Complex spatiotemporal phenological shifts as a response to rainfall changes

New Phytologist

Volumn 161, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 837-846

  Peñuelas, Josep ^a   Filella, Iolanda ^a   Zhang, Xiaoyang ^b   Llorens, Laura ^a   Ogaya, Romà ^a   Lloret, Francisco ^a   Comas, Pere ^c   Estiarte, Marc ^a   Terradas, Jaume ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Cardedeu Field Station   (Spain)

Author keywords

Flowering; Fruiting; Greenup onset; Iberian peninsula; Leaf unfolding; Phenological shifts; Potential evapotranspiration; Rainfall changes

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; FLOWERING; FOLIATION; FRUITING; GLOBAL WARMING; PHENOLOGY; RAINFALL;

CATALONIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

EID: 1042290185     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2004.01003.x     Document Type: Article

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