Sentences with phrase «as phenology»

It's an intricate dance scientists refer to as phenology.

«As phenology is advancing around the globe, there are concerns that plant - pollinator interactions may be disrupted through phenological mismatches, or mismatches in the timing of when flowers bloom and their pollinators emerge, leading to reduced plant reproduction,» says lead author Zak Gezon, who conducted the research as a doctoral student at Dartmouth and who is now a conservation biologist with Disney's Animal Programs.

Not exact matches

Climate change has many ecological effects, such as altering flowering phenology, or the blooming time of wildflowers, across the world.

«Robert Marsham (1708 - 1797) of Stratton Strawless, Norfolk, is considered to be the founding father of the science of phenology through his painstaking studying over 60 years published as Indications of Spring.

«As we build up a big archive — warm years, cold years, wet years and dry years — we can use the data to develop models of how weather and phenology are related,» he says.

«We want to use phenology as a biological indicator of the impacts of climate change on ecosystems,» Richardson says.

Same as with phenology — we can't say what an individual tree or flower or bird is going to do different as climate changes.

I think these guys do a good job articulating why that may be — as they say, a phenomenon whose phenology is controlled by photo - period ought to exhibit greater stability than other physiological processes.

«Our study clearly showed that European migratory bird species with declining breeding populations in Europe in the last decades (1990 — 2000) responded the least to recent climate change as reflected by the temporal trend in spring migration phenology, or even delayed their timing of spring migration, whereas species with stable or increasing populations advanced migration.»

Projected values, based on CMIP5 model, RCP 8.5 scenario, are as calculated by the author of» Spring plant phenology and false springs in the conterminous U.S. during the 21st century.»

First, they discuss phenology (how nature changes through the seasons) as evidence for changing climate.

Thousands of species are behaving as if climate is changing — temperature, rainfall etc — with responses such as moving to cooler regions at higher latitudes or phenology changes (a friend of mine had a Homer «doh!

Researchers also uncovered shifts in seasonal behavior, or phenology, such as breeding, egg - laying and migration.

It is no surprise therefore that coastal marine species have shown some of the fastest responses to climate change in any system, with species - specific responses to thermal stress causing poleward shifts in biogeographic distributions towards cooler environments, as well as changes in phenology and regime shifts.

This should be cited as Abernethy, R., Garforth, J., Hemming, D., Kendon, M., McCarthy, M. and Sparks, T. (2017): State of the UK Climate 2016 Phenology supplement, Met Office, Exeter, UK.