbivore abundance

2017OecologiaRole: text_match
student_paper

Neighborhood Influence on Plant Interactions with Seed-Eating Flies and Pollinating Bees

2017Role: text_match
article

Phenological shifts of native and invasive species under climate change: insights from the <i>Boechera Lythrum</i> model

2017Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological SciencesRole: text_match
student_paper

Selection for early reproduction in the solitary bee <i>Hoplitis fulgida</i>

2017Role: text_match
student_paper

The Role of <i>Castilleja spp.</i> In Plant and Mycorrhizae Communities Within Various Climates

2017Role: text_match
student_paper

The ability of ants to associatively learn based on olfactory chemical cues produced by plants.

2017Role: text_match
article

Asteraceae pollen provisions protect <i>Osmia</i> mason bees (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae) from brood parasitism

2016American NaturalistRole: text_match
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Aversion and attraction to harmful plant secondary compounds jointly shape the foraging ecology of a specialist herbivore

2016Ecology and EvolutionRole: text_match
article

Delving deeper: Questioning the decline of long-tongued bumble bees, long-tubed flowers and their mutualisms with climate change

2016Journal of Pollination EcologyRole: text_match
student_paper

Effects of phenological stage and temperature on <i>Ligusticum porteri’s</i> volatiles and trophic interactions

2016Role: text_match
article

Historical changes in thermoregulatory traits of alpine butterflies reveal complex ecological and evolutionary responses to recent climate change

2016Climate Change ResponsesRole: text_match
student_paper

Larval feeding behavior and leaf components that affect the survival of <i>Pieris macdunnoughii</i> on the invasive mustard <i>Thlaspi arvense</i>

2016Role: text_match
student_paper

Mutualistic Networks Over Time: The Effects of Changing Floral Abundances on Plant- Pollinator Interactions

2016Role: text_match
article

Phenological change in a spring ephemeral: implications for pollination and plant fitness

2016Global Change BiologyRole: text_match
student_paper

Road Dust, <i>Ipomopsis aggregata</i> Seed Count, and attack by <i>Hylemya</i> Flies—Are they Linked?

2016Role: text_match
thesis

Temporal ecology of a subalpine ecosystem: Plant communities, plant-pollinator interactions, & climate change.

2016Role: text_match
student_paper

The Changing Floral Color Landscape Across an Alpine Elevation Gradient

2016Role: text_match
student_paper

The Effects of Ants on Ecosystem Dynamics: Investigating the Ecological Influence of Ant Nests in the Rocky Mountains

2016Role: text_match
thesis

The Visual Ecology of <i>Speyeria mormonia</i>

2016Role: text_match
student_paper

Use of Low Quality Pollen by Asteraceae-Specialist Osmia Mason Bees (<i>Hymenoptera: Megachilidae</i>)

2016Role: text_match
article

A mutualistic endophyte alters the niche dimensions of its host plant

2015AoB PlantsRole: text_match
thesis

Adaptation to climate and climate change in Rocky Mountain butterflies: Morphology, physiology, and behavior

2015Role: text_match
article

Effects of Light Environment on Recovery from Harvest and Antibacterial Properties of Oshá Ligusticum porteri (Apiaceae)

2015Economic BotanyRole: text_match
article

Effects of increased flight on the energetics and life history of the butterfly <i>Speyeria mormonia</i>

2015PLoS OneRole: text_match
article

Evolution of herbivory in Drosophilidae linked to loss of behaviors, antennal responses, odorant receptors and ancestral diet

2015Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USARole: text_match
article

Fine-Grained Distribution of a Non-Native Resource Can Alter the Population Dynamics of a Native Consumer

2015PloS oneRole: text_match
student_paper

Fungal Phytopathogens Decrease Plant-Insect Interactions.

2015Role: text_match
student_paper

How do distributions of belowground grass-fungal symbioses change over altitudinal gradients in the Colorado Rocky Mountains?

2015Role: text_match
article

Microgeographic patterns of genetic divergence and adaptation across environmental gradients in <i>Boechera stricta</i>(Brassicaceae)

2015The American NaturalistRole: text_match
thesis

The ecology of co-infection in the phyllosphere: unraveling the interactions between microbes, insect herbivores, and the host plants they share.

2015Role: text_match
student_paper

Aboveground and belowground traits of dominant and sub-dominant species along an elevational gradient.

2014Role: text_match
student_paper

An Endophyte alters biological characteristics of the grass, Festuca thurberi.

2014Role: text_match
student_paper

An Epichloe endophyte alters the ecology of Poa leptocoma.

2014Role: text_match
article

Aspen (<i>Populus tremuloides</i>) stand dynamics and understory plant community changes over 46 years near Crested Butte, Colorado, USA

2014Forest Ecology and ManagementRole: text_match
student_paper

Asteraceae pollen specialization affects vulnerability to brood parasitism in mason bees (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae).

2014Role: text_match
article

Coyotes, deer, and wildflowers: diverse evidence points to a trophic cascade

2014NaturwissenschaftenRole: text_match
article

Dynamics and structure of a native Pieris population in the presence of a non-native, toxic larval host plant

2014Journal of the Lepidopterists SocietyRole: text_match
student_paper

Effects of early snowmelt and climate warming on Valeriana edulis and the insects that depend on it.

2014Role: text_match
article

Empirical tests of within‐and across‐species energetics in a diverse plant community

2014EcologyRole: text_match
student_paper

Phenology of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal fungi and Dark Septate Endophytes across an elevation gradient.

2014Role: text_match
student_paper

Plant Successional Changes Over 67 Years on the Gothic Earthflow.

2014Role: text_match
thesis

Rapid evolution and population divergence in response to environmental change in <i>Colias</i> butterlies

2014Role: text_match
article

Responses of high-altitude graminoids and fungal fungi to 20 years of experimental warming

2014EcologyRole: text_match
thesis

Roles of pollinators, seed predators, and vertebrate herbivores in maintaining females in the gynodioecious <i>Polemonium foliosissimum</i>.

2014Role: text_match
article

Selection of trait combinations through bee and fly visitation to flowers of <i>Polemonium foliosissimum</i>

2014Journal of Evolutionary BiologyRole: text_match
article

Strong selection genome-wide enhances fitness tradeoffs across environments and episodes of selection

2014EvolutionRole: text_match
student_paper

The Effects of Elevation on Herbivorous Insect Communities and the Host Plant Boechera stricta.

2014Role: text_match
student_paper

The effects of light intensity on ant-aphid mutualisms on Osha (Ligusticum porteri).

2014Role: text_match
student_paper

Abiotic and multitrophic determinants of geographic distribution in an herbivorous insect

2013Role: text_match
student_paper

Benefits of ant attendance for aphid colonies of varying density

2013Role: text_match
student_paper

Can fungal symbionts shift host niche dimensions to promote species coexistence?

2013Role: text_match
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Chemical camouflage and the consequences of changing host plants in a treehopper-ant mutualism

2013Role: text_match
student_paper

Does ant usage vary between the plants <i>Ligusticum porteri</i> and <i>Helianthella quinquenervis</i>?

2013Role: text_match
student_paper

Does infection by endophytic bacteria influence plant susceptibility to herbivory in nature?

2013Role: text_match
student_paper

Effect of location on plant species richness and diversity in Aspen (<i>Populus tremuloides</i>) understory: edge vs. inner forest habitat

2013Role: text_match
article

Fitness costs of butterfly oviposition on a lethal non-native plant in a mixed native and non-native plant community

2013OecologiaRole: text_match
article

Fungal symbionts alter plant responses to global change

2013American Journal of BotanyRole: text_match
student_paper

Genetic variation in plant functional traits as drivers in arthropod community structure

2013Role: text_match
article

Maintenance of temporal synchrony between syrphid flies and floral resources despite differential phenological responses to climate

2013Global Change BiologyRole: text_match
student_paper

Measuring the influence of phylogenetic relationships on floral visitation

2013Role: text_match
article

Mechanisms underlying plant sexual dimorphism in multi-trophic arthropod communities

2013EcologyRole: text_match
chapter

Phenology: An Integrative Environmental Science

2013Role: text_match
student_paper

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

2013Role: text_match
student_paper

The effects of road dust on pollination and reproduction of the native wildflower species, <i>Delphinium nuttallianum</i>

2013Role: text_match
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Won't you be my neighbor: neighborhood effect influences mycorrhizal and endophyte colonization

2013Role: text_match
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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.

2012Role: text_match
article

A gain of function polymorphism controlling complex traits and fitness in nature

2012ScienceRole: text_match
article

A single climate driver has direct and indirect effects on insect population dynamics

2012Ecology LettersRole: text_match
student_paper

Does nutrient enrichment interact with <i>Castilleja miniata</i> to alter plant communities in montane meadows?

2012Role: text_match
student_paper

Effects of bacterial endophytes on plant-insect interactions

2012Role: text_match
article

Evolutionary and ecological responses to anthropogenic climate change

2012Plant PhysiologyRole: text_match
student_paper

Examining top-down and bottom up effects on aphid abundance on Ligusticum porteri

2012Role: text_match
article

Genes involved in the evolution of herbivory by a leaf-mining drosophilid fly

2012Genome Biology and EvolutionRole: text_match
student_paper

How do above and belowground grass-fungus symbioses change over elevational gradients in mountainous Colorado?

2012Role: text_match
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How do the effects of herbivory and light gradients impact the overall plant fitness within different environments?

2012Role: text_match
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Influence of macronutrient imbalance on native ant foraging and interspecific interactions in the field

2012Ecological EntomologyRole: text_match
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Nonlinear effects of consumer density on multiple ecosystem processes

2012Journal of Animal EcologyRole: text_match
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Plant responses to the joint effects of herbivores and pollinators

2012Role: text_match
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The effect of ants on the population dynamics of a protective symbiont of aphids, <i>Hamiltonella defensa</i>

2012Annals of Entomological Society of AmericaRole: text_match
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The effects of floral traits on the behaviors of pollinators and pre-dispersal seed predators in a gynodioecious species, <i>Polemonium foliosissimum</i>.

2012Role: text_match
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The effects of flowering phenology and plant fitness within and across a light quality gradient for a native mustard, <i>Cardamine cordifolia</i>

2012Role: text_match
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The indirect consequences of a mutualism: comparing positive and negative components of the net interaction between honeydew-tending ants and host plants

2012Journal of Animal EcologyRole: text_match
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When resources don't rescue: flowering phenology and species interactions affect compensation to herbivory in <i>Ipomopsis aggregata</i>

2012OikosRole: text_match
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A comparative study of plant species diversity on three historic mining sites

2011Role: text_match
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Activity and abundance of bumble bees near Crested Butte, CO: diel, seasonal, and elevation effects

2011Ecological EntomologyRole: text_match
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Additive effects of herbivory, nectar robbing and seed predation on male and female fitness components of the host plant <i>Ipomopsis aggregata</i>

2011OecologiaRole: text_match
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An examination of synchrony between insect emergence and flowering in Rocky Mountain meadows

2011Ecological MonographsRole: text_match
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Biotic factors influencing feeding preferences of <i>Scaptomyza nigrita</i> (Drosphilidae) on its host plant, <i>Cardamine cordifolia</i> (Brassicaceae)

2011Role: text_match
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Butterflies show flower colour preferences but not constancy in foraging at four plant species

2011Ecological EntomologyRole: text_match
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Can fungal symbionts shift host niche dimensions to promote species coexistence?

2011Role: text_match
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Causes of predation intensity in an ant/aphid mutualist system

2011Role: text_match
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Cross-resistance between the parasites <i>Pseudomonas syringae</i> and <i>Scaptomyza nigrita</i> in the native crucifer <i>Cardamine coridifolia</i>

2011Role: text_match
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Local adaptation to habitat-specific herbivory and light levels in <i>Cardamine cordifolia</i>

2011Role: text_match
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Mining the plant-insect interface with a leafmining <i>Drosophila</i> of <i>Arabidopsis</i>

2011Molecular EcologyRole: text_match
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Parental investment in burying beetles (<i>Nicrophorus investigator</i>): influence of seasonal timing and prior experience and efficacy of minimally guided instructional strategies in K-12 and undergraduate science classrooms: a meta-analysis

2011Role: text_match
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Plant size influences mycorrhizal colonization of <i>Polemonium foliosissimum</i>

2011Role: text_match
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Role of floral nectaries and plant sex in mediating ant-aphid interactions on <i>Valeriana edulis</i>

2011Role: text_match
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Spatial distribution of mule deer (<i>Odocoileus hemionus</i>): Effects of plant palatability and habitat structure

2011Role: text_match
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The effect of ant tending on the fitness of aphids during and after colony establishment

2011Role: text_match
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The effect of ants on the population dynamics of <i>Hamiltonella defensa</i> a protective symbiont of aphids

2011Role: text_match
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The effects of elevation and climate on butterfly (<i>Lepidoptera</i>) abundance and activity

2011Role: text_match
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The effects of floral fragrance manipulations of <i>Ipomopsis aggregata</i> on the seed predator <i>Hylemya</i>

2011Role: text_match
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The effects of hemiparasitism by <i> Castilleja</i> spp on community structure in alpine ecosystems

2011Role: text_match
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A test of sexual dimorphism in <i>Valeriana edulis</i> resistance and induced responses to herbivory

2010Role: text_match
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Effects of multi-species interactions in gynodioecious populations of <i>Polemonium foliosissimum</i>

2010Role: text_match
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Oviposition behavior and offspring performance in herbivorous insects: consequences of climatic and habitat heterogeneity

2010OikosRole: text_match
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Oviposition preference of the leaf mining fly, <i>Scaptomyza nigrita</i> (Drosophilidae) on its native host plant, <i>Cardamine cordifolia</i> (Brassicaceae)

2010Role: text_match
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Species Interactions in Arthropod Communities: Density Dependence and Ant Interactions on Aphid Per Capita Population Growth

2010Role: text_match
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Testing the oviposition cues that drive preference of <i></i>Hylemya<i></i> for different sexes of <i></i>Polemonium foliosissimum<i></i>

2010Role: text_match
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The effect of an introduced predator scent on mule deer (</i>Odocoileus hemionus</i>) browsing activities in meadow habitats in Gothic, Colorado

2010Role: text_match
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The effects of phenological mismatches on demography

2010Phil Trans Royal Society BRole: text_match
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What's for lunch: deciphering ant omnivory on lupine

2010Role: text_match
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A balanced diet: Effects of ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) nutritional state on the balance between mutualism and predation upon aphids (Hemiptera: Aphididae)

2009Role: text_match
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Effects of nectar robbing on pollen deposition and hummingbird-pollinator behavior in <i>Ipomopsis aggregata</i>

2009Role: text_match
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Nectar sugar limits larval growth of solitary bees (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae)

2009Environmental EntomologyRole: text_match
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Plant community composition with respect to species richness along an altitudinal gradient in gunnison county, co

2009Role: text_match
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Possible influence of altitude, geographical distance between sites and annual precipitation rates on species richness

2009Role: text_match
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Protection at a price? Ant interactions with pollinators on aspen sunflower (<i>Helianthella quinquenervis</i>)

2009Role: text_match
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Realized tolerance to nectar robbing: compensation to floral enemies in <i>Ipomopsis aggregata</i>

2009Annals of BotanyRole: text_match
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Reciprocal effects among the ant <i>Formica obscuripes</i> and the asters <i>Chrysothamnus viscidiflorus</i> and <i>Artemisia tridentata</i>

2009Role: text_match
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Species richness along an elevational gradient

2009Role: text_match
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The effects of mine disturbance and contamination on pollination of subalpine wildflowers

2009Role: text_match
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The importance of interannual variation and bottom-up nitrogen enrichment for plant-pollinator networks

2009OikosRole: text_match
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Understanding insect life histories and senescence through a resource allocation lens

2009Functional EcologyRole: text_match
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Variation in host plant sex mediates ant-aphid interactions

2009Role: text_match
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Bottom-up effects of nutrient enrichment on plants, pollinators, and their interactions

2008Role: text_match
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Effect of Soil Metals on Pollination of Subalpine Wildflowers

2008Role: text_match
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Effects of aggregation size and host plant on the survival of an ant-tended Membracid (Hemiptera: Membracidae): potential roles in selecting for generalized host plant use

2008Annals of the Entomological Society of AmericaRole: text_match
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Effects of climate change on phenology, frost damage, and floral abundance of montane wildflowers

2008EcologyRole: text_match
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Evaluation of the field impact of an adventitious herbivore on an invasive plant, yellow toadflax, in CO, USA

2008Plant EcologyRole: text_match
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Insect herbivore stoichiometry: the relative importance of host plants and ant mutualists

2008Ecological EntomologyRole: text_match
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Interactions between nectar robbers and seed predators mediated by a shared host plant, <i>Ipomopsis aggregata</i>

2008OecologiaRole: text_match
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Mechanisms of tolerance to floral larceny in two animal-pollinated wildflowers, <i>Polemonium viscosum</i> and <i>Ipomopsis aggregata</i>

2008EcologyRole: text_match
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Reciprocal benefits in a plant-pollinator mutualism

2008Role: text_match
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Ant-aphid interactions: are ants friends, enemies, or both?

2007Annals of the Entomological Society of AmericaRole: text_match
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The effect of ants on membracid nymph size and instar

2007Role: text_match
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Bottom-up mediation of an ant-membracid mutualism: effects from different host plants

2006Evolutionary EcologyRole: text_match
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Emergence cues of a mayfly in a high-altitude stream ecosystem: Potential response to climate change

2006Ecological ApplicationsRole: text_match
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Floral larceny: Implications, resistance, and the potential for tolerance

2006Role: text_match
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The timing of the ant-effect on nymph size and survivorship in an ant-treehopper mutualism

2006Role: text_match
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Impacts of Mule Deer Herbivory on Herbaceous Vegetation in the Gothic Area, with Focus on Aquilegia coerulea

2005Role: text_match
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Importance of Fertilization of Host Plants to Ant Tending and Growth Rates in Glaucopysche lygadmus (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae)

2005Annals of the Entomological Society of AmericaRole: text_match
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The Effect of Ant Colony Proximity on Membracid Survivorship

2005Role: text_match
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The effects of Castilleja miniata's parasitic relationship with Delphinium nuttallianum on pollinator visitation and pollination success

2005Role: text_match
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Development to diapause in a population of <i>Euphydryas gillettii</i> (Nymphalidae): effects of egg cluster size and habitat parameters

2004Role: text_match
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Direct and indirect effects of pollinators and seed predators to selection on plant and floral traits

2004OikosRole: text_match
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The dual role of floral traits: pollinator attraction and plant defense

2004EcologyRole: text_match
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The ecology of pollination and nectar robbing in Linaria vulgaris in the Colorado Rocky Mountains

2004TSpaceRole: text_match
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The structure of plant-pollinator interactions in montane meadow environments

2004Role: text_match
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What is the nature of the ant-aphid relationship?

2004Role: text_match
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Subalpine meadow flowering phenology responses to climate change: integrating experimental and gradient methods

2003Ecological MonographsRole: text_match
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The ecology and evolution of host plant use by the generalist membracid, <i>Publilia modesta</i>

2003Role: text_match
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The evolution of wing color: male mate choice opposes adaptive wing color divergence in <i>Colias</i> butterflies

2003EvolutionRole: text_match
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Self-Similarity in the Distribution of Plant Species Across a Successional Gradient

2002Role: text_match
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The Combined Effects of Aphid-Ant Mutualism and Fertilizer on the Resource Allocation of Valerian edulis

2002Role: text_match
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The evolution of wing color in <i>Colias</i> butterflies: heritability, sex linkage, and population divergence

2002EvolutionRole: text_match
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Variation in nectar robbing over time, space, and species

2002OecologiaRole: text_match
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Volatile production by the buds and corollas of two sympatric, confamial plants, Ipomopsis aggregata and Polemonium foliosissimum

2002Journal of Chemical EcologyRole: text_match
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Assessing the quality of different ant species as partners of a myrmecophilous butterfly

2001OecologiaRole: text_match
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Control of litter decomposition in a subalpine meadow-sagebrush steppe ecotone under climate change

2001Ecological ApplicationsRole: text_match
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Publilia modesta (Membracidae) and the effect of moisture availability on host plant selection

2001Role: text_match
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The matrix matters: effective isolation in fragmented landscapes

2001American NaturalistRole: text_match
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Herbivory and pollination in hemiparasitic plants: effects of host plant and host-obtained alkaloids

2000Role: text_match
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The ecological and evolutionary significance of frost in the context of climate change

2000Ecology LettersRole: text_match
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Nectar Robbing in <i>Ipomopsis aggregata</i>: Effects on Pollinator Behavior and Plant Fitness

1998OecologiaRole: text_match
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Cyclic Colonization in Predictably Ephemeral Habitats: A Template for Biological Control in Annual Crop Systems

1997Biological ControlRole: text_match
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Effect of the presence of aphids (Aphididae) on oviposition in the pre-dispersal seed predator <i>Hylemya</i> (<i>Delia</i>) spp. on the host plant <i>Polemonium foliossissimum</i> (Polemoniaceae)

1997Role: text_match
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An exploration of the effects of ant-aphid interaction on host plant growth

1995Role: text_match
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Oviposition patterns and larval success of a pre-dispersal seed predator attacking two confamilial host plants

1995OikosRole: text_match
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Diapause and the host plant affiliations of lycaenid butterflies

1994OikosRole: text_match
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Migration of rufous hummingbirds

1993WildbirdRole: text_match
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Factors influencing host plant range in two lycaenid butterflies

1992Role: text_match
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The importance of host plant phenology on the survival and growth rate of <i>Glaucopysche lygdamus</i>

1991Role: text_match
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Seed protection by ants foraging on the extrafloral nectaries of the aspen sunflower, <i>Helianthella quinquenervis</i>

1989Role: text_match
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Ants tending <i>Artemisaphis artemiscola</i> on sagebrush reduce herbivory on the host plant

1986Role: text_match
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Influence of host plant height and distribution on herbivory patterns

1984Role: text_match
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Oviposition Behavior of <i>Hylemya</i>(Delia)sp. (Diptera:Anthomyiidae): Suboptimal Host Plant Choice?

1984Environmental EntomologyRole: text_match
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The coevolution of <i>Euphydryas chalcedona</i> butterflies and their larval host plants. II. Maternal and host plant effects on larval growth, development, and food-use efficiency

1983OecologiaRole: text_match