Contrasting long-term alpine and subalpine precipitation trends in a mid-latitude North American mountain system, Colorado Front Range, USA

Soil respiration variability across a soil moisture and vegetation community gradient within a snow-scoured alpine meadow

(2015) John F. Knowles et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

Vegetation change at high elevation: scale dependence and interactive effects on Niwot Ridge

(2015) Katharine N. Suding et al.   Plant Ecology & Diversity

Of plants and pikas: evidence for a climate-mediated decline in forage and cache quality

(2015) Sabuj Bhattacharyya et al.   Plant Ecology & Diversity

Cryosphere: ice on Niwot Ridge and in the Green Lakes Valley, Colorado Front Range

(2015) Matthias Leopold et al.   Plant Ecology & Diversity

The ‘teflon basin’ myth: hydrology and hydrochemistry of a seasonally snow-covered catchment

(2015) Mark W. Williams et al.   Plant Ecology & Diversity

Winter gas exchange between the atmosphere and snow-covered soils on Niwot Ridge, Colorado, USA

(2015) Daniel Liptzin et al.   Plant Ecology & Diversity

Elevation-dependent warming in mountain regions of the world

(2015)   Nature Climate Change

Relating Sub-Surface Ice Features to Physiological Stress in a Climate Sensitive Mammal, the American Pika (Ochotona princeps)

(2015) Jennifer L. Wilkening et al.   PLoS One

Fluxes of energy, water, and carbon dioxide from mountain ecosystems at Niwot Ridge, Colorado

(2014) John F. Knowles et al.   Plant Ecology & Diversity

Plant–microbe interactions at multiple scales across a high-elevation landscape

(2014) Steven K. Schmidt et al.   Plant Ecology & Diversity

A slide down a slippery slope – alpine ecosystem responses to nitrogen deposition

(2014) William D. Bowman et al.   Plant Ecology & Diversity

Shifts in flowering phenology reshape a subalpine plant community

(2014) Paul J. CaraDonna et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Determinants of pika population density vs. occupancy in the Southern Rocky Mountains

(2013) Liesl P. Erb et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Snow Temperature Changes within a Seasonal Snowpack and Their Relationship to Turbulent Fluxes of Sensible and Latent Heat

(2013) Sean P. Burns et al.   JOURNAL OF HYDROMETEOROLOGY

Changes in alpine vegetation over 21 years: Are patterns across a heterogeneous landscape consistent with predictions?

(2013) Marko J. Spasojevic et al.   Ecosphere

Geomorphic Determinants of Species Composition of Alpine Tundra, Glacier National Park, U.S.A.

(2012) George P. Malanson et al.   ARCTIC ANTARCTIC AND ALPINE RESEARCH

Climate change in mountains: a review of elevation-dependent warming and its possible causes

(2012) Imtiaz Rangwala et al.   CLIMATIC CHANGE

Global Change and the World's Mountains— Research Needs and Emerging Themes for Sustainable Development

(2012) Astrid Björnsen Gurung et al.   MOUNTAIN RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT

Warming and the dependence of limber pine (Pinus flexilis) establishment on summer soil moisture within and above its current elevation range

(2012) Andrew B. Moyes et al.   OECOLOGIA

Limnology of the Green Lakes Valley: phytoplankton ecology and dissolved organic matter biogeochemistry at a long-term ecological research site

(2012) Matthew P. Miller et al.   Plant Ecology & Diversity

Conifer seedling recruitment across a gradient from forest to alpine tundra: effects of species, provenance, and site

(2012) C. Castanha et al.   Plant Ecology & Diversity

Elevation-Dependent Temperature Trends in the Rocky Mountain Front Range: Changes over a 56- and 20-Year Record

(2012) Chris R. McGuire et al.   PLoS One

Recent advances in mountain climate research

(2012) Roger G. Barry   THEORETICAL AND APPLIED CLIMATOLOGY

Shrub expansion in tundra ecosystems: dynamics, impacts and research priorities

(2011) Isla H Myers-Smith et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Mountain ecosystem response to global change

(2011) Jörg Löffler et al.   Erdkunde

Recent hydrologic change in a Colorado alpine basin: an indicator of permafrost thaw?

(2011) Nel Caine   ANNALS OF GLACIOLOGY

Carbon balance of Arctic tundra under increased snow cover mediated by a plant pathogen

(2011) Johan Olofsson et al.   Nature Climate Change

Changes in snowmelt date and summer precipitation affect the flowering phenology of Erythronium grandiflorum (glacier lily; Liliaceae)

(2010) Allison M. Lambert et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Observational evidence from two mountainous regions that near-surface wind speeds are declining more rapidly at higher elevations than lower elevations: 1960-2006

(2010) Tim R. McVicar et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Contemporary climate change alters the pace and drivers of extinction

(2010) ERIK A. BEEVER et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Relationships between Barrier Jet Heights, Orographic Precipitation Gradients, and Streamflow in the Northern Sierra Nevada

(2010) Jessica D. Lundquist et al.   JOURNAL OF HYDROMETEOROLOGY

A comparison of water and carbon dioxide exchange at a windy alpine tundra and subalpine forest site near Niwot Ridge, Colorado

(2009) Peter D. Blanken et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

White on green: under-snow microbial processes and trace gas fluxes through snow, Niwot Ridge, Colorado Front Range

(2009) Mark W. Williams et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

Winter climate change in alpine tundra: plant responses to changes in snow depth and snowmelt timing

(2009) Sonja Wipf et al.   CLIMATIC CHANGE

Warming in the Tibetan Plateau: Possible influences of the changes in surface water vapor

(2009) Imtiaz Rangwala et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Longer growing seasons lead to less carbon sequestration by a subalpine forest

(2009) JIA HU et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Changes in the Timing of Snowmelt and Streamflow in Colorado: A Response to Recent Warming

(2009) David W. Clow   JOURNAL OF CLIMATE

Biological consequences of earlier snowmelt from desert dust deposition in alpine landscapes

(2009) Heidi Steltzer et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Cross-scale Drivers of Natural Disturbances Prone to Anthropogenic Amplification: The Dynamics of Bark Beetle Eruptions

(2008) Kenneth F. Raffa et al.   BIOSCIENCE

EFFECTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON PHENOLOGY, FROST DAMAGE, AND FLORAL ABUNDANCE OF MONTANE WILDFLOWERS

(2008) David W. Inouye   ECOLOGY

Temperature trends at high elevations: Patterns across the globe

(2008) N. C. Pepin et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Physiographically sensitive mapping of climatological temperature and precipitation across the conterminous United States

(2008) Christopher Daly et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY

Topographic controls on snow distribution, soil moisture, and species diversity of herbaceous alpine vegetation, Niwot Ridge, Colorado

(2008) M. I. Litaor et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Phylogeny and Ecophysiology of Opportunistic “Snow Molds” from a Subalpine Forest Ecosystem

(2008) S. K. Schmidt et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Increasing eolian dust deposition in the western United States linked to human activity

(2008) J. C. Neff et al.   Nature Geoscience

Estimating stream chemistry during the snowmelt pulse using a spatially distributed, coupled snowmelt and hydrochemical modeling approach

(2008) Noah P. Molotch et al.   WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH