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Mertensia ciliata

Taxonomy: Plantae > Tracheophyta > Magnoliopsida > Boraginales > Boraginaceae
Roles: habitat component, study subject, reference species
ITIS TSN: 31668
External: RMBL Collections · iNaturalist · iDigBio · GenBank
Papers: 60 | Mentions: 72

Local Knowledge Graph (45 entities)

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Knowledge graph centered on Mertensia ciliata with 45 nodes and 152 connections. Top connected: Coupled dynamics of body mass and population growt, Climate change is affecting altitudinal migrants a, Unknown, Hummingbird, Bombus.

Publications (60)

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

2025Role: text_match
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Quantifying ethanol in bumble bee honey and Colorado rocky mountain wildflowers

2025Role: 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)

2025Role: habitat component
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The Impact of Delphinium nuttallianum and Ipomopsis aggregata Phenology on Broad-tailed Hummingbird (Selasphorus platycercus) Visitation Patterns

2024Role: text_match
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The Impact of Delphinium nuttallianum and Ipomopsis aggregata Phenology on Broad tailed Hummingbird (Selasphorus platycercus) Visitation Patterns

2024Role: text_match
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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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Earlier snow melt and reduced summer precipitation alter floral traits important to pollination

2022Global Change BiologyRole: reference species
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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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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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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

2020Role: text_match
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Adaptation and diversification of bluebells <i>Mertensia</i> spp., Boranginaceae

2019Role: study subject
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Floral reward strategies, visitor behavior, and plant reproductive outcomes

2019Role: text_match
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Intraspecific flower color variation along elevation gradients

2019Role: text_match
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Quantifying Nectar Resources in Bumble Bee Visited Plants

2019Role: text_match
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Characterizing nectar content in wet and dry subalpine meadows during an extreme summer drought

2018Role: text_match
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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?

2017Role: text_match
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Plant-Pollinator Interactions and Environmental Change: Effects of Experimental Changes in Phenology and Water Availability on a Montane Wildflower

2017Role: study subject
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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>)

2017Role: text_match
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Assessing pollinators’ contribution to the reproductive success of <i>Mertensia ciliata</i>

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

2016Role: text_match
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The Changing Floral Color Landscape Across an Alpine Elevation Gradient

2016Role: text_match
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Why doesn't nectar robbing decrease seed set in some bee-pollinated plants?

2015Role: text_match
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Frost Sensitivity of Subalpine Plants in the Colorado Rocky Mountains: The Effects of Seasonality, Water Content, and Phylogeny

2014Role: text_match
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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

2013Role: text_match
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Phenology: An Integrative Environmental Science

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
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Intraspecific variation of specific leaf area along an elevational gradient

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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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

2010Role: text_match
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Plant–Pollinator interactions in a changing climate

2010Role: 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?

2009Role: 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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Species richness along an elevational gradient

2009Role: text_match
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Species richness along elevation gradient and possible correlation factors

2009Role: 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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Reciprocal benefits in a plant-pollinator mutualism

2008Role: text_match
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Changing distributions, changing climate: Using <i>Bombus</i> as an indicator of global warming near Crested Butte, Colorado

2007Role: 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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The effect of food supplementation on juvenile growth and survival in Marmota flaviventris

2003Journal of MammalogyRole: 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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Pollinator restriction in the narrow-tube flower type of Mertensia ciliata (James) G. Don (Boraginaceae)

1994Plant Species BiologyRole: 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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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