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- Individuals and organizations have collected long-term records of flowering times for various plant species, which help in understanding changes in seasonal events (phenology) and their relationship with climate change.
- The flowering patterns of temperate plants are influenced by environmental factors like temperature and day length, helping them time their blooming with the right seasonal conditions.
- The text provides an overview of how flowering phenology is recorded, discusses different flowering patterns, and examines how datasets can be interpreted in the context of seasonal and climate changes.
Article Abstract
Individuals, families, networks, and botanic gardens have made records of flowering times of a wide range of plant species over many years. These data can highlight year to year changes in seasonal events (phenology) and those datasets covering long periods draw interest for their perspective on plant responses to climate change. Temperate flowering phenology is complex, using environmental cues such as temperature and photoperiod to attune flowering to appropriate seasonal conditions. Here we give an overview of flowering phenological recording, outline different patterns of flowering, and look at the interpretation of datasets in relation to seasonal and climatic change.
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