Spring is coming a week earlier to European forests
Botanists found evidence for the effects of climate change stored in herbaria.
Tag: phenology
Changing seasons change tree growth, changing carbon sequestration by forests
An earlier spring changes the growing conditions for trees, and not always for the better.
Building a better grapevine model
A new perennial fruit crop accurately depicts phenology, light interception, carbohydrate allocation and reserve dynamics, and yield components.
Plants can become less uniform by duplicating their genome
Though the experiment was limited to two genotypes of a single species, these findings support the idea that whole genome duplication can indeed increase plasticity.
Do Thoreau’s observations and herbarium records see the same changes in fruiting?
Thoreau’s last manuscript could help understand the future climate of New England.
Advancing flowering is altering the dates of some cultural events
Concern that flowers are blooming earlier is about more than wish to return to the good old days.
Climate change will scramble the biological clock of the forest floor
Plants react to a combination of changes in temperature and water availability in different ways.
Flowering time likely an important driver of speciation in South African Restionaceae
Allochrony is one of few ways for wind-pollinated species to achieve reproductive isolation.
A new assessment of Madagascar’s Coffea species shows which traits reflect phylogenetic signal
Flowering phenology appears to have a strong genetic component, and may serve as a barrier to hybridization
Greater floral overlap and pollinator generalization favoured in a buzz-pollinated plant
Simultaneous flowering and low pollinator specialization led to greater reproductive success.
Training and high quality images needed for best online annotation of digital specimens
Volunteers produced the most accurate annotations in-person, but both in-person and online volunteers gave good results.
Climate Change Spells Bad News for Bambi
Optimum vegetation for the roe deer reproductive season is coming earlier in the year, but the birth dates lagging, leaving less forage for deer at a critical time.
Corner’s rules hold up across the growing season
The relationship between twig cross-sectional area and leaf surface area varied little over the course of the season.
What makes a good invasive species – genetics or plasticity? Insights from Impatiens glandulifera
Understanding what makes invasive plant species so good at invading may help us protect vulnerable plant biodiversity.