LTREB: Abundance and Phenology of Rocky Mountain Flowering Plants and Their Pollinators

9408382 Inouye近年来，长期生物数据集的价值日益得到承认，因为它们可以提供关于种群生物学动态、异常事件的频率、气候变化的后果以及物种之间相互作用的性质的见解。尽管承认了这一点，但可供分析的长期数据集的数量仍然很少。这种缺乏的一个原因是，这种数据集的生成通常涉及长期监测，这可能会被显示(特别是以每年1个数据的速度)，以在检验假设、设计操纵性实验或制作出版物之前生成必要的数据。该项目将扩大对科罗拉多州落基山脉草本植物生态的几个方面的数据收集，包括开花的丰度和物候以及昆虫传粉者的丰度和季节性。这项研究将包括大约100种植物。该项目建立在1973年落基山生物实验室开始的持续努力的基础上，已经提供了可用时间最长的开花数据集之一。现有数据集的数据已列入最近的三份出版物。这些数据将可供大量活跃的研究人员访问和感兴趣。

9408382 Inouye The value of long-term biological data sets has been increasingly recognized in recent years, for the insights that they can provide on the dynamics of population biology, the frequency of unusual events, the consequences of climate change, and the nature of interactions among species. Despite this recognition that number of long-term data sets available for analysis is still quite small. One reason for this paucity is that generation of such data sets typically involves long-term monitoring, which may be show (especially at the rate of 1 datum/yr) to generate data necessary before hypotheses can be tested, manipulative experiments designed, or publications produced. This project will extend collection of data on several aspects of the ecology of herbaceous plants in the Colorado Rocky Mountains, including the abundance and phenology of flowering and the abundance and seasonality of insect pollinators. Approximately 100 species of plants will be included in this study. This project builds on a continuing endeavor that began in 1973 at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, and already provides one of the longest available data sets on flowering. Data from the existing data set have been included in three recent publications. The data will be accessible and of interest to a large number of active researchers.