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Biology
Theresa Crimmins, Ellen Denny, Erin Posthumus, Alyssa Rosemartin, Rob Croll, Melonee Montano, Hannah Panci
Summary: The USA National Phenology Network was established in 2007 to standardize phenology monitoring. The network collects, stores, and shares phenology data and information through the Nature's Notebook platform, supporting scientific discovery, decision-making, and phenology research. Participants range from backyard observers to professionals. The network's data set dimensionality is shaped by Nature's Notebook users, which is crucial for future data collection activities.
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Ruben D. Manzanedo, Aji John, Meera L. Sethi, Elli J. Theobald, Berry Brosi, Joshua Jenkins, Ava Kloss-Schmidt, Emilia Lia, Annie Schiffer, Jordana Sevigny, Anna Wilson, Yonit Yogev, Janneke Hille Ris Lambers
Summary: This study presents a long-term and high-resolution phenological dataset from 17 wildflower species, which were collected as part of the MeadoWatch community science project. The dataset is of high quality and reliability, making it suitable for ecological research.
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Ecology
James P. Michielini, Erik B. Dopman, Elizabeth E. Crone
Summary: The study used 27 years of citizen science monitoring data to quantify trends in butterfly phenology and relative abundance, finding that elongated activity periods within a year may be a key factor in increasing abundance. Some species appear to be adding a late-season generation, while others appear to be adding a spring generation, indicating a possible shift from vagrant to resident.
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Emily N. E. Black, Jarrett D. Blair, Karin R. L. van der Burg, Katie E. Marshall
Summary: This study investigated the formation of allochronic speciation and the impact of sympatric divergence on latitude. The results showed that seasonality at lower latitudes increased the strength of allochronic speciation in insects, and the intensity of sympatric divergence varied along a latitudinal gradient. This has significant implications for our understanding of macro-scale speciation events and global biodiversity trends.
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Development Studies
Sara Cruz, Marisa Graca, Paulo Conceicao, Tina-Simone Neset, Sirkku Juhola
Summary: Despite the low engagement of the public in climate adaptation, this paper emphasizes the importance of the affective dimension in enhancing citizen engagement. By integrating research on climate adaptation with the exploration of affective practices, specific affective facilitators are identified to drive actionable outcomes. The use of Citizen Science is advocated to support citizen engagement, as demonstrated by the Citizen Sensing Project.
JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT
(2023)
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Environmental Sciences
Theresa M. Crimmins, Michael A. Crimmins
Summary: This study demonstrates the potential of large-scale citizen science programs to contribute to national climate and ecosystem assessments by identifying and evaluating biotic climate change indicators and generating yearly estimates of indicator status. By utilizing opportunistic data collected through a citizen science program, the researchers show how these observations can be used to understand phenological responses to local springtime temperatures. The findings highlight the importance of citizen science in monitoring and understanding environmental changes.
ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS
(2022)
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Plant Sciences
Daniel S. Park, Goia M. Lyra, Aaron M. Ellison, Rogerio Katsuhito Barbosa Maruyama, Debora dos Reis Torquato, Renata C. Asprino, Benjamin I. Cook, Charles C. Davis
Summary: Plant phenology has dramatically shifted in response to climate change, and this shift may have significant ecological consequences. Despite the concern for tropical biomes, we have limited knowledge about phenological responses of tropical plants due to the scarcity of long-term observational datasets. However, we have demonstrated that herbarium specimens can accurately estimate reproductive timing and its spatial variation, making them a vital resource for filling the gap in our phenological knowledge of tropical systems.
JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY
(2023)
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Biology
Ulf Buentgen, Alma Piermattei, Paul J. Krusic, Jan Esper, Tim Sparks, Alan Crivellaro
Summary: This article presents long-term observations of the first flowering date of plant species in the UK from 1753 to 2019. The study finds that the community-wide first flowering has advanced by almost one month since 1986. The timing of first flowering varies with location and elevation, and these changes can impact the functioning and productivity of ecosystems and agriculture.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
(2022)
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Ecology
Jonathan A. Knott, Liang Liang, Jeffrey S. Dukes, Robert K. Swihart, Songlin Fei
Summary: In a 58-year common garden experiment, we tested the phenological sensitivity of northern red oak populations to temperature changes and whether these differences were associated with differences in productivity and survival. We found that spring leaf out consistently advanced in warmer years, but fall phenology was less responsive to temperature changes. Southern populations had larger shifts in phenology in response to springtime warming, but lower long-term survival. However, higher phenological sensitivity to spring warming was not strongly linked to increased productivity, and fitness was more closely linked to latitudinal gradients.
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Plant Sciences
Daniel S. Park, Ian K. Breckheimer, Aaron M. Ellison, Goia M. Lyra, Charles C. Davis
Summary: The study found that flowering time displacement is not common across large scales, but is generally greater among species pairs that flower close in time.
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Plant Sciences
Daniel S. S. Park, Yingying Xie, Aaron M. M. Ellison, Goia M. M. Lyra, Charles C. C. Davis
Summary: Urbanization can influence the timing of plant reproduction and associated ecosystem processes. Using herbarium data, our study found that the effects of urbanization on plant phenology varied across different species ranges. We demonstrated the importance of considering both climatic and human effects on phenological change and emphasized the need to incorporate multiple environmental factors in phenological models.
Article
Biophysics
Natalie Iwanycki Ahlstrand, Richard B. Primack, Anders P. Tottrup
Summary: Phenology has emerged as a key metric to measure species' response to climate change. Different data types, including herbarium specimens, citizen science programs, and biodiversity data, have been used to extend phenological data. In this study, three separate phenology datasets from Denmark were compared, showing the effectiveness of different data types in detecting environmental impacts on phenology. Combining herbarium data with iNaturalist data provided a more effective method for detecting climatic effects on phenology. Citizen science initiatives will become increasingly valuable for climate change research with the addition of data capturing the inter-annual variation in phenology.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOMETEOROLOGY
(2022)
Article
Ecology
Mats Ittonen, Alexandra Hagelin, Christer Wiklund, Karl Gotthard
Summary: Daylength affects diapause induction in butterflies, but northern populations are able to adapt rapidly to their local daylength conditions during range expansions.
Article
Biology
Lars Uphus, Johannes Uhler, Cynthia Tobisch, Sandra Rojas-Botero, Marvin Luepke, Caryl Benjamin, Jana Englmeier, Ute Fricke, Cristina Ganuza, Maria Haensel, Sarah Redlich, Jie Zhang, Joerg Mueller, Annette Menzel
Summary: Urbanization and agricultural intensification are the main causes of recent insect decline in temperate Europe, while the direct effects of climate warming are still unclear. However, higher temperatures can lead to earlier spring leaf emergence, which may directly or indirectly affect insects. In this study, we investigated how spring temperature affects the start of season and spatial variability of green-up, and how these variables relate to insect biomass and richness across different land-use types in southern Germany. The results showed that the effects of green-up variables on insect biomass and richness varied between land-use types, with the strongest effects observed in forests. In forests, later green-up and higher spatial variability of green-up were associated with higher insect richness and biomass. We conclude that with a warming climate, earlier and more uniform green-up may negatively impact insect biomass and richness in forests. Therefore, strategies for adaptation should focus on promoting spatial variability in green-up in forests, which can be achieved by increasing plant species and structural diversity. Through this pathway, climate warming may indirectly contribute to a decline in insect richness and biomass.
COMMUNICATIONS BIOLOGY
(2023)
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Ecology
Elaina K. Haas, Frank A. La Sorte, Hanna M. McCaslin, Maria C. T. D. Belotti, Kyle G. Horton
Summary: We found positive correlations between WSR and eBird-based estimates of migration phenology, with differences in the strength of correlations among taxonomic orders and migration flyways.
GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY
(2022)
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Biodiversity Conservation
Jack D. Shutt, Margaret Bolton, Irene Benedicto Cabello, Malcolm D. Burgess, Albert B. Phillimore
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Biodiversity Conservation
Luis Valente, Albert B. Phillimore, Rampal S. Etienne
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Biodiversity Conservation
Gergana N. Daskalova, Albert B. Phillimore, Matthew Bell, Hywel E. Maggs, Allan J. Perkins
JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY
(2019)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Jakob J. Assmann, Isla H. Myers-Smith, Albert B. Phillimore, Anne D. Bjorkman, Richard E. Ennos, Janet S. Prevey, Greg H. R. Henry, Niels M. Schmidt, Robert D. Hollister
GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY
(2019)
Article
Ecology
Jack D. Shutt, Malcolm D. Burgess, Albert B. Phillimore
AMERICAN NATURALIST
(2019)
Article
Biology
Jack D. Shutt, Irene Benedicto Cabello, Katharine Keogan, David Leech, Jelmer M. Samplonius, Lorienne Whittle, Malcolm D. Burgess, Albert B. Phillimore
PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
(2019)
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Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Jack D. Shutt, James A. Nicholls, Urmi H. Trivedi, Malcolm D. Burgess, Graham N. Stone, Jarrod D. Hadfield, Albert B. Phillimore
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Luis Valente, Albert B. Phillimore, Martim Melo, Ben H. Warren, Sonya M. Clegg, Katja Havenstein, Ralph Tiedemann, Juan Carlos Illera, Christophe Thebaud, Tina Aschenbach, Rampal S. Etienne
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Ecology
Katharine Keogan, Sue Lewis, Richard J. Howells, Mark A. Newell, Michael P. Harris, Sarah Burthe, Richard A. Phillips, Sarah Wanless, Albert B. Phillimore, Francis Daunt
Summary: The changing timing of reproduction due to rising temperatures may result in trophic asynchrony, but the study found that climate-induced trophic mismatch did not significantly impact the breeding success of European shags. The population as a whole advanced its lay date by almost 4 weeks, indicating a shift towards earlier breeding, while individuals also showed a trend towards earlier laying.
JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY
(2021)
Editorial Material
Biodiversity Conservation
Gergana N. Daskalova, Albert B. Phillimore, Isla H. Myers-Smith
Summary: Recent studies have reported a severe decline in insect populations, but some of them failed to account for confounding factors, leading to non-significant results in some cases. Global analysis showed that the average trends of insects in terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems were not significantly distinguishable from no net change.
INSECT CONSERVATION AND DIVERSITY
(2021)
Article
Ornithology
Dagmar Der Weduwen, Katharine Keogan, Jelmer M. Samplonius, Albert B. Phillimore, Jack D. Shutt
Summary: This study found that blue tits are able to adjust their nest characteristics based on environmental gradients like latitude and the annual mean phenological variation of egg laying. Female parental identity has a significant influence on nest height, while nest building duration is shorter when egg laying occurs earlier in the year. Overall, taller nests take longer to build across all observations.
JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Ecology
Jelmer M. Samplonius, Angus Atkinson, Christopher Hassall, Katharine Keogan, Stephen J. Thackeray, Jakob J. Assmann, Malcolm D. Burgess, Jacob Johansson, Kirsty H. Macphie, James W. Pearce-Higgins, Emily G. Simmonds, Oystein Varpe, Jamie C. Weir, Dylan Z. Childs, Ella F. Cole, Francis Daunt, Tom Hart, Owen T. Lewis, Nathalie Pettorelli, Ben C. Sheldon, Albert B. Phillimore
Summary: Five key criteria have been proposed to demonstrate the negative impacts of temperature-mediated phenological asynchrony on consumers, which are rarely met in current literature. The majority of studies on temperature change, phenological asynchrony, and impacts have been conducted in Europe and North America, with a focus on terrestrial secondary consumers, limiting the generalizability of conclusions on the global risk of climate-mediated trophic asynchrony.
NATURE ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION
(2021)
Article
Ecology
Katharine Keogan, Francis Daunt, Sarah Wanless, Richard A. Phillips, David Alvarez, Tycho Anker-Nilssen, Robert T. Barrett, Claus Bech, Peter H. Becker, Per-Arvid Berglund, Sandra Bouwhuis, Zofia M. Burr, Olivier Chastel, Signe Christensen-Dalsgaard, Sebastien Descamps, Tony Diamond, Kyle Elliott, Kjell-Einar Erikstad, Mike Harris, Jonas Hentati-Sundberg, Martin Heubeck, Stephen W. Kress, Magdalene Langset, Svein-Hakon Lorentsen, Heather L. Major, Mark Mallory, Mick Mellor, Will T. S. Miles, Borge Moe, Carolyn Mostello, Mark Newell, Ian Nisbet, Tone Kirstin Reiertsen, Jennifer Rock, Paula Shannon, Oystein Varpe, Sue Lewis, Albert B. Phillimore
Summary: This study investigates the shared phenological responses to environmental drivers among different seabird populations. The results show that populations of different species sharing the same breeding site or small-scale breeding region have positively correlated laying dates, suggesting shared phenological responses to the same environmental conditions. However, no positive phenological covariation was found among populations across species at larger spatial scales. The study also highlights the idiosyncratic responses of populations to local environmental conditions.
JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Ornithology
Claire J. J. Branston, Mark J. J. Whittingham, Albert B. B. Phillimore, Dave Leech, Stephen G. G. Willis
Summary: The impacts of climate change on phenology and reproductive investment of birds in woodland habitats with different tree compositions were investigated. The study found that woodland composition did not have a significant effect on the first egg date and clutch size of Blue Tits. However, clutch size has decreased as spring temperatures have increased in recent decades.
Article
Biology
Rebecca S. L. Lovell, Sinead Collins, Simon H. Martin, Alex L. Pigot, Albert B. Phillimore
Summary: In an era of rapid environmental change, predicting the response of biodiversity to climate change is a pressing challenge. Spatial climate-biotic relationships are commonly used as a substitute for long-term biological data to infer biotic responses to climate change over time. This review examines the use of climate-focused 'space-for-time substitutions' (SFTS) in four subfields of ecology and evolution, highlighting the similarities, differences, limitations, and opportunities across these subfields.
BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS
(2023)