The timing of autumn senescence is affected by the timing of spring phenology: Implications for predictive models

Global Change Biology

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 2634-2641

  Keenan, Trevor F ^a   Richardson, Andrew D ^b  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Budburst; Climate change; Leaf senescence; Senescence model; Spring flushing; Tree phenology

Indexed keywords

BUDBURST; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; PHENOLOGY; PHOTOPERIOD; SENESCENCE; SPRING (SEASON); TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84931004405     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12890     Document Type: Article

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