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Historical floras reflect broad shifts in flowering phenology in response to a warming climate

SND-ID: 2021-152

This study is part of the collection Phenology observations and studies

Creator/Principal investigator(s)

Alistair Auffret - Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences orcid

Description

The data set contains months of flowering from 11 guides to the Swedish flora published over a period of 220 years (1798-2018), focussing on 241 plant species (approximately 8% of the Swedish flora). These species were a combination of randomly-selected common and widespread species (n=199) and species for which the species’ Swedish or binomial scientific name indicates that it is related to flowering phenology, or are species for which the public is encouraged to report data for the Swedish phenology network (n=42). These data were used to test whether broad changes in flowering phenology (start, cessation and length) over time and in response to climate warming were detectable from these historical sources.

Language

English

Research principal, contributors, and funding

Research principal

Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

Principal's reference number

SLU.ekol.2021.4.4.IÄ-2

Responsible department/unit

Department of Ecology

Funding 1

  • Funding agency: Swedish research council Formas
  • Funding agency's reference number: 2015-1065
  • Project name on the application: Responses in floral diversity and distributions to changes in land use and climate

Funding 2

  • Funding agency: Swedish Research Council
  • Funding agency's reference number: 2020-04276
  • Project name on the application: Interacting effects of land-use and climate change on biodiversity
Protection and ethical review

Data contains personal data

No

Method and time period

Time period(s) investigated

1798 – 2018

Geographic coverage

Geographic spread

Geographic location: Sweden

Topic and keywords

Research area

Natural Sciences, Earth and Related Environmental Sciences, Climate Research, Biological Sciences, Ecology (The Swedish standard of fields of research 2011)

Keywords

phenology, flowering date, climate change impact

Publications

Auffret, A.G. (2021). Historical floras reflect broad shifts in flowering phenology in response to a warming climate, Ecosphere. 12 (7), e03683.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.3683

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Dataset
Data for: Historical floras reflect broad shifts in flowering phenology in response to a warming climate

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Citation

Alistair Auffret. Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (2021). Data for: Historical floras reflect broad shifts in flowering phenology in response to a warming climate. Swedish National Data Service. Version 1. https://doi.org/10.5878/rn49-wx18

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Data format / data structure

Numeric

Text

Creator/Principal investigator(s)

Alistair Auffret - Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences orcid

Keywords

phenology, flowering date, climate change impact

Variables

30

License

Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication (CC0 1.0)

Published: 2021-07-06
Last updated: 2022-06-30