Automated data-intensive forecasting of plant phenology throughout the United States.

ABSTRACT: Phenology, the timing of cyclical and seasonal natural phenomena such as flowering and leaf out, is an integral part of ecological systems with impacts on human activities like environmental management, tourism, and agriculture. As a result, there are numerous potential applications for actionable predictions of when phenological events will occur. However, despite the availability of phenological data with large spatial, temporal, and taxonomic extents, and numerous phenology models, there have been no automated species-level forecasts of plant phenology. This is due in part to the challenges of building a system that integrates large volumes of climate observations and forecasts, uses that data to fit models and make predictions for large numbers of species, and consistently disseminates

SUBMITTER: Taylor SD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9285964 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature