Temperature and Plant Development: Phenology and Seasonality

Plant Growth and Climate Change

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 70-95

  Menzel, Annette ^a   Sparks, Tim ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate impacts; Climatic variables; Flowering; Phenology; Plant development

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889399544     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470988695.ch4     Document Type: Chapter

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