Progress towards an interdisciplinary science of plant phenology: Building predictions across space, time and species diversity

New Phytologist

Volumn 201, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1156-1162

  Wolkovich, Elizabeth M ^a   Cook, Benjamin I ^b,c   Davies, T Jonathan ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b NASA GODDARD INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES   (United States)

^c International Research Institute for Climate and Society   (United States)

^d MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Climate change; Cues; Investment; Local adaptation; Phenology; Plant ecology; Plasticity; Risk

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; INTERDISCIPLINARY EDUCATION; METABOLISM; PLANT; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TIME;

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES; PLANTS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84893372537     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/nph.12599     Document Type: Review

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