Precipitation and temperature are associated with advanced flowering phenology in a semi-arid grassland

Journal of Arid Environments

Volumn 74, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1013-1017

  Lesica, P ^a   Kittelson, P M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^b GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Advanced flowering; Climate change; Global warming; Montana; Phenology; Rocky Mountains

Indexed keywords

FLOWERING; GLOBAL WARMING; GRASSLAND; HERB; LINEARITY; PHENOLOGY; PLANT COMMUNITY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEMIARID REGION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

MONTANA; ROCKY MOUNTAINS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84855482232     PISSN: 01401963     EISSN: 1095922X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaridenv.2010.02.002     Document Type: Article

References (43)

1. Abu-Asab M.S., Peterson P.M., Shelter S.G., Orli S.S. Earlier plant flowering in spring as a response to global warming in the Washington D.C. area. Biodiversity and Conservation 2001, 10:597-612.
2. Beaubien E.G., Freeland H.J. Spring phenology trends in Alberta, Canada: links to ocean temperature. International Journal of Biometeorology 2000, 44:53-59.
3. Bowers J.E., Dimmitt M.A. Flowering phenology of six woody plants in the northern Sonoran Desert. Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society 1994, 121:215-229.
4. Bradley N.L., Leopold A.C., Ross J., Huffaker W. Phenological changes reflect climate change in Wisconsin. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 1999, 96:9701-9704.
5. Chapin F.S., Randerson J.T., McGuire A.D., Foley J.A., Field C.B. Changing feedbacks in the climate-biosphere system. Frontiers in Ecology and Environment 2008, 6:313-320.
6. Caicedo A.L., Stinchcombe J.R., Olsen K.M., Schmitt J., Purugganan M.D. Epistatic interaction between Arabidopsis FRI and FLC flowering time genes generates a latitudinal cline in a life history trait. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2005, 101:15670-15675.
7. Dahlgren J.P., von Zeipel H., Ehrlén J. Variation in vegetative and flowering phenology in a forest herb caused by environmental heterogeneity. American Journal of Botany 2007, 94:1570-1576.
8. Fitter A.H., Fitter R.S.R., Harris I.T.B., Williamson M.H. Relationships between first flowering date and temperature in the flora of a locality in central England. Functional Ecology 1995, 9:55-60.
9. Fitter A.H., Fitter R.S.R. Rapid changes in flowering time in British plants. Science 2002, 296:1689-1691.
10. Friedel M.H., Nelson D.J., Sparrow A.D., Kinloch J.E., Maconochie J.R. What induces central Australian arid zone trees and shrubs to flower and fruit?. Australian Journal of Botany 1993, 41:307-319.
11. Hamann A. Flowering and fruiting phenology of a Philippine submontane rain forest: climatic factors as proximate and ultimate causes. Journal of Ecology 2004, 92:24-31.
12. Heide O. Photoperiod and temperature interactions in growth and flowering of strawberry. Physiological Plantarum 2006, 40:21-26.
13. Hughes L. Biological consequences of global warming: is the signal already apparent?. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 2000, 15:56-61.
14. Inouye D.W. Effects of climate change on phenology, frost damage, and floral abundance of montane wildflowers. Ecology 2008, 89:353-362.
15. Inouye D.W., Morales M.A., Dodge G.J. Variation in timing and abundance of flowering by Delphinium barbeyi Huth (Ranunculaceae): the roles of snowpack, frost and La Niña, in the context of climate change. Oecologia 2002, 130:543-550.
16. Inouye D.W., Saavedra F., Lee-Yang W. Environmental influences on the phenology and abundance of flowering by Androsace septentrionalis (Primulaceae). American Journal of Botany 2003, 90:905-910.
17. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Summary for policymakers. Climate Change 2007: Mitigation. Contribution of Working Group III to the Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC 2007, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. B. Metz, O.R. Davidson, P.R. Bosch (Eds.).
18. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Summary for policymakers. Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC 2007, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. S. Solomon, D. Qin, M. Manning (Eds.).
19. Keller F., Körner C. The role of photoperiodism in alpine plant development. Arctic Antarctic Alpine Research 2003, 35:361-368.
20. Kudo G., Nishikawa Y., Kasagi T., Kosuge S. Does seed production of spring ephemerals decrease when spring comes early?. Ecological Research 2004, 19:255-259.
21. Little R.J.A., Rubin D.R. Statistical Analysis with Missing Data 1987, John Wiley & Sons, New York, USA.
22. McMillan C., Pagel B.F. Phenological variation within a population of Symphoricarpos occidentalis. Ecology 1958, 39:766-770.
23. Menzel A., Fabian P. Growing season extended in Europe. Nature 1999, 397:659.
24. Menzel A., Sparks T.H., Estrella N., et al. European phenological response to climate change matches the warming pattern. Global Change Biology 2006, 12:1969-1976.
25. Miller-Rushing A.J., Primack R.B. Global warming and flowering times in Thoreau's Concord: a community perspective. Ecology 2008, 89:332-341.
26. Motten A.F. Pollination ecology of the spring wildflower communities of a temperate deciduous forest. Ecological Monographs 1986, 56:21-42.
27. Mueggler, W.F., Stewart, W.L., 1980. Grassland and Shrubland Habitat Types of Western Montana. USDA Forest Service General Technical Report INT-66, Ogden, Utah, USA.
28. Peñuelas J., Filella I., Zhang X., Llorens L., Ogaya R., Lloret F., Comas P., Estiarte M., Terradas J. Complex spatiotemporal phenological shifts as a response to rainfall changes. New Phytologist 2004, 161:837-846.
29. Post E., Stenseth N.C. Climatic variability, plant phenology and northern ungulates. Ecology 1999, 80:1322-1339.
30. Prieto P., Peñuelas J., Ogaya R., Estiarte M. Precipitation-dependent flowering of Globularia alypum and Erica multiflora in Mediterranean shrubland under experimental drought and warming and its interannual variability. Annals of Botany 2008, 102:275-285.
31. Rathcke B., Lacey E.P. Phenological patterns of terrestrial plants. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 1985, 16:179-214.
32. Saavedra F., Inouye D.W., Price M., Harte J. Changes in flowering and abundance of Delphinium nuttallianum (Ranunculaceae) in response to a subalpine climate warming experiment. Global Change Biology 2003, 9:885-894.
33. Sokal R.R., Rohlf F.J. Biometry. The Principles and Practice of Statistics in Biological Research 1981, W.H. Freeman and Company, San Francisco, California, USA.
34. Sparks T.H., Carey P.D. The responses of species to climate over two centuries: an analysis of the Marsham phenological record. Journal of Ecology 1995, 83:321-329.
35. Sparks T.H., Jeffree E.P., Jefree C.E. An examination of the relationship between flowering times and temperature at the national scale using long-term phenological records from the UK. International Journal of Biometeorology 2000, 44:82-87.
36. SPSS SYSTAT 10 2000, SPSS Inc., Chicago, Illinois, USA.
37. Stenseth N.C., Mysterud A. Climate, changing phenology and other life history traits: non-linearity and match-mismatch to the environment. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2005, 99:13379-13381.
38. Thórhallsdóttir T.E. Flowering phenology in the central highland of Iceland and implications for climatic warming in the Arctic. Oecologia 1998, 114:43-49.
39. Van Dijk H., Hautekeete N. Long day plants and the response to global warming: rapid evolutionary change in day length sensitivity is possible in wild beet. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 2007, 20:349-357.
40. Walther G., Post E., Convey P., Menzel A., Parmesan C., Beebee T.J.C., Fromentin J., Hoegh-Guldberg O., Bairlein F. Ecological responses to recent climate change. Nature 2002, 416:389-395.
41. West N.E. Intermountain deserts, shrub steppes, and woodlands. North American Terrestrial Vegetation 1988, Cambridge University Press, New York, USA. M.G. Barbour, W.D. Billings (Eds.).
42. Wielgolaski F.E. Phenological modification in plants by various edaphic factors. International Journal of Biometeorology 2001, 45:196-202.
43. Yanovsky M.J., Kay S.A. Living by the calendar: how plants know when to flower. Nature Reviews: Molecular Cell Biology 2003, 4:265-276.