phenology

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The research, based on phenology -- the study of the timing of familiar signs of spring seen in plants, insects, birds, and other species -- found that the arrival of spring is advancing at 14.5 days per decade.

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  1. noun The scientific study of periodic biological phenomena, such as flowering, breeding, and migration, in relation to climatic conditions.
  2. noun The relationship between a periodic biological phenomenon and climatic conditions.

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  • (That's phenology, the study of recurring plant and animals phases, not phrenology.) —  ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
  • The techniques include consistent inputs from the 8 km Global Inventory Modeling and Mapping Studies Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer NDVIg dataset, independent data for snow cover, soil thaw, lake ice dynamics, spring streamflow timing, over 16 000 individual measurements of ground-based phenology, and two temperature-driven models of spring phenology. —  RealClimate
  • The point of the phenological evidence (and no, it's not "anecdotal", phenology is an established scientific subdiscipline) is that it confirms, along with direct temperature measurements, and glacier retreats, that there has been marked warming over the past half-century, during which time there has been no noticeable change in solar activity aside from the quasi-regular solar cycle, indicating that the change cannot be due to the sun. —  RealClimate
  • Today, phenology is recognized as an important, even critical, approach to understanding climate change. —  Impact Lab
  • The research, based on phenology -- the study of the timing of familiar signs of spring seen in plants, insects, birds, and other species -- found that the arrival of spring is advancing at 14.5 days per decade. —  Mongabay.com News
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