SUMMARY
A slide show about the effects of frost on Colorado wildflowers at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory. Late spring frost damage has become more common in recent years, a consequence of earlier snowmelt. From research at RMBL by David Inouye and Carol Boggs.
GOALS
Slides include pictures of the study site and study species, and graphs documenting the effects of late spring frost on wildflowers and a butterfly species.
ACTIVITY DESCRIPTION AND TEACHING MATERIALS
See this Powerpoint slide show on the EcoEd Digital Library: www.ecoed.esa.org
TEACHING NOTES / CONTEXT FOR USE
This slide show could be used to get students to think about unexpected consequences of climate change. For example, the fact that global warming could result in increased frost damage to plants (both wildflowers and some crops). Parts of all of it could be used.
ASSESSMENT
Ask students what major points they learned from the slide show.
REFERENCES AND RESOURCES
Inouye, D. W. (2007). "Impacts of global warming on pollinators." Wings 30(2): 24-27. Inouye, D. W. (2008). "Effects of climate change on phenology, frost damage, and floral abundance of montane wildflowers." Ecology 89(2): 353-362. Forrest, J., D. W. Inouye, and J. D. Thomson. 2010. Flowering phenology in subalpine communities: Does climate variation reshuffle species assemblages? Ecology 91(2):431-440. Lambert, A., A. J. Miller-Rushing, and D. W. Inouye. 2010. Changes in snowmelt date and summer precipitation affect the flowering phenology of Erythronium grandiflorum Pursh (glacier lily, Liliaceae). American Journal of Botany 97(9): 1431–1437. Miller-Rushing, A. J., Toke T. Høye, D. W. Inouye, and E. Post. 2010. The effects of phenological mismatch on demography. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 365: 3177-3186.
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The Author
David Inouye is a Professor in the Department of Biology at the University of Maryland (College Park), and has done research each summer since 1971 at the high-altitude Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory in Colorado. His research focuses on long-term studies of wildflowers, including their flowering phenology, pollination, and demography. ... (Full Bio)
SUMMARY
A slide show about the effects of frost on Colorado wildflowers at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory. Late spring frost damage has become more common in recent years, a consequence of earlier snowmelt. From research at RMBL by David Inouye and Carol Boggs.
GOALS
Slides include pictures of the study site and study species, and graphs documenting the effects of late spring frost on wildflowers and a butterfly species.
ACTIVITY DESCRIPTION AND TEACHING MATERIALS
See this Powerpoint slide show on the EcoEd Digital Library: www.ecoed.esa.org
TEACHING NOTES / CONTEXT FOR USE
This slide show could be used to get students to think about unexpected consequences of climate change. For example, the fact that global warming could result in increased frost damage to plants (both wildflowers and some crops). Parts of all of it could be used.
ASSESSMENT
Ask students what major points they learned from the slide show.
REFERENCES AND RESOURCES
Inouye, D. W. (2007). "Impacts of global warming on pollinators." Wings 30(2): 24-27. Inouye, D. W. (2008). "Effects of climate change on phenology, frost damage, and floral abundance of montane wildflowers." Ecology 89(2): 353-362. Forrest, J., D. W. Inouye, and J. D. Thomson. 2010. Flowering phenology in subalpine communities: Does climate variation reshuffle species assemblages? Ecology 91(2):431-440. Lambert, A., A. J. Miller-Rushing, and D. W. Inouye. 2010. Changes in snowmelt date and summer precipitation affect the flowering phenology of Erythronium grandiflorum Pursh (glacier lily, Liliaceae). American Journal of Botany 97(9): 1431–1437. Miller-Rushing, A. J., Toke T. Høye, D. W. Inouye, and E. Post. 2010. The effects of phenological mismatch on demography. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 365: 3177-3186.
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