Unbiased inference of plant flowering phenology from biological recording data

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 115, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 543-554

  Chapman, Daniel S ^a   Bell, Sandra ^b   Helfer, Stephan ^c   Roy, David B ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS   (United Kingdom)

^c ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bayesian model; Citizen science; Climate change; Discrete Fourier transform; Growing degree days; Phenology model; Recorder effort

Indexed keywords

BIOINDICATOR; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DATA SET; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FLOWERING; INTERSPECIFIC VARIATION; PHENOLOGY; POLLINATOR; RECORD; SEASONAL VARIATION; TAXONOMY;

UNITED KINGDOM;

HEXAPODA;

EID: 84931567870     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/bij.12515     Document Type: Article

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