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PowerPoint: Effects of frost on wildflowers: an unexpected consequence of climate change- ESA

David W. Inouye
Initial Publication Date: April 29, 2016

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.


Learning 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.

Also see teaching materials.

Context for Use

See Teaching Notes.

Description and Teaching Materials

See this Powerpoint slide show on the EcoEd Digital Library: http://ecoed.esa.org/

Teaching Notes and Tips

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.

Citation

Inouye, D. (2012). PowerPoint: Effects of frost on wildflowers: an unexpected consequence of climate change- ESA. Retrieved from http://www.camelclimatechange.org/view/presentation/51cbf2897896bb431f6a9c61