Effect of Climate Change on Plant Phenology
A special issue of Forests (ISSN 1999-4907). This special issue belongs to the section "Forest Inventory, Modeling and Remote Sensing".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 December 2020) | Viewed by 462
Special Issue Editors
Interests: dendroclimatology; tree-ring growth; tree-ring formation; process-based modeling
Interests: climate change; dendrochronology; forest ecology; wood anatomy; xylogenesis
Interests: dendroecology; forest ecology; environmental changes; quantitative wood anatomy; tree growth
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Climate change affects many processes that determine not only plant productivity but also plant resistance, competition, survival. Climatic factors can initiate significant changes in the interaction of the vegetation with the atmosphere and the lithosphere. Integrally, at the organismic level, this is manifested in a shift in growth processes and in the seasonality of active growth, which in the long term determines the succession of vegetation. Therefore, a detailed climate analysis in relation to phenological trends in both individual plant species and their communities is one of the “hot” subjects in plant ecology and physiology. In this Special Issue, we wish to present experimental and theoretical research in plant phenology based on different approaches, from long-term seasonal observations to the use of remote sensing data. We also aim to collect in this Special Issue studies from the regions which are most sensitive to climate change, as well as research summarizing the most recent results from different groups and presenting integrated data on the dynamics of phenological changes in plants considering large geographical or bioclimatic transects. Considering that researchers working with agricultural crops and woody plants may provide useful data, we welcome their reports comparing changes in the climatic responses of annual and perennial plants.
Prof. Dr. Eugene A. Vaganov
Dr. Emanuele Ziaco
Dr. Alberto Arzac
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- climate, climate–crop variability
- ecological modeling
- plant–environment interactions
- remote sensing
- plant ecophysiology
- seasonal growth
