ArticleeLife2018
Global warming reduces leaf-out and flowering synchrony among individuals.
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- Single-plant-omics reveals the cascade of transcriptional changes during the vegetative-to-reproductive transition.The Plant cell · 2024Article
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- Winter warming offsets one half of the spring warming effects on leaf unfolding.Global change biology · 2022Article
- Contrasting phenology responses to climate warming across the northern extra-tropics.Fundamental research · 2022Article
- Simultaneous selection on vegetative and reproductive phenology in a perennial herb.Ecology and evolution · 2022Article
- Inter-Individual Budburst Variation inFrontiers in plant science · 2022Article
- Experimental warming differentially affects vegetative and reproductive phenology of tundra plants.Nature communications · 2021Article
- Is forest fecundity resistant to drought? Results from an 18-yr rainfall-reduction experiment.The New phytologist · 2020Article
- Phenological responses of temperate and boreal trees to warming depend on ambient spring temperatures, leaf habit, and geographic range.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020Article
- From theory to experiments for testing the proximate mechanisms of mast seeding: an agenda for an experimental ecology.Ecology letters · 2020Review
- Climate warming disrupts mast seeding and its fitness benefits in European beech.Nature plants · 2020Article
- De novo sequencing of the transcriptome reveals regulators of the floral transition in Fargesia macclureana (Poaceae).BMC genomics · 2019Article
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Abstract
The temporal overlap of phenological stages, phenological synchrony, crucially influences ecosystem functioning. For flowering, among-individual synchrony influences gene flow. For leaf-out, it affects interactions with herbivores and competing plants. If individuals differ in their reaction to the ongoing change in global climate, this should affect population-level synchrony. Here, we use climate-manipulation experiments, Pan-European long-term (>15 years) observations, and common garden monitoring data on up to 72 woody and herbaceous species to study the effects of increasing temperatures on the extent of leaf-out and flowering synchrony within populations. Warmer temperatures reduce in situ leaf-out and flowering synchrony by up to 55%, and experiments on European beech provide a mechanism for how individual differences in day-length and/or chilling sensitivity may explain this finding. The rapid loss of reproductive and vegetative synchrony in European plants predicts changes in their gene flow and trophic interactions, but community-wide consequences remain largely unknown. Editorial note: This article has been through an editorial process in which the authors decide how to respond to the issues raised during peer review. The Reviewing Editor's assessment is that all the issues have been addressed (see decision letter).
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