Overview
- Comprehensive topics, designed to nurture and serve the dynamic international and interdisciplinary phenological research community
- The Editor is co-founder of the USA National Phenology Network (USA-NPN)
- Includes chapters that outline the history of data collection and network development in each region
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Phenology refers to recurring plant and animal life cycle stages, such as leafing and flowering, maturation of agricultural plants, emergence of insects, and migration of birds. It is also the study of these recurring events, especially their timing and relationships with weather and climate. Phenological phenomena all give a ready measure of the environment as viewed by the associated organism, and are thus ideal indicators of the impact of local and global changes in weather and climate on the earth’s biosphere.
Assessing our changing world is a complex task that requires close cooperation from experts in biology, climatology, ecology, geography, oceanography, remote sensing, and other areas. Like its predecessor, this second edition of Phenology is a synthesis of current phenological knowledge, designed as a primer on the field for global change and general scientists, students, and interested members of the public. With updated and new contributions from over fifty phenological experts, covering data collection, current research, methods, and applications, it demonstrates the accomplishments, progress over the last decade, and future potential of phenology as an integrative environmental science.Similar content being viewed by others
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Table of contents (31 chapters)
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Phenological Data, Networks, and Research
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Phenologies of Selected Bioclimatic Zones
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Phenological Models and Techniques
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Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Phenology: An Integrative Environmental Science
Editors: Mark D. Schwartz
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6925-0
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-6924-3Published: 12 August 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-017-8153-4Published: 09 August 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-6925-0Published: 30 July 2013
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XX, 610
Number of Illustrations: 69 b/w illustrations, 61 illustrations in colour
Topics: Plant Ecology, Climate Change, Atmospheric Sciences, Ecotoxicology, Zoology