Current issues in tropical phenology a synthesis

• Published in: Biotropica Vol. 50; no. 3; pp. 477 - 482
• Main Authors: Abernethy, Katharine, Bush, Emma R., Forget, Pierre-Michel, Mendoza, Irene, Morellato, Leonor Patricia C.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Hoboken Wiley 01.05.2018; Wiley Subscription Services, Inc
• Subjects: biometry; Climate change; Cycles; Data; Data collection; Dormancy; ecosystem change; ecosystems; Empirical analysis; Environmental conditions; Environmental factors; Forests; Innovation; Innovations; Irradiance; Leaves; Life Sciences; light intensity; Phenology; plant response; Rain; Rainfall; Remote sensing; seasonal variation; SPECIAL SECTION; Synthesis; temperature; trees; Tropical climate; Tropical environments; tropical phenology; Tropical plants; tropics; Weather; winter

We retrace the development of tropical phenology research, compare temperate phenology study to that in the tropics and highlight the advances currently being made in this flourishing discipline. The synthesis draws attention to how fundamentally different tropical phenology data can be to temperate...