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

近年来，长期生物数据集的价值日益得到认可，因为它们可以提供关于种群生物学动态、异常事件频率、气候变化后果和物种间相互作用性质的见解。尽管认识到这一点，可用于分析的长期数据集的数量仍然相当少。这种缺乏的一个原因是，此类数据集的生成通常涉及长期监测，在检验假设、设计操纵性实验或发表出版物之前，可能会显示（特别是以每年1个基准的速度）产生必要的数据。该项目将扩大科罗拉多落基山脉草本植物生态若干方面的数据收集，包括开花的丰度和物候以及昆虫传粉媒介的丰度和季节性。大约100种植物将被纳入这项研究。这个项目建立在1973年在落基山生物实验室开始的持续努力的基础上，并且已经提供了一个关于开花的最长的可用数据集。现有数据集中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并感兴趣。

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.