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ProfessorRobertEwers

Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Life Sciences (Silwood Park)

Professor of Ecology
 
 
 
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+44 (0)20 7594 2223r.ewers

 
 
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Location

 

1.4Centre for Population BiologySilwood Park

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Summary

 

Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Gray:2021:10.3390/f12030297,
author = {Gray, REJ and Ewers, RM},
doi = {10.3390/f12030297},
journal = {Forests},
pages = {1--24},
title = {Monitoring forest phenology in a changing world},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/f12030297},
volume = {12},
year = {2021}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - Plant phenology is strongly interlinked with ecosystem processes and biodiversity. Like many other aspects of ecosystem functioning, it is affected by habitat and climate change, with both global change drivers altering the timings and frequency of phenological events. As such, there has been an increased focus in recent years to monitor phenology in different biomes. A range of approaches for monitoring phenology have been developed to increase our understanding on its role in ecosystems, ranging from the use of satellites and drones to collection traps, each with their own merits and limitations. Here, we outline the trade-offs between methods (spatial resolution, temporal resolution, cost, data processing), and discuss how their use can be optimised in different environments and for different goals. We also emphasise emerging technologies that will be the focus of monitoring in the years to follow and the challenges of monitoring phenology that still need to be addressed. We conclude that there is a need to integrate studies that incorporate multiple monitoring methods, allowing the strengths of one to compensate for the weaknesses of another, with a view to developing robust methods for upscaling phenological observations from point locations to biome and global scales and reconciling data from varied sources and environments. Such developments are needed if we are to accurately quantify the impacts of a changing world on plant phenology.
AU  - Gray,REJ
AU  - Ewers,RM
DO  - 10.3390/f12030297
EP  - 24
PY  - 2021///
SN  - 1999-4907
SP  - 1
TI  - Monitoring forest phenology in a changing world
T2  - Forests
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/f12030297
UR  - https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4907/12/3/297
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/88434
VL  - 12
ER  -
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