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Substantial increase of heat requirement for maturity of early rice due to extension of reproductive rather vegetative growth period in China
Climate change has affected crop phenology, leading to changes in agriculture productivity. Previous studies usually take phenology and agriculture as two parallel aspects that climate change would exert influ...
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Evidence of advancing spring xylem phenology in Chinese forests under global warming
Phenological responses of vegetation to the ongoing warming trend impact current and future primary productivity. However, few studies focus on wood phenology because its observed data are much scarcer, which ...
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Open AccessHigh-latitude vegetation changes will determine future plant volatile impacts on atmospheric organic aerosols
Strong, ongoing high-latitude warming is causing changes to vegetation composition and plant productivity, modifying plant emissions of biogenic volatile organic compounds (BVOCs). In the sparsely populated hi...
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Climate warming shifts the time interval between flowering and leaf unfolding depending on the warming period
The timing of flowering (FL) and leaf unfolding (LU) determine plants’ reproduction and vegetative growth. Global warming has substantially advanced FL and LU of temperate and boreal plants, but their response...
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Increased drought effects on the phenology of autumn leaf senescence
Global warming delays the autumn date of foliar senescence (DFS) in recent decades, with positive implications for growing season length and therefore global carbon storage. However, warming-associated drought...
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An earlier start of the thermal growing season enhances tree growth in cold humid areas but not in dry areas
Climatic warming alters the onset, duration and cessation of the vegetative season. While previous studies have shown a tight link between thermal conditions and leaf phenology, less is known about the impacts...
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Open AccessIncreasing terrestrial ecosystem carbon release in response to autumn cooling and warming
Part of the Northern Hemisphere has experienced widespread autumn cooling during the most recent decades despite overall warming, but how this contrasting temperature change has influenced the ecosystem carbon...
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Open AccessSpatial variance of spring phenology in temperate deciduous forests is constrained by background climatic conditions
Leaf unfolding in temperate forests is driven by spring temperature, but little is known about the spatial variance of that temperature dependency. Here we use in situ leaf unfolding observations for eight dec...
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Open AccessDivergent changes in the elevational gradient of vegetation activities over the last 30 years
The reported progressive change of vegetation activity along elevational gradients has important aesthetic and conservation values. With climate change, cooler locations are suggested to warm faster than warme...
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Long-term linear trends mask phenological shifts
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Declining global warming effects on the phenology of spring leaf unfolding
Spring leaf unfolding has been occurring earlier in the year because of rising temperatures; however, long-term evidence in the field from 7 European tree species studied in 1,245 sites shows that this early u...
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Open AccessLeaf onset in the northern hemisphere triggered by daytime temperature
Recent warming significantly advanced leaf onset in the northern hemisphere. This signal cannot be accurately reproduced by current models parameterized by daily mean temperature (Tmean). Here using in situ obser...
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Bayesian calibration of the Unified budburst model in six temperate tree species
Numerous phenology models developed to predict the budburst date of trees have been merged into one Unified model (Chuine, 2000, J. Theor. Biol. 207, 337–347). In this study, we tested a simplified version of ...
