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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2025

Genomics highlight an underestimation of phenology sensitivity to the urban heat island effect.

Meghan Blumstein, Sophie Webster, Robin Hopkins, David Basler, Jie Yun, David Lee Des Marais

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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6 authors.

Meghan Blumstein *Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22903.ORCID 0000-0003-0905-6265
Sophie Webster *Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138.
Robin HopkinsDepartment of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138.ORCID 0000-0002-6283-4145
David BaslerDepartment of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138.ORCID 0000-0002-4068-8319
Jie YunDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139.
David Lee Des MaraisDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139.ORCID 0000-0002-6772-6987

Funding

Harvard College | Harvard Forest, Harvard University (HF) Bullard FellowshipMassachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Lab FundNational Science Foundation (NSF) PGRP
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The phenological timing of leaf out in temperate forests is a critical transition point each year that alters the global climate system, which in turn, feeds back to plants, driving leaf out to occur nearly 3 d earlier per decade as temperatures rise. To improve predictions of leaf out timing, urban heat islands (UHIs) or densely developed areas that are hotter than surrounding undeveloped regions are often used to approximate warming via space-for-time substitutions (i.e., rural-to-urban temperature gradients). However, more than just environment changes along these gradients-urban regions are highly managed systems with limited-to-no within species diversity. We demonstrate here that recent observations that UHI gradients underpredict leaf out response to temperature when compared to temperature gradients through time is likely because both genetics and environment are changing across rural-to-urban gradients, whereas only environment is changing through time. We tested this hypothesis using genomic, phenological, and temperature data of northern red oak (

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GenomicsHot TemperaturePlant LeavesQuercusCitiesClimate ChangeForestsgenomicsglobal climate changemodelingphenologytemperature response

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PMCPMC11962471

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