Warm Spring Days are Related to Shorter Durations of Reproductive Phenophases for Understory Forest Herbs.

ABSTRACT: As plants continue to respond to global warming with phenological shifts, our understanding of the importance of short-lived heat events and seasonal weather cues has lagged relative to our understanding of plant responses to broad shifts in mean climate conditions. Here, we explore the importance of warmer-than-average days in driving shifts in phenophase duration for spring-flowering woodland herbs across one growing season. We harnessed the combined power of community science and public gardens, engaging more than 30 volunteers to monitor shifts in phenology (documenting movement from one phenophase to the next) for 198 individual plants of 14 species twice per week for the 2023 growing season (March-October) across five botanic gardens in the midwestern and southeastern US. Gardens inc

SUBMITTER: Miller CN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11650752 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature