Prediction of Arctic plant phenological sensitivity to climate change from historical records.

ABSTRACT: The pace of climate change in the Arctic is dramatic, with temperatures rising at a rate double the global average. The timing of flowering and fruiting (phenology) is often temperature dependent and tends to advance as the climate warms. Herbarium specimens, photographs, and field observations can provide historical phenology records and have been used, on a localised scale, to predict species' phenological sensitivity to climate change. Conducting similar localised studies in the Canadian Arctic, however, poses a challenge where the collection of herbarium specimens, photographs, and field observations have been temporally and spatially sporadic. We used flowering and seed dispersal times of 23 Arctic species from herbarium specimens, photographs, and field observations collected from ac

SUBMITTER: Panchen ZA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5330922 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature