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Phenology: An Integrative Environmental Science
Phenology refers to recurring plant and animal life cycle stages, such as leafing and flowering, maturation of agricultural plants, emergence of insects, and migration of birds. It is also the study of these recurring events, especially their timing and relationships with weather and climate. Phenological phenomena all give a ready measure of the environment as viewed by the associated organism, and are thus ideal indicators of the impact of local and global changes in weather and climate on the earth’s biosphere.
Assessing our changing world is a complex task that requires close cooperation from experts in biology, climatology, ecology, geography, oceanography, remote sensing, and other areas. Like its predecessor, this second edition of Phenology is a synthesis of current phenological knowledge, designed as a primer on the field for global change and general scientists, students, and interested members of the public. With updated and new contributions from over fifty phenological experts, covering data collection, current research, methods, and applications, it demonstrates the accomplishments, progress over the last decade, and future potential of phenology as an integrative environmental science.
Assessing our changing world is a complex task that requires close cooperation from experts in biology, climatology, ecology, geography, oceanography, remote sensing, and other areas. Like its predecessor, this second edition of Phenology is a synthesis of current phenological knowledge, designed as a primer on the field for global change and general scientists, students, and interested members of the public. With updated and new contributions from over fifty phenological experts, covering data collection, current research, methods, and applications, it demonstrates the accomplishments, progress over the last decade, and future potential of phenology as an integrative environmental science.
610 pages, Kindle Edition
First published July 30, 2013
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February 27, 2024
Second book for quals…ok technically didn’t read all of this, just the relevant chapters so probably got through somewhere between 2/3 and 3/4.
Good overview of different phenological topics, mostly focused on plants understandably but also has several chapters on animals which is nice. Is the Sharpe-Schoolfield enzyme activation curve from the insect chapter the coolest thing I took away from this book?…maybe.
There are also a couple chapters on phenological modeling which were a bit difficult for me to gauge simply because I feel like we’ve probably come a bit further since 2011, both in terms of methods and what questions we’re trying to answer, but also because that was primarily focused in plants which I have less of a feel for.
Good overview of different phenological topics, mostly focused on plants understandably but also has several chapters on animals which is nice. Is the Sharpe-Schoolfield enzyme activation curve from the insect chapter the coolest thing I took away from this book?…maybe.
There are also a couple chapters on phenological modeling which were a bit difficult for me to gauge simply because I feel like we’ve probably come a bit further since 2011, both in terms of methods and what questions we’re trying to answer, but also because that was primarily focused in plants which I have less of a feel for.
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