Parameterization of temperature sensitivity of spring phenology and its application in explaining diverse phenological responses to temperature change

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Wang, Huanjiong ^a,b   Ge, Quansheng ^a   Rutishauser, This ^c   Dai, Yuxiao ^d   Dai, Junhu ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^d POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; PLANT; SEASON; TEMPERATURE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; PLANTS; SEASONS; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84924675124     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep08833     Document Type: Article

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