Standardized phenology monitoring methods to track plant and animal activity for science and resource management applications.

ABSTRACT: Phenology offers critical insights into the responses of species to climate change; shifts in species' phenologies can result in disruptions to the ecosystem processes and services upon which human livelihood depends. To better detect such shifts, scientists need long-term phenological records covering many taxa and across a broad geographic distribution. To date, phenological observation efforts across the USA have been geographically limited and have used different methods, making comparisons across sites and species difficult. To facilitate coordinated cross-site, cross-species, and geographically extensive phenological monitoring across the nation, the USA National Phenology Network has developed in situ monitoring protocols standardized across taxonomic groups and ecosystem types for

SUBMITTER: Denny EG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4023011 | biostudies-literature | 2014 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature