Temperature sensitivity thresholds to warming and cooling in phenophases of alpine plants

• Published in: Climatic change Vol. 139; no. 3-4; pp. 579 - 590
• Main Authors: Meng, Fandong, Zhou, Yang, Wang, Shiping, Duan, Jichuang, Zhang, Zhenhua, Niu, Haishan, Jiang, Lili, Cui, Shujuan, Li, Xin’e, Luo, Caiyun, Zhang, Lrirong, Wang, Qi, Bao, Xiaoying, Dorji, Tsechoe, Li, Yingnian, Du, Mingyuan, Zhao, Xinquan, Zhao, Liang, Wang, Guojie, Inouye, David W.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 01.12.2016; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: alpine plants; Atmospheric Sciences; Climate change; Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts; Cooling; Delay; Earth and Environmental Science; Earth Sciences; Ecosystem biology; Flowers & plants; Hypotheses; Laboratories; Mountains; nonlinear models; Nonlinearity; Phenology; Plant ecology; Plant populations; Plant species; Sensitivity; Slope gradients; Temperature; Thresholds; topographic slope; Temperature Sensitivity; Phenological Response; Alpine Plant; Phenological Change; Soil Block

The assumption of a linear relationship between temperature and phenophases may be misleading. Furthermore, a lack of understanding of the changes in temperature sensitivity of phenophases to changes in temperature strongly limits our ability to predict phenological change in response to climate cha...