Continental-scale patterns and climatic drivers of fruiting phenology: A quantitative Neotropical review

• Published in: Global and planetary change Vol. 148; pp. 227 - 241
• Main Authors: Mendoza, Irene, Peres, Carlos A., Morellato, Leonor Patrícia C.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier B.V 01.01.2017
• Subjects: air temperature; America; Brazil; cerrado; Climate change; climate models; climatic factors; Costa Rica; data collection; deciduous forests; El Nino; Frugivore; Fruit and seed production; fruiting; geographical distribution; herbaria; monitoring; phenology; photoperiod; plants (botany); prediction; rain; savannas; shrublands; solar radiation; species diversity; subtropics; tropical rain forests; Tropics; wet season; woodlands; Brazil; Costa Rica; Frugivore; Climate change; Tropics; Fruit and seed production; America

Changes in the life cycle of organisms (i.e. phenology) are one of the most widely used early-warning indicators of climate change, yet this remains poorly understood throughout the tropics. We exhaustively reviewed any published and unpublished study on fruiting phenology carried out at the communi...