Phenology: An Integrative Environmental Science

✍ Scribed by Mark D. Schwartz (auth.), Mark D. Schwartz (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 610
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xx
Introduction....Pages 1-5
Front Matter....Pages 7-7
East Asia....Pages 9-22
Australia and New Zealand....Pages 23-52
Europe....Pages 53-65
North America....Pages 67-89
A Review of Plant Phenology in South and Central America....Pages 91-113
Antarctica....Pages 115-135
International Phenological Observation Networks: Concept of IPG and GPM....Pages 137-153
Front Matter....Pages 155-155
Tropical Dry Climates....Pages 157-171
Mediterranean Phenology....Pages 173-196
Phenologies of North American Grasslands and Grasses....Pages 197-210
Mesic Temperate Deciduous Forest Phenology....Pages 211-224
Phenology at High Latitudes....Pages 225-247
Phenology at High Altitudes....Pages 249-272
Front Matter....Pages 273-273
Plant Development Models....Pages 275-293
Animal Life Cycle Models (Poikilotherms)....Pages 295-316
Daily Temperature-Based Temporal and Spatial Modeling of Tree Phenology....Pages 317-333
Plant Phenological “Fingerprints”....Pages 335-350
High-Resolution Phenological Data....Pages 351-365
Weather Station Siting: Effects on Phenological Models....Pages 367-382
Front Matter....Pages 383-383
Remote Sensing of Land Surface Phenology: A Prospectus....Pages 385-411
Near-Surface Sensor-Derived Phenology....Pages 413-430
Front Matter....Pages 431-431
Aquatic Plants and Animals....Pages 433-450
Birds....Pages 451-466
Reproductive Phenology of Large Mammals....Pages 467-479
Front Matter....Pages 481-481
Vegetation Phenology in Global Change Studies....Pages 483-502
Temperature Sensitivity of Canopy Photosynthesis Phenology in Northern Ecosystems....Pages 503-519
Phenology and Evapotranspiration....Pages 521-538
Phenology in Agriculture and Horticulture....Pages 539-561
Winegrape Phenology....Pages 563-584
Phenology in Higher Education: Ground-Based and Spatial Analysis Tools....Pages 585-602
Back Matter....Pages 603-610

✦ Subjects

Plant Ecology; Climate Change; Atmospheric Sciences; Ecotoxicology; Zoology