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Plant Phenology as a Biomonitor for Climate Change in Germany: A Modelling and Mapping Approach

By Gunther Schmidt , Winfried Schröder (auth.) , Simon Schönrock

Book information

Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Year
2014
ISBN
978-3-319-09089-4, 978-3-319-09090-0
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-09090-0
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
9 MB (9812511 bytes)
Series
SpringerBriefs in Environmental Science
Edition
1
Pages
64\75
Time added
2014-11-10 20:00:00
Climate Change; Climate Change/Climate Change Impa

Description

The investigations refer to the development of plant phenology since the 1960s in Germany. Spatiotemporal trends were assessed by means of regression kriging. It could be shown that there already is a distinct shift of phenological onset towards the beginning of the year of up to two weeks. In future, a shift of up to one month was calculated till 2080. Moreover, a prolongation of the vegetation period of up to three weeks was found. The findings are relevant for the development of mitigation measures to prevent from environmental, agricultural and economic issues due to climate change.

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