Herbarium specimens reveal the footprint of climate change on flowering trends across north-central North America

Ecology Letters

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1037-1044

  Calinger, Kellen M ^a   Queenborough, Simon ^a   Curtis, Peter S ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Invasive species; Life history; Phenological responsiveness; Phenology; Pollination syndrome

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880346078     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ele.12135     Document Type: Article

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