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Mertensia

Common names: bluebells
Taxonomy: Plantae > Tracheophyta > Magnoliopsida > Boraginales > Boraginaceae
Roles: study subject
ITIS TSN: 31660
External: RMBL Collections · iNaturalist · iDigBio · GenBank
Papers: 129 | Mentions: 149

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Knowledge graph centered on Mertensia with 46 nodes and 135 connections. Top connected: Coupled dynamics of body mass and population growt, Climate change is affecting altitudinal migrants a, Unknown, Subalpine meadow flowering phenology responses to , Hummingbird.

Publications (129)

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Foraging preferences of generalist Megachilidae

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Impacts of earlier snowmelt on fruiting phenology and seed success of Rocky Mountain wildflowers

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Picky eater? How different environmental factors affect broad-tailed hummingbirds’ (Selasphorus platycercus) foraging patterns in the Rocky Mountains

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Quantifying ethanol in bumble bee honey and Colorado rocky mountain wildflowers

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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
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The impact of soil moisture, nectar production, and spectral reflectance on hummingbird visitation patterns to the Scarlet Gilia (Ipomopsis aggregata)

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

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How does early snowmelt affect pollen deposition on spring wildflowers?

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Investigating the potential mechanism behind bumble bee preference for Corydalis flowers inhabited by nectar specialist yeast

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

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The Impact of Delphinium nuttallianum and Ipomopsis aggregata Phenology on Broad-tailed Hummingbird (Selasphorus platycercus) Visitation Patterns

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The Impact of Delphinium nuttallianum and Ipomopsis aggregata Phenology on Broad tailed Hummingbird (Selasphorus platycercus) Visitation Patterns

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Current and lagged climate affects phenology across diverse taxonomic groups

2023Proceedings of the Royal Society BRole: text_match
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Differences in individual flowering time change pollen limitation and seed set in three montane wildflowers

2023American Journal of BotanyRole: text_match
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Effects of Daily Temperature Changes on Broad-Tailed Hummingbird Foraging Patterns

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Talking Yeast: The characterization of bumblebee- and nectar- specialist yeast volatiles in Corydalis caseana

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Climate change and phenology

2022WIREs Climate ChangeRole: text_match
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Earlier snow melt and reduced summer precipitation alter floral traits important to pollination

2022Global Change BiologyRole: text_match
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Revealing the direct and indirect effects of climate change on soil nutrient dynamics and forage resources in mountain ecosystems

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Effects of nestling begging behavior on parental food provisioning in the Mountain White-crowned Sparrow

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Experimental Test of the Combined Effects of Water Availability and Flowering Time on Pollinator Visitation and Seed Set

2021Frontiers of Ecology & EvolutionRole: text_match
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Global Warming, Advancing Bloom and Evidence for Pollinator Plasticity from Long-Term Bee Emergence Monitoring

2021InsectsRole: text_match
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The effects of anthropogenic change on pollination in plant-pollinator communities

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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
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Bumble bees are constant to nectar-robbing behaviour despite low switching costs

2020Animal BehaviourRole: text_match
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Competition for nectar resources does not affect bee foraging tactic constancy

2020Ecological EntomologyRole: text_match
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How Spatial Variation Affects Plant Phenology

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Pollinator visitation rate and effectiveness vary with flowering phenology

2020American Journal of BotanyRole: text_match
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Quantifying Nectar Trait Responses to Natural Variation in Water Availability in Subalpine Plant Communities

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Adaptation and diversification of bluebells <i>Mertensia</i> spp., Boranginaceae

2019Role: study subject
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Climate change, phenological shifts, and species interactions: Case studies in subalpine plant and migratory fish populations

2019Role: study subject
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Comparing predictive measures and model functions for estimating plant biomass: lessons from a sagebrush–rabbitbrush community

2019Plant EcologyRole: text_match
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Effect of blood parasites on incubation efficiency of <i>Z. l. oriantha</i> in the Colorado Rocky Mountains

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Floral reward strategies, visitor behavior, and plant reproductive outcomes

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Intraspecific flower color variation along elevation gradients

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Investigating the relationship between plant morphology, density, and herbivory of <i>Thlaspi</i>

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

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

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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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Quantifying Nectar Resources in Bumble Bee Visited Plants

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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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The depredation of Mountain White-crowned Sparrow (<i>Zonotrichia leucophyrys oriantha</i>) nests by the golden-mantled ground squirrel (<i>Callospermophilus lateralis</i>) and long-tailed weasel (<i>Mustela frenata</i>)

2019The Wilson J. of OrnithologyRole: text_match
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The function of floral orientation in bluebells: interactions with pollinators and rain in two species of <i> Mertensia </i> (Boraginaceae)

2019Journal of Plant EcologyRole: text_match
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The individual and combined effects of snowmelt timing and frost exposure on the reproductive success of montane forbs

2019Journal of EcologyRole: text_match
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Atypical flowers can be as profitable as typical hummingbird flowers

2018The American NaturalistRole: text_match
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Can Variation of Insect Populations Affect Mountain White-crowned Sparrow Daily Nest Survival?

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Characterizing nectar content in wet and dry subalpine meadows during an extreme summer drought

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Climate Warming Drives Local Extinction: Evidence from Observation and Experimentation

2018ScienceAdvancesRole: text_match
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Effect of blood parasites on secondary sexual characteristics and morphology in mountain white-crowned sparrows

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Effects of Climate Change on Plants, Pollinators and Their Interactions

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First-order controls of soil and leaf moisture

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Why are some plant-nectar robber interactions commensalisms?

2018OikosRole: text_match
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Does bumble bee (<i>Bombus spp.</i>) diet breadth vary with differences in floral resource abundance?

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Effects of Life History Traits in the Mountain White-Crowned Sparrow During Incubation

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Phenological responses to multiple environmental drivers under climate change: insights from a long-term observational study and a manipulative field experiment

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Plant-Pollinator Interactions and Environmental Change: Effects of Experimental Changes in Phenology and Water Availability on a Montane Wildflower

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Shifts in water availability mediate plant–pollinator interactions

2017New PhytologistRole: text_match
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Variation in bill morphology and pollen prevalence in the Broad-Tailed Hummingbird (<i>Selasphorus platycercus</i>)

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Assessing pollinators’ contribution to the reproductive success of <i>Mertensia ciliata</i>

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Bill Morphology and Niche Partitioning in <i>Selasphorus platycercus</i>

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Competitive context drives pollinator behavior: linking foraging plasticity, natural pollen deposition, and plant reproduction.

2016Role: text_match
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Effects of climate change on phenologies and distributions of bumble bees and the plants they visit

2016EcosphereRole: text_match
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Frost sensitivity of leaves and flowers of subalpine plants is related to tissue type and phenology.

2016Journal of EcologyRole: text_match
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Temperature and Nestling Development: Temporal Variations in <i>Zonotrichia leucophrys oriantha</i> Feeding Frequency

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

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The Changing Floral Color Landscape Across an Alpine Elevation Gradient

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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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Causes and consequences of dominant and subdominant plant species effects on ecosystem function: using above-and belowground traits in an alpine meadow system

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Effects of Alpine Shrub Cover on Territorial Male White-Crown Sparrows Densities.

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Effects of early snowmelt and frost on plant-pollinator interactions.

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Why doesn't nectar robbing decrease seed set in some bee-pollinated plants?

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Frost Sensitivity of Subalpine Plants in the Colorado Rocky Mountains: The Effects of Seasonality, Water Content, and Phylogeny

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Plant Successional Changes Over 67 Years on the Gothic Earthflow.

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Revisiting Darwin's hypothesis: Does greater intraspecific variability increase species' ecological breadth?

2014American Journal of BotanyRole: text_match
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Stimulation of flower nectar replenishment by removal: a survey of eleven animal-pollinated plant species

2014Journal of Pollination EcologyRole: text_match
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Measuring the influence of phylogenetic relationships on floral visitation

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Patterns of selective caching behavior of a generalist herbivore, the American Pika (<i>Ochotona princeps</i>)

2013Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine ResearchRole: text_match
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Phenology: An Integrative Environmental Science

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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.

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The structure and function of subalpine ecosystems in the face of climate change

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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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Intraspecific variation of specific leaf area along an elevational gradient

2011Role: text_match
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Seasonal change in a pollinator community and the maintenance of style length variation in Mertensia fusiformis (Boraginaceae)

2011Annals of BotanyRole: 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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Changes in snowmelt date and summer precipitation affect the flowering phenology of <i>Erythronium grandiflorum</i> (Glacier Lily; Liliaceae)

2010American Journal of BotanyRole: text_match
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Consequences of variation in flowering time within and among individuals of <i>Mertensia fusiformis</i> (Boraginaceae), an early spring wildflower

2010Amer J of BotanyRole: text_match
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Coupled dynamics of body mass and population growth in response to environmental change

2010NatureRole: text_match
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Flowering phenology in subalpine meadows: does climate variation influence community co-flowering patterns?

2010EcologyRole: text_match
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Nectar and pollen rewards of invasive plants and their native congeners

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Plant–Pollinator interactions in a changing climate

2010Role: text_match
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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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Does stigma-anther separation prevent sexual interference in dwarf bluebells (<i>Mertensia fusiformis</i>)?

2009Role: text_match
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Intercomparison, interpretation, and assessment of spring phenology in North America estimated from remote sensing for 1982 to 2006

2009Global Change BiologyRole: text_match
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Is there a positive correlation between bee size and size parameters of the flowers the bees visit for pollen to provision their nests?

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Plant community composition with respect to species richness along an altitudinal gradient in gunnison county, co

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

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Species richness along an elevational gradient

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Species richness along elevation gradient and possible correlation factors

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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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Variation in the impact of climate change on flowering phenology and abundance: an examination of two pairs of closely related wildflower species

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

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Reciprocal benefits in a plant-pollinator mutualism

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Changing distributions, changing climate: Using <i>Bombus</i> as an indicator of global warming near Crested Butte, Colorado

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Predicting the effects of nectar robbing on plant reproduction: implications of pollen limitation and plant mating system

2007American Journal of BotanyRole: text_match
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Ecosystem responses to warming-induced plant species loss and increased nitrogen availability in a Rocky Mountain subalpine meadow

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

2006Role: text_match
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The Effects of Distance From a Yellow-Bellied Marmot Burrow on Plant Diversity

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The structure of plant-pollinator interactions in montane meadow environments

2004Role: text_match
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Effects of food addition on life history of yellow-bellied marmots

2003Oecologia MontanaRole: text_match
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Observations on plant choice by foraging yellow-bellied marmots

2003Oecologia MontanaRole: 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 effect of food supplementation on juvenile growth and survival in Marmota flaviventris

2003Journal of MammalogyRole: text_match
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Plant responses to experimental warming in a montane meadow

2001EcologyRole: text_match
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The impact of floral larceny on individuals, populations, and communities

2001OecologiaRole: text_match
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Are nectar robbers cheaters or mutualists?

2000EcologyRole: text_match
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Climate change is affecting altitudinal migrants and hibernating species

2000Proceedings of the National Academy of ScienceRole: text_match
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The effects of road proximity on pollinator visit to <i>Mertensia ciliata</i>

1997Role: text_match
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Phenotypic plasticity and resource allocation in the leaves of <i>Geranium richardsonii</i>, <i>Mertensia ciliata</i>, and <i>Valeriana occidentalis</i> in a sun dominant versus a shade dominant habit

1996Role: text_match
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Global warming and soil microclimate: results from a meadow-warming experiment

1995Ecological ApplicationsRole: text_match
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Pollinator effectiveness of <i>Mertensia fusiformis</i>, <i>Delphinium nelsonii</i>, and <i>D. barbeyii</i>: is there one best pollinator to which the plant is adapted?

1995Role: text_match
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Shifting dominance within a montane vegetation community: results from a climate-warming experiment

1995ScienceRole: text_match
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Pollinator restriction in the narrow-tube flower type of Mertensia ciliata (James) G. Don (Boraginaceae)

1994Plant Species BiologyRole: text_match
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Distribution of <i>Mertensia fusiformis</i>

1983Role: text_match
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Seed Dispersal by Ants in the Rocky Mountains

1983Southwestern NaturalistRole: text_match
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Caloric content of Rocky Mountain subalpine and Alpine Plants

1976Journal of Range ManagementRole: text_match
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Adaptations in <i>Mertensia bakerii</i> to alpine habitat

1971Role: text_match
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Habitat of Pocket Gophers in Cochetopa Creek Drainage, Colorado

1968American Midland NaturalistRole: text_match
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An investigation of the ecology of <i>Mertensia ciliata</i> in Colorado

1961EcologyRole: text_match
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Variation patterns in four clones of <i>Mertensia ciliata</i>

1959MadronoRole: text_match