Responses of spring phenology in temperate zone trees to climate warming: A case study of apricot flowering in China

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 201, Issue , 2015, Pages 1-7

  Guo, Liang ^a,b   Dai, Junhu ^c   Wang, Mingcheng ^d   Xu, Jianchu ^a,d   Luedeling, Eike ^d,e  

^a KUNMING INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^b NORTHWEST A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^d WORLD AGROFORESTRY CENTRE ICRAF   (Kenya)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Climate warming; Flowering; Partial Least Squares regression; Prunus armeniaca L.; Spring phenology; Temperate zone plants

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; FLOWERING; FRUIT; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LONG-TERM CHANGE; PHENOLOGY; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT;

CHINA;

PRUNUS ARMENIACA;

EID: 84911393526     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2014.10.016     Document Type: Article

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