Better soon than never: climate change induces strong phenological reassembly in the flowering of a Mediterranean shrub community.

ABSTRACT:

Background and aims

Flowering is a key process in the life cycle of a plant. Climate change is shifting flowering phenologies in the Northern Hemisphere, but studies with long data series at the community level are scarce, especially those considering the consequences of phenological changes for emerging ecological interactions. In the Mediterranean region, the effects of climate change are stronger than the global average and there is an urgent need to understand how biodiversity will be affected in this area.

Methods

In this study, we investigated how the entire flowering phenology of a community comprising 51 perennial species from the south of the Iberian Peninsula changed from the decade of the 1980s to the 2020s. Furthermore, we have analysed the consequences of these

SUBMITTER: Pareja-Bonilla D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11805945 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature