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Orchard netting impacts on biodiversity leading to cascading effects at the ecosystem level

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Agriculture must ensure food production without further compromising the ecosystem functions upon which it depends. Agricultural practices should therefore avoid harming farmland biodiversity, especially of taxa that supply the key ecosystem services (e.g.
Corrado Alessandrini, Karan Sethi, Emanuela Granata, Ekaterina Mogilnaia, Valeria Vitangeli, Giovanni Zanfei, Chiara Fedrigotti, Paolo Biella, Dino Scaravelli, Luigi Marchesi, Péter Batáry, Diego Rubolini, Paolo Pedrini, Mattia Brambilla   +13 more
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Best environmental predictors of breeding phenology differ with elevation in a common woodland bird species

Ecology and Evolution, 2020
Temperatures in mountain areas are increasing at a higher rate than the Northern Hemisphere land average, but how fauna may respond, in particular in terms of phenology, remains poorly understood.
Marjorie Bison, Nigel G. Yoccoz, Bradley Carlson, Geoffrey Klein, Idaline Laigle, Colin Van Reeth, Daphné Asse, Anne Delestrade   +7 more
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Assessing Snow Phenology over the Large Part of Eurasia Using Satellite Observations from 2000 to 2016

Remote Sensing, 2020
Snow plays an important role in meteorological, hydrological and ecological processes, and snow phenology variation is critical for improved understanding of climate feedback on snow cover.
Yanhua Sun, Tingjun Zhang, Yijing Liu, Wenyu Zhao, Xiaodong Huang   +4 more
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Complex relationships between climate and reproduction in a resident montane bird

Royal Society Open Science, 2023
Animals use climate-related environmental cues to fine-tune breeding timing and investment to match peak food availability. In birds, spring temperature is a commonly documented cue used to initiate breeding, but with global climate change, organisms are
Lauren E. Whitenack, Joseph F. Welklin, Carrie L. Branch, Benjamin R. Sonnenberg, Angela M. Pitera, Dovid Y. Kozlovsky, Lauren M. Benedict, Virginia K. Heinen, Vladimir V. Pravosudov   +8 more
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Retrospective Analysis of Wood Anatomical Traits Reveals a Recent Extension in Tree Cambial Activity in Two High-Elevation Conifers [PDF]

, 2017
The study of xylogenesis or wood formation is a powerful, yet labor intensive monitoring approach to investigate intra-annual tree growth responses to environmental factors.
Angela L. Prendin, Daniele Castagneri, Georg von Arx, Georg von Arx, Giai Petit, Marco Carrer   +5 more
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Vegetation on the move: elevational shifts and greening dynamics across the Himalayan alpine zone

Ecography, EarlyView.
This study investigates alpine ‘vegetation line' (the upper limit of continuous plant community) dynamics in the Himalayan alpine zone (HAZ) over a 24‐year timescale (1999–2022) using maximum NDVI products derived from Landsat series datasets, adjusted for sampling bias using phenological modelling.
Ruolin Leng, Stephan Harrison, Dominic Fawcett, Achyut Tiwari, Mike Harrison, Karen Anderson   +5 more
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Using by‐catch data from wildlife surveys to quantify climatic parameters and timing of phenology for plants and animals using camera traps

Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, 2020
Gaining a better understanding of global environmental change is an important challenge for conserving biodiversity. Shifts in phenology are an important consequence of environmental change.
Tim R. Hofmeester, Sherry Young, Sonya Juthberg, Navinder J. Singh, Fredrik Widemo, Henrik Andrén, John D. C. Linnell, Joris P. G. M. Cromsigt   +7 more
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Long‐Term Variability and Spatial Differentiation of the Frost‐Free Period in Iceland

International Journal of Climatology, EarlyView.
Warming in Iceland (May–September) is expressed as fewer Tmin < 0°C days in the interior and more Tmin > 0°C days along the coasts. ABSTRACT Climate change in subarctic regions leads to significant transformations in thermal conditions; however, the long‐term variability of the frost‐free season (FFS)—and consequently, the growing period—remains poorly
Katarzyna Piotrowicz, Katarzyna Szyga‐Pluta, Alicja Szklarczyk, Ewa Przedpełska‐Wąsowicz   +3 more
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High-latitude snowfall as a sensitive indicator of climate warming: A case study of Heilongjiang Province, China

Ecological Indicators, 2021
While global distribution and dynamics of snow extent and snow depth have been intensely studied, the response of snowfall events to global warming is complex and remains unclear in current literature.
Lijuan Zhang, Cuizhen Wang, Yongsheng Li, Yutao Huang, Fan Zhang, Tao Pan   +5 more
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Extreme Climate Events in Morocco: Historical Analysis and Future Projections Based on CMIP6 Simulations

International Journal of Climatology, EarlyView.
Historical observations and bias‐corrected CMIP6 projections reveal intensifying warm extremes, declining cold events and increasingly irregular precipitation patterns across Morocco. Future warming, particularly under SSP5‐8.5, produces an almost linear amplification of heat, aridity and hydrological stress, leading to longer droughts and more intense
Oualid Hakam, Abdelhakim Amazirh, El Houssaine Bouras, Victor Ongoma, Abdelghani Chehbouni   +4 more
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