FLOWERING DATE OF TAXONOMIC FAMILIES PREDICTS PHENOLOGICAL SENSITIVITY TO TEMPERATURE: IMPLICATIONS FOR FORECASTING THE EFFECTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON UNSTUDIED TAXA

Abstract

Conclusions: Family membership can be used to identify taxa of high and low sensitivity to temperature within the seasonal, temperate zone plant communities analyzed here. The high sensitivity of early-flowering families (and the absence of early-flowering families not sensitive to temperature) may reflect plasticity in flowering time, which may be adaptive in environments where early-season conditions are highly variable among years.

Published in

American Journal of Botany
2013, volume: 100, number: 7, pages: 1381-1397
Publisher: BOTANICAL SOC AMER INC

SLU Authors

• Bolmgren, Kjell

  • Unit for Field-based Forest Research, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    
  • Lund University

Global goals (SDG)

SDG13 Climate action

UKÄ Subject classification

Ecology
Climate Science

Publication identifier

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.3732/ajb.1200455

Permanent link to this page (URI)

https://res.slu.se/id/publ/54452