Mountain Research Station Publications; 1997-2004

2004

Burns, D.A. 2004. The effects of atmospheric nitrogen deposition in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado and southern Wyoming, USA- a critical review. Environmental Pollution v. 127(2004) pp. 257-269. 

Forbis, T.A.; Doak, D.F. 2004. Seedling establishment and life history trade-offs in alpine plants. American Journal of Botany vol. 91 (7) pp. 1147-1153.

Forbis, T.A.; Larmore, J.; Addis, E. 2004. Temporal patterns in seedling establishment on pocket gopher disturbances. Oecologia v. 138 pp. 112-121.

Lipson, D.A.; Schmidt, S.K. 2004. Seasonal changes in an alpine soil bacterial community in the Colorado Rocky Mountains. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. vol. 70 pp. 2867-2879. 

Liu, F.; Williams, M.W.; Caine, N. 2004. Source waters and flow paths in an alpine catchment, Colorado Front Range, United States. Water Resources Research vol. 40 . 

Meyer, A.F.; Lipson, D.A.; Schadt, C.W.; Martin, A.P.; Schmidt, S.K. 2004. Molecular and metabolic characterization of cold tolerant, alpine soil Pseudomonas, sensu stricto. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. vol. 70 pp. 483-489. 

Schmidt, S.K.; Lipson, D.A. 2004. Microbial growth under the snow: Implications for nutrient and allelochemical availability in temperate soils. Plant and Soil vol. 259 pp. 1-7. 

Schmidt, S.K.; Lipson, D.A.; Ley, R.E.; Fisk, M.C.; West, A.E. 2004. Impacts of chronic nitrogen additions vary seasonally and by microbial functional group in tundra soils. Biogeochemistry vol. 69 pp. 1-17. 

Seastedt, T.R.; Bowman, W.D.; Caine, T.N.; McKnight, D.; Townsend, A.; Williams, M.W. 2004. The Landscape Continuum: A Model for High Elevation Ecosystems. Bioscience vol. 54 no. 2 pp. 111-121.

Suding, K.N.; Larson, J.; Thorsos, E.; Steltzer, H.; Bowman, W.B. 2004. Species effects on resource supply rates: do they influence competitive interactions?. Plant Ecology vol. 175 pp. 47-58. 

Toetz, D.; Payton, M. E. 2004. Synergism of Nutrients and Humic Acid in Accrual of Periphytic Biomass in a Subalpine Stream, Colorado Front Range. Journal of Freshwater Ecology vol. 19 no. 1 pp 35-40.

Bowman, W.D.; Bahn, L.; Damm, M. 2003. Alpine landscape variation in foliar nitrogen and phosphorus concentrations and the relation to soil nitrogen and phosphorus availability. Arctic, Antarctic and Alpine Research v. 35 pp. 144-149. 

Burns, D.A. 2003. Atmospheric nitrogen deposition in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado and southern Wyoming- a review and new analysis of past study results. Atmospheric Environment v. 37 pp. 921-932. 

Fenn, M.E.; Baron, J.S.; Allen, E.B.; Rueth, H.M.; Nydick, K.R.; Geiser, L.; Bowman, W.D.; Sickman, J.O.; Meixner, T.; Johnson, D.W.; Neitlich, P. 2003. Ecological Effects of Nitrogen Deposition in the Western United States. BioScience v. 53 pp. 404-420. 

Forbis, T.A. 2003. Seedling Demography in an Alpine Ecosystem. American Journal of Botany v. 90(8) pp. 1197-1206. 

Gonzalez, G.; Seastedt, T.R.; Donato, Z. 2003. Earthworms, arthropods and pland litter decomposition in aspen (Populus tremuloides) and lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta) forsests in Colorado, USA. Pedobiologia vol. 47 pp 863-869. 

Greenland, D. 2003. An LTER Network overview and introduction to El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) climatic signal and response. Climate Variability and Ecosystem Response. Greenland, D., D. Goodin, and R. Smith (Eds). Oxford University Press. New York. 

Greenland, D. 2003. Introductory overview (to climate variability and ecosystem response at selected LTER sites at multiple timescales). Climate Variability and Ecosystem Response. Greenland, D., D. Goodin, and R. Smith (Eds). Oxford University Press. New York. 

Greenland, D. 2003. Short-Term climate events- Synthesis. Climate Variability and Ecosystem Response. Greenland, D., D. Goodin, and R. Smith (Eds). Oxford University Press. New York.

Greenland, D.; Goodin, D.; Smith, R. 2003. An introduction to climate variability and ecosystem response.. Climate Variability and Ecosystem Response. Greenland, D., D. Goodin, and R. Smith (Eds). Oxford University Press. New York. 

Greenland, D.; Goodin, D.; Smith, R. 2003. Climate Variability and Ecosystem Response. Oxford University Press. New York. 459 pp. 

Greenland, D.; Goodin, D.G.; Smith, R.C.; Swanson, F.J. 2003. Climate variability and ecosystem response - Synthesis. Climate Variability and Ecosystem Response. Greenland, D., D. Goodin, and R. Smith (Eds). Oxford University Press. New York. 

Greenland, D.; Hayden, B.P.; Magnuson, J.J.; Ollinger, S.V.; Pielke Sr., R.A.; Smith, R.C. 2003. Long-Term Research on Biosphere-Atmosphere Interactions. Bioscience v. 53 no. 1 pp. 33-45. 

Hood, E.W.; McKnight, D.; Williams, M.W. 2003. Sources and chemical character of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) across an alpine/subalpine ecotone, Green Lakes Valley, Colorado Front Range, USA. Water Resources Research v. 39 no. 1188 . 

Hood, E.W.; Williams, M.W.; Caine, N. 2003. Landscape Controls on Organic and Inorganic Nitrogen Leaching across an Alpine/Subalpine Ecotone, Green Lakes Valley, Colorado Front Range. Ecosystems v. 6 pp. 31-45. 

Meloche, C.G. ; Diggle, P.K. 2003. The pattern of carbon allocation supporting growth of preformed shoot primoridia in Acomastylis rossii. . American Journal of Botany v. 90 pp. 1313-1320. 

Miller, A.E.; Bowman, W.D. 2003. Alpine plants show species-level differences in the uptake of organic and inorganic nitrogen. Plant and Soil v. 250 pp 283-292. 

Nanus, L; Campbell, D.H.; Ingersoll, G.P.; Clow, D.W.; Mast, M.A. 2003. Atmospheric deposition maps for the Rocky Mountains. Atmospheric Environment vol. 37 pp. 4881-4892. 

Schadt, C.W.; Martin, A.P.; Lipson, D.A.; Schmidt, S.K. 2003. Seasonal Dynamics of Previously Unknown Fungal Lineages in Tundra Soils. Science v. 301 pp. 1359-1361. 

Scott-Denton, L.E.; Sparks, K.L.; Monson, R.K. 2003. Spatial and temporal controls of soil respiration rate in a high-elevation, supalpine forest. Soil Biology and Biochemistry vol. 35 pp. 525-534. 

Tomaszewski, T.; Boyce, R.; Sievering, H. 2003. Canopy uptake of atmospheric nitrogen and new growth nitrogen requirement at a Colorado subalpine forest. Can. J. of Forest Research v. 33 no. 11 pp. 2221-2227. 

Williams, M.W.; Hood, E.; Caine, N. 2003. Headwater catchments of the Boulder Creek Watershed. Chapter 8 in Murphy, S.F., Verplanck, P.L., and Barber, L.B., Eds., Comprehensive water quality of the Boulder Creek Watershed, Colorado, during high-flow and low-flow conditions, 2000: U.S. Geological Survey Water Resources Investigations Report 03-4045, pp 185-197.. 

Williams, M.W.; Losleben, M.V.; Hamann, H.B. 2003. Alpine Areas in the Colorado Front Range as Monitors of Climate Change and Ecosystem Response. The Geographic Review v. 92(2) pp. 180-191.

Bechtold, H.A.; Forbis, T.A; Bowman, W.D. ; Diggle, P.K. 2002. Lack of reproductive plasticity in alpine Saxifraga rhomboidea Greene (Saxifragaceae). Nordic Journal of Botany v. 22 pp. 361-368. 

Bowman, W.D.; Cairns, D. M.; Baron, J.S.; Seastedt, T.R. 2002. Islands in the sky: Tundra and treeline. In: Baron, J.S., D. Fagre, and R. Hauer (eds.) Rocky Mountain Futures: an Ecological Perspective. Island Press. 

Bowman, W.D.; Damm, M. 2002. Causes and consequences of vascular plant diversity in the Rocky Mountain alpine. In: Mountain biodiversity: a global assessment,(Ch. Korner and E. Spehn, eds) Parthenon Publishing, London, UK. 

Burns, D.A. 2002. The Effects of Atmospheric Nitrogen Deposition in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado and Southern Wyoming-a Synthesis and Critical Assessment of Published Results. Water-Resources Investigations Report 02-4066. U.S. Geological Survey. Troy, New York. 

Caine, N. 2002. Declining ice thickness on an alpine lake is generated by increased winter precipitation. Climatic Change v. 54 pp. 463-470. 

Diggle, P.K.; Meixner, M.A.; Carroll, A.B.; Aschwanden, C.F. 2002. Barriers to sexual reproduction in Polygonum viviparum: a comparative developmental analysis of P. viviparum and P. bistortoides. Annals of Botany 89:145-156. 

Ebersole, J.J. 2002 . Recovery of alpine vegetation on small, denuded plots, Niwot Ridge, Colorado, U.S.A. Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research. v. 34 no. 4 pp. 389-397. 

Fourment, T.; Emerling, D (illus). 2002. My Water Comes from the Mountains. Roberts Rinehart Publishers,Rowman and Littlefield Publishing Group. 

Greenland, D. 2002. Climate variability and ecosystem response at Long-Term Ecological Research sites. Proceedings of the 15th Conference on Biometeorology and Aerobiology joint with the 16th International Conference on Biometeorology. 27 October - 1 November, 2002. Kansas City MO. American Meteorological Society, Boston, MA. pp. 317-318. 

Greenland, D.; Kittel, T.G.F. 2002. Temporal variability of climate at the US Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) sites. Climate Research v. 19 pp. 213-231. 

Hood, R.W.; Williams, M.W.; Caine, N. 2002. Yields of dissolved organic C, N, and P, from three high-elevation catchments, colorado front range, U.S.A.. Water, Air, and Soil Pollution: Focus v. 2 pp. 165-180. 

Kolesar, S.E.; McKnight, D.M.; Waters, S.B. 2002. Late fall phytoplankton dynamics in three lakes, Rocky Mountain National Park. Hydrobiologia v. 472 pp. 249-263. 

Ley, R.E. ; Schmidt, S.K. 2002. Fungal and bacterial responses to phenolic compounds and amino acids in high altitude barren soils.. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 34: 989-996. 

Lipson, D.A.; Schadt, C.W.; Schmidt, S.K. 2002. Changes in Soil Microbial Community Structure and Function in an Alpine Dry Meadow Following Spring Snow Melt. Microbial Ecology (http://link.springer.de/link/service/journals/00248/contents/01/1057/paper/body.html). 

Litaor, M.I.; Seastedt, T.R.; Walker, D.A. 2002. Spatial analysis of selected soil attributes across an alpine topographic/snow gradient. Landscape Ecology 17:71-85. 

Liu, F.; Williams, M.W.; Ackerman, T.M. 2002. Application of XTOP_PRMS Model in Green Lakes Valley, Colorado Front Range: Runoff Simulation and Flowpath Identification. 2002 Western Snow Conference Proceedings. 

Miller, A.E.; Bowman, W.D. 2002. Variation in 15N natural abundance and nitrogen uptake traits among co-occurring alpine species: do species partition by nitrogen form?. Oecologia v. 130 pp. 609-616. 

Monson, R.K.; Turnipseed, A.A.; Sparks, J.P.; Harley, P.C.; Scott-Denton, L.E.; Sparks, K.; Huxman, T.E. 2002. Carbon sequestration in a high-elevation, subalpine forest. Global Change Biology 8(5):459-478. 

Neff, J.C.; Townsend, A.R.; Gleixner, G.; Lehman, S.J.; Turnball, J. ; Bowman, W.D. 2002. Variable Effects of Nitrogen Additions on the Stability and Turnover of Soil Carbon. Nature v. 419 no. 6910 pp. 915-917. 

Pepin, N.; Losleben, M.V. 2002. Climate change in the Colorado Rocky Mountains: Free air versus temperature trends. International Journal of Climatology, v.22, pp 311-329. 

Pielke, R.A.; Stohlgren, T.; Schell, L. ; Parton, W.; Doesken, N.; Redmond, K. ; Moeny, J. ; McKee, T. ; Kittel, T.G.F. 2002. Problems in evaluating regional and local trends in temperature: An example from eastern Colorado, USA. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY vol. 22 no. 4 pp. 421-434. 

Seastedt, T.R. 2002. Base camps of the Rockies: The Intermountain Grasslands. In: Baron, J.S., D. Fagre, and R. Hauer (eds.) Rocky Mountain Futures: an Ecological Perspective. Island Press. 

Taylor, S.; Feng, X.; Williams, M.W.; McNamara, J. 2002. How isotopic fractionation of snowmelt affects hydrograph separation. Hydrologic Processes v. 16 pp. 3683-3690. 

Toetz, D.W.; Mihuc, T.B. 2002. Effects of ultraviolet radiation on algae and chironomids in a subalpine stream, Colorado Front Range. Verh. Internat. Verein. Limnol v. 28 pp. 1095-1100. 

West, A.E.; Schmidt, S.K. 2002. Endogenous methanogenesis stimulates oxidation of atmospheric CH4 in alpine tundra soil. Microbial Ecology 43:408-415. 

Williams, M.W. ; Knoll, M. 2002. Measuring material properties of a wet and draining snowpack using crosshole radar tomography. Proceedings of the 70th Western Snow Conference, pp 49-57, Granby, Colorado, 2002.

 Winstral, A; Elder, K.; Davis, R.E. 2002. Spatial Snow Modeling of Wind-Redistributed Snow Using Terrain-Based Parameters. Journal of Hydrometeorology v. 3 pp. 524-538.

2001

Armstrong, D.M. ; Halfpenny, J.C.; Southwick, C.H. 2001. Vertebrates. In: Bowman, W.D. and T.R. Seastedt. (eds.) Structure and function of analpine ecosystem. Oxford University Press.

Bowman, W.D.; Bilbrough, C.J. 2001. Influence of a pulsed nitrogen supply on growth and nitrogen uptake in alpine graminoids. Plant and Soil 233: 283-290.

Bowman, W.D.; Fisk, M.C. 2001. Primary Production. In: Bowman, W.D. and T.R. Seastedt (eds). Structure and function of an alpine ecosytem: Niwot Ridge, Colorado. Oxford University Press.

Bowman, W.D; T.R. Seastedt 2001. Structure and function of an alpine ecosystem: Niwot Ridge, Colorado. Oxford University Press .

Bowman. W.D. 2001. Introduction: Historical perspective and significance of alpine ecosystem studies. In: Bowman, W.D. and T.R. Seastedt (eds).  Structure and function of an alpine ecosystem: Niwot Ridge, Colorado. Oxford University Press.

Bugmann, H. 2001. A comparative analysis of forest dynamics in the Swiss Alps and the Colorado Front Range. Forest Ecology and Management 145: 43-55.

Caine, N. 2001. Geomorphic systems of Green Lakes Valley. Chapter 4 In: Bowman, W.D. and T.R. Seastedt. (eds.) Structure and function of an alpine ecosystem. Oxford University Press.

Dearing, D. 2001. Plant-herbivore interactions. Chapter 14 In: Bowman, W.D. and T.R. Seastedt. (eds.) Structure and function of an alpine ecosystem. Oxford University Press.

Elias, S.A. 2001. Paleoecology and late quaternary environments of the Colorado Rockies. Chapter 15 In: Bowman, W.D. and T.R. Seastedt. (eds.)  Structure and function of an alpine ecosystem. Oxford University Press.

Fisk, M.C.; Brooks, P.D.; Schmidt, S.K. 2001. Nitrogen cycling in an alpine ecosystem. In: Alpine Dynamics: The structure and function of an alpine ecosystem. W. Bowman and T.R. Seastedt. (eds.) Oxford University Press.

Forbis, TA and PK Diggle.  2001.  Subnivean embryo development in the alpine herb Caltha leptosepala (Ranunculaceae).  Canadian Journal of Botany.  79: 635-642

Gonzalez, G.; Ley, R.E.; Schmidt, S.K.; Zou, X.; Seastedt, T.R. 2001. Soil ecological interactions: comparisons between tropical and subalpine forests.  Oecologia 128: 549-556.

Gonzalez, G.; Seastedt, T.R. 2001. Soil fauna and plant litter decomposition in tropical and subalpine forests. Ecology 82: 955-964.

Greenland, D.; Losleben, M.V. 2001. Climate. Chapter 2 In: Bowman, W.D. and T.R. Seastedt. (eds.) Structure and function of an alpine ecosystem. Oxford University Press.

Korb, J.E.; Ranker, T.A. 2001. Changes in stand composition and structure between 1981 and 1996 in four Front Range plant communities in Colorado. Plant Ecology. 157: 1-11.

Ley, R.E.; Lipson, D.A.; Schmidt, S.K. 2001. Microbial biomass levels in barren and vegetated high altitude talus soils. Soil Science Society of America Journal 65:111-117..

Lipson, D.A.; Raab, T.K.; Schmidt, S.K. 2001. An empirical model of amino acid transformation in an alpine soils . Soil Biology & Biochemistry 33:189-198..

Mast MA, Turk JT, Ingersoll GP, Clow DW, Kester CL.  2001.  Use of stable sulfur isotopes to identify sources of sulfate in Rocky Mountain snowpacks.  Atmospheric Environment 35: 3303-3313

Meloche CG and Diggle PK.  2001.  Preformation, architectural complexity, and developmental flexibility in Acomastylis rossii (Rosaceae).  American Journal of Botany 88: 980-991

Monson, R.K.; Mullen, R.B.; Bowman, W.D. 2001. Plant nutrient relations. In: Bowman, W.D. and T.R. Seastedt (eds). Structure and function of an alpine ecosystem: Niwot Ridge, Colorado. Oxford University Press.

Rattray, G.; Sievering, H. 2001. Dry deposition of ammonia, nitric acid, and nitrate to alpine tundra at Niwot Ridge, CO. Atmospheric Environment 35:1085-1109..

Schmidt, S.K.; West A.E.; Brooks, P.D.; Smith, L.K.; Jaeger, C.H.; Fisk, M.C.; Holland, E.A. 2001. Soil-atmosphere gas exchange. Chapter 13 In: Bowman, W.D. and T.R. Seastedt. (eds.) Structure and function of an alpine ecosystem. Oxford University Press.

Seastedt, T.R. 2001. Soils. in: Bowman, W.D. and T.R. Seastedt (eds.) Structure and function of an alpine ecosystem: Niwot Ridge, Colorado. Oxford Press.

Seastedt, T.R.; Adams, G.A. 2001. Effects of moblie tree islands on alpine tundra soils . Ecology 82:8-15.

Seastedt, T.R.; Vaccaro, L. 2001. Plant Species Richness, Productivity, and Nitrogen and Phosphorus Limitations across a Snowpack Gradient in Alpine Tundra, Colorado, U.S.A . Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research. 33(1): 100-106.

Seastedt, T.R.; Walker, M.D.; Bryant, D.M. 2001. Controls on decomposition processes in alpine tundra. Chapter 11 In: Bowman, W.D. and T.R. Seastedt. (eds.) Structure and function of an alpine ecosystem. Oxford University Press.

Sherrod, S.K.; Seastedt, T.R. 2001. Effects of the northern pocket gopher (Thomomys talpoides) on alpine soil characteristics, Niwot Ridge, CO. Biogeochemistry vol. 55 (2). pp.195-218.

Sievering, H. 2001. Atmospheric chemistry and deposition. In: Bowman, W.D. and T.R. Seastedt. (eds.) Structure and function of an alpine ecosystem. Oxford University Press.

Sievering, H.; Kelly, T.; McConville, G.; Seibold, C.; Turnipseed, A. 2001. Nitric acid dry deposition to conifer forests: Niwot Ridge spruce-fir-pine study. Atmospheric Environment vol.35. pp.3851-3859.

Turk JT, Taylor HE, Ingersoll GP, Tonnessen KA, Clow DW, Mast MA, Campbell DH, Melack JM.  2001.  Major-ion chemistry of the Rocky Mountain snowpack, USA.  Atmospheric Enivronment 35: 3957-3966

Walker, D.A.; Molenaar, J.G.; Billings, W.D. 2001. Snow-vegetation interactions in tundra environments. In: Jones, H.G., J. Pomeroy, D.A. Walker, and R. Wharton (eds.). Snow Ecology: An interdisciplinary examination of snow-covered ecosystems. Cambridge University Press..

Walker, M.D.; Walker, D.A.; Theodose, T.A.; Webber, P.J. 2001. The vegetation: hierarchical species-environment relationships. Chapter 6 In: Bowman, W.D. and T.R. Seastedt. (eds.) Structure and function of an alpine ecosystem. Oxford University Press.

Welker, J.M.; Bowman, W.D.; Seastedt, T.R. 2001. Environmental change and future directions in alpine research. Chapter 16 In: Bowman, W.D. and T.R. Seastedt. (eds.) Structure and function of an alpine ecosystem. Oxford University Press.

Williams, M.W.; Caine, N. 2001. Hydrology and hydrochemistry in alpine dynamics. . In: The structure and function of an alpine ecosystem: Niwot Ridge, Colorado. Bowman, W. and T.R. Seastedt (eds.). Oxford University Press.

Williams, M.W.; Hood, E.; Caine, N. 2001. Role of organic nitrogen in the nitrogen cycle of a high-elevation catchment, Colorado Front Range. Water Resources Research vol. 37 (10). pp.2569-2581.

2000

Baron, J.S.; Caine, N. 2000. Temporal coherence of two alpine lake basins of the Colorado Front Range, U.S.A. Freshwater Biology 43:463-476.

Baron JS, Rueth HM, Wolfe AM, Nydick KR, Allstott EJ, Minear JT, Moraska B.  2000.  Ecosystem responses to nitrogen deposition in the Colorado Front Range.  Ecosystems 3: 352-368.

Bilbrough, C.J. ; Welker, J.M. ; Bowman, W.D. 2000. Early spring nitrogen uptake by snow-covered plants: a comparison of arctic and alpine plant function under the snowpack. Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research 32(4):404-411.

Bingham RA, Ranker TA.  2000.  Genetic diversify in alpine and foothill populations of Campanula rotundifolia (Campanulaceae).  International Journal of Plant Sciences 161: 403-411

Bowman, W.D. 2000. Biotic controls over ecosystem response to environmental change in alpine tundra of the Rocky Mountains . Ambio 29: 396-400.

Conley, A.H.; Holland, E.A.; Seastedt, T.R.; Parton, W.J. 2000. Simulation of carbon and nitrogen cycling in an alpine tundra. Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research. 32: 147-154.

Gonzalez, G.; Seastedt, T.R 2000. Comparison of the abundance and composition of soil fauna in tropical and subalpine forests. Pedobiologia 44: 545-555..

Gough, L.; Osenberg C.W.; Gross, K.L.; Collins, S.L. 2000. Fertilization effects on species density and primary productivity in herbaceous plant communities across latitudinal gradient. Oikos. 89: 428-439

Gross, K.L.; Willig, M.R.; Gough, L.; Inouye R.; Cox, S.B. 2000. Patterns of species density and productivity at different spatial scales in herbaceous communitites. Oikos 89: 417-427.

Heuer K, Tonnessen KA, Ingersoll GP.  2000.  Comparison of precipitation chemistry in the Central Rocky Mountains, Colorado, USA.  Atmospheric Environment 34: 1713-1722

Juenger, T; Bergelson, J.  2000.  The evolution of compensation to herbivory in scarlet gilia, Ipomopsis aggregata: Herbivore-imposed natural selection and the quantitative genetics of tolerance.  Evolution 54: 764-777

Juenger, T; Bergelson, J.  2000.  Factors limiting rosette recruitment in scarlet gilia, Ipomopsis aggregata: seed and disturbance limitation.  Oecologia 123: 358-363

Juenger, T; Bergelson, J.  2000.  Does early season browsing influence the effect of self-pollination in scarlet gilia?  Ecology 81: 41-48

Lipson, D.A.; Schmidt, S.K.; Monson, R.K. 2000. Carbon availability and temperature control the post-snowmelt decline in alpine soil microbial biomass. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 32:441-448.

Losleben, M.V. 2000. Snowpack, ENSO, and atmospheric cirulation on the Colorado Front Range. In Proceedings of the 16th Annual Pacific Climate Workshop, Technical Report 65 of the Interagency Ecological Program for Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.

Losleben, M.V.; Pepin, N.; Pedrick, S. 2000. Relationships of precipitation chemistry, atmospheric circulation, and elevation at two sites on the Colorado Front Range. Atmospheric Environment 34:1723-1737.

Meixner, T.; Bales, R.C.; Williams, M.W.; Campbell, D.H.; Baron, J.S. 2000. Stream chemistry modeling of two watersheds in the Front Range, Colorado.  Water Resourse Research 36:77-88.

Schmidt, S.K.; Lipson, D.A.; Raab, T.K. 2000. Effects of willow (Salix brachycarpa) on populations of salicylate-mineralizing microorganismsin alpine soils. J. Chem. Ecol. 26: 2049-2057.

Seastedt, T.R. 2000. Soil fauna and controls of carbon dynamics: Comparisons of rangelands and forests across latitudinal gradients. Pages 293-312 In: D.C. Coleman and P. Hendrix (eds.). Invertebrates as Webmasters in Ecosystems. CABI Publ., Wallington, UK..

Toetz, D. 2000. Decomposition in an alpine wetland brook, Colorado Front Range. Verh. Internat. Verein. Limnol. 27: 748-751.

Williams, M.W. ; Rikkers, M.R.; Pfeffer, W.T. 2000. Ice columns and frozen rills in a warm snowpack, Green Lakes Valley, Colrado, USA . Nordic Hydrology 31(3): 169-186. .

Williams, M.W.; Tonnessen, K.A. 2000. Critical loads for inorganic nitrogen deposition in the Colorado Front Range,USA. Ecological Aplications 10(6):1648-1665.

1999

Addington, R.N.; Seastedt, T.R. 1999. Activity of soil microarthropods beneath snowpack in alpine tundra and subalpine forest. Pedobiologia 43:47-53.

Arft, A.M.; Walker, M.D.; Gurevitch, J.; Alatalo, J.M.; Bret-Harte, M.S.; Dale, M.; Diemer, M.; Gugerli, F.; Henry, G.H.R.; Jones, M.H.; Hollister, R.D.; Jonsdottir, I.S.; Laine, K.; Levesque, E.; Marion, G.M.; Molau, U.; Molgaard, P.; Nordenhall, U.; Raszhivin, V.; Robinson, C.H.; Starr, G.; Stenstrom, A.; Stenstrom, M.; Totland, O.; Turner, P.L.; Walker, L.J.; Webber, P.J.; Welker, J.M.; Wookey, P.A. 1999. Responses of tundra plants to experimental warming: Meta-analysis of the international tundra experiment. Ecological Monographs 69:491-511.

Bowman, W.D.; Keller, A.; Nelson, M. 1999. Altitudinal variation in leaf gas exchange, nitrogen and phosphorus concentrations and leaf mass per area in populations of Frasera speciosa. Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research 31:191-195.

Brooks, P.D.; McKnight, D.M.; Bencala, K.E. 1999. The relationship between soil heterotrophic activity, soil dissolved organic carbon (DOC) leachate, and cachment-scale DOC export in headwater catchments. Water Resources Research. 35:1895-1902.

Brooks, P.D.; Williams, M.W. 1999. Snowpack controls on nitrogen cycling and export in seasonally snow-covered catchments. Hydrological Processes 13:2177-2190.

Fox, A.M. 1999. Equivalent permeability of continental, alpine snowpack. M.S. Thesis. University of Colorado, Boulder. 116 pp..

Greenland, D. 1999. ENSO-related phenomena at long-term ecological reasearch sites. Physical Geography 20:491-507..

Hood, E.; Williams, M.; Cline, D. 1999. Sublimation from a seasonal snowpack at a continental, mid-latitude alpine site. Hydrological Processes 13:1781-1797.

Jaeger, C.H.; Monson, R.K.; Fisk, M.; Schmidt, S. 1999. Seasonal partitioning of nitrogen by plants and soil microorganisms in an alpine ecosystem.  Ecology 80(6): 1883-1891..

Lipson, D.A.; Raab, T.K.; Schmidt, S.K.; Monson, R.K. 1999. Variation in competitive abilities of plants and microbes for specific amino acids. Biology and Fertility of Soils 29:257-261..

Lipson, D.A.; Schadt, C.W.; Schmidt, S.K.; Monson, R.K. 1999. Ectomycorrhizal transfer of amino acid-nitrogen to the alpine sedge Kobresia myosuroides. New Phytologist 142:163-167.

Lipson, D.A.; Schmidt, S.K.; Monson, R.K. 1999. Links between microbial population dynamics and nitrogen availability in an alpine ecosystem. Ecology 80:1623-1631.

Parker, E.R.; Sanford, R.L. 1999. The effect of mobile tree islands on soil phosphorus concentrations and distribution in an alpine ecosystem. Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research. 31:16-20.

Raab, T.K.; Lipson, D.A.; Monson, R.K. 1999. Soil amino acid utilization among species of the Cyperaceae: plant and soil processes. Ecology 80:2408-2419.

Reich, P.B.; Ellsworth, D.S.; Walters, M.B.; Vose, J.M.; Gresham, C.; Volin, J.C.; Bowman, W.D. 1999. Generality of leaf traits: a test across six biomes. Ecology 80: 1955-1969.

Sievering, H. 1999. Nitrogen deposition and carbon sequestration. Nature 400:629.

Soranno, P.A. ;Webster, K.E.; Riera, J.L.; Kratz, T.K.; Baron, J.S.; Bukaveckas, P.A.; Kling, G.W.; White, D.S.; Caine, N.; Lathrop, R.C.; Leavitt, P.R. 1999.  Spatial variation among lakes within landscapes: Ecological organization along lake chains. Ecosystems 2:395-410.

Toetz. D.W. 1999. Multiple limiting nutrients in a subalpine stream, Colorado Front Range. Journal of Freshwater Ecology 14:349-355.

Walker, M.D.; Walker, D.A.; Welker, J.M.; Arft, A.M.; Bardsley, T.; Brooks, P.D.; Fahnestock, J.T.; Jones, M.H.; Losleben, M.; Parsons, A.N.; Seastedt, T.R.; Turner, P.L. 1999. Long-term experimental manipulation of winter snow regime and summer temperature in arctic and alpine tundra. Hydrological Processes 13:2315-2330.

Welker, J.M.; Brown, K.A.; Fahnestock, J.T. 1999. CO2 flux in arctic and alpine dry tundra: comparative field responses under ambient and experimentally warmed conditions. Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research 31:308-313.

West, A.E.; Brooks, P.D.; Fisk, M.C.; Smith, L.K.; Holland, C.H.; Jaeger, C.H.; Babcock, S.; Lai, R.S.; Schmidt, S.K. 1999. Landscape patterns of CH4 fluxes in an alpine tundra ecosystem. Biogeochemistry 45:243-264.

West, A.E.; Schmidt, S.K. 1999. Acetate stimulates atmospheric CH4 oxidation by an alpine tundra soil . Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 31: 1649-1655

Williams, M.W.; Cline, D.; Hartman, M.A.; Bardsley, T. 1999. Data for snowmelt model development, calibration, and verfication at an alpine site, Colorado Front Range. Water Resources Research 35:3205-3209.

Williams, M.W.; Sommerfeld, R.; Massman, S.; Rikkers, M. 1999. Correlation lengths of meltwater flow through ripe snowpacks, Colorado Front Range, USA. Hydrological Processes 13:1807-1826.

1998

Bieber A.J.; Williams M.W.; Johnsson M.J.; Davinroy T.C. 1998. Nitrogen transformations in alpine talus fields, Green Lakes Valley, Front Range, Colorado, U.S.A. Arctic and Alpine Research 30:266-271.

Bingham RA, Ort AR.  1998.  Efficient pollination of alpine plants.  Nature 391: 238-239

Bowman, W.D.; Steltzer, H. 1998. Positive feedbacks to anthropogenic nitrogen deposition in Rocky Mountain alpine tundra. Ambio 27:514-517.

Brooks, P.D.; Williams, M.W.; Schmidt, S.K. 1998. Inorganic nitrogen and microbial biomass dynamics before and during spring snowmelt. Biogeochemistry 43:1-15.

Bryant, D.M.; Holland, E.A.; Seastedt, T.R.; Walker, M.D. 1998. Analysis of litter decomposition in an alpine tundra. Canadian Journal of Botany 76:1295-1304.

Diggle, P.K.; Lower, S.S.; Ranker. T.A. 1998. Clonal diversity in alpine populations of Plygonum viviparum. International Journal of Plant Sciences 159:606-615.

Fisk, M.C; Schmidt, S.K.; Seastedt, T.R. 1998. Topographic patterns of above- and belowground production and nitrogen cycling in alpine tundra. Ecology 79:2253-2266.

Furbish DJ, Thorne SD, Byrd TC, Warburton J, Cudney JJ, Handel RW.  1998.  Irregular bed forms in steep, rough channels - 2. Field observations.  Water Resources Research 34: 3649-3659

Juenger, T; Bergelson, J.  1998.  Pairwise versus diffuse natural selection and the multiple herbivores of scarlet gilia, Ipomopsis aggregata.  Evolution 52: 1583-1592

Lipson D.A.; Monson R.K. 1998. Plant-microbe competition for soil amino acids in the alpine tundra: effects of freeze-thaw and dry-rewet events. Oecologia 113:406-414.

Mullen, R.B.; Schmidt, S.K.; Jaeger, C.H. 1998. Nitrogen uptake during snowmelt by the snow buttercup, Rannunculus adoneus.. Arctic and Alpine Research 30:121-125.

Reich P.B.; Walters M.B.; Ellsworth D.S.; Vose J.M.; Volin J.C.; Gresham C.; Bowman W.D. 1998. Relationships of leaf dark respiration to leaf nitrogen, specific leaf area and leaf life-span: a test across biomes and functional groups. Oecologia 114:471-482.

Steltzer, H.; Bowman, W.D. 1998. Differential influence of plant species on soil nitrogen transformations within moist meadow alpine tundra. Ecosystems 1:464-474.

Thomas B.D.; Bowman W.D. 1998. Influence of N2-fixing Trifolium on plant species composition and biomass production in alpine tundra. Oecologia 115:26-31.

West, A.E.; Schmidt, S.K. 1998. Wetting stimulates atmospheric CH4 oxidation by alpine soil. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 25:349-353.

Williams M.W.; Bardsley T.; Rikkers M. 1998. Overestimation of snow depth and inorganic nitrogen wetfall using NADP data, Niwot Ridge, Colorado. Atmospheric Environment 32(22):3827-3833.

Williams M.W.; Brooks P.D.; Seastedt T.S. 1998. Nitrogen and carbon soil dynamics in response to climate change in a high-elevation ecosystem in the Rocky Mountains, U.S.A. Arctic and Alpine Research 30:26-30.

1997

Aydelotte, A.R.; Diggle, P.K. 1997. Analysis of developmental preformation in the alpine herb Caltha leptosepala (Ranunculacaea). . American Jounal of Botany 84: 1646-1657.

Brooks, P.D; Schmidt, S.K.; Williams, M.W. 1997. Winter production of CO2 and N2O from alpine tundra: environmental controls and relationship to inter-system C and N fluxes. Oecologia 110: 403-413.

Cline D.W. 1997. Effect of seasonality of snow accumulation and melt on snow surface energy exchanges at a continental alpine site.. Journal of Applied Meteorology. 36 (1):22-41..

Cline D.W. 1997. Snow surface energy exchanges and snowmelt at a continental, midlatitude Alpine site. . Water Resources Research. 33 (4):689-701..

Dearing, M.D. 1997. The manipulation of plant toxins by a food-hoarding herbivore, Ochotona princeps.. Ecology 78: 774-781.

Diggle, P.K. 1997. Extreme preformation in alpine Polygonum viviparum: An architectural and developmental analysis.. American Journal of Botany. 84:154-169..

Harris NRP, Ancellet G, Bishop L, Hofmann DJ, Kerr JB, McPeters RD, Prendez M, Randel WJ, Staehelin J, Subbaraya BH, VolzThomas A, Zawodny J, Zerefos CS.  1997.  Trends in stratospheric and free tropospheric ozone.  JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-ATMOSPHERES 102 (D1): 1571

Ingersoll, R.C.; Seastedt, T.R.; Hartman, M.A. 1997. A model information management system for ecological research. BioScience 47(5):310-316.

Juenger, T; Bergelson, J.  1997.  Pollen and resource limitation of compensation to herbivory in scarlet gilia, Ipomopsis aggregata.  Ecology 78: 1684-1695

Theodose, T.A.; Bowman, W.D. 1997. Nutrient availability, plant abundance, and species diversity in two alpine tundra communities. . Ecology 78: 1861-1872.

Theodose, T.A.; Bowman, W.D. 1997. The influence of interspecific competition on the distribution of an alpine graminoid: evidence for the importance of plant competition in an extreme environment.. Oikos. 79:101-114..

Welker, J.M.; Molau, U.; Parsons, A.N.; Robinson, C.; Wookey, P.A. 1997. Responses of Dryas Octopetala to ITEX environmental manipulations: a synthesis with circumpolar comparisons.. Global Change Biology 3: 61-73.

Williams, M.W.; Davinroy, T.; Brooks, P.D. 1997. Organic and inorganic nitrogen pools in talus fields and subtalus water, Green Lakes Valley, Colorado Front Range.. Hydrological Processes 11: 1747-1760.