About this book
Phenology refers to recurring plant and animal life cycle stages, such as leafing and flowering, maturation of agricultural plants, emergence of insects, and migration of birds. It is also the study of these recurring events, especially their timing and relationships with weather and climate. Phenological phenomena all give a ready measure of the environment as viewed by the associated organism and are thus ideal indicators of the impact of local and global changes in weather and climate on the earth's biosphere.
Assessing our changing world is a complex task that requires close cooperation from experts in biology, climatology, ecology, geography, oceanography, remote sensing, and other areas. Like its two predecessors, this third edition of Phenology is a synthesis of current phenological knowledge, designed as a primer on the field for global change and general scientists, students, and interested members of the public. With updated and new contributions from over sixty phenological experts, covering data collection, current research, methods, and applications, it demonstrates the accomplishments, progress over the last decade, and future potential of phenology as an integrative environmental science.
Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction
Part I. Phenological Data, Networks, and Research
Chapter 2. East Asia
Chapter 3. Australia and New Zealand
Chapter 4. Europe
Chapter 5. North America
Chapter 6. A Review of Reproductive Plant Phenology in South and Central America: New Perspectives
Chapter 7. Africa
Part II. Phenologies of Selected Bioclimatic Zones
Chapter 8. Tropical Dry Climates
Chapter 9. Mediterranean Phenology
Chapter 10. Phenologies of North American Grasslands and Grasses
Chapter 11. Mesic Temperate Deciduous Forest Phenology
Chapter 12. Phenology at High Latitudes
Chapter 13. Phenology at High Altitudes
Part III. Phenological Models and Techniques
Chapter 14. Plant Phenology Models
Chapter 15. Animal Life Cycle Models (Poikilotherms)
Chapter 16. A Low Temperature and Photoperiod Multiplicative Model for Predicting Autumn Plant Phenology
Chapter 17. Weather Station Siting: Effects on Phenological Models
Chapter 18. Herbarium Specimens as Sources of Phenological Data
Part IV. Sensor-Derived Phenology
Chapter 19. Remote Sensing of Land Surface Phenology: Progress, Challenges, Prospects
Chapter 20. Near-Surface Sensor-Derived Phenology
Part V. Phenologies of Selected Lifeforms
Chapter 21. Birds
Part VI. Applications Of Phenology
Chapter 22. Land Surface Phenology in Global Change Studies
Chapter 23. Cumulative and Legacy Effects of Droughts on Global Photosynthetic Phenology
Chapter 24. Phenology and Evapotranspiration
Chapter 25. Phenology and Terroir Heard Through the Grapevine
Chapter 26. Phenology and Aerobiology
Chapter 27. Phenology in Higher Education
Customer Reviews
Biography
Mark D. Schwartz is a synoptic climatologist and phenoclimatologist who received his Ph.D. from the University of Kansas and is a distinguished professor of Geography at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. His main research interests include plant phenology-lower atmosphere interactions during the onsets of spring and autumn in mid latitudes, detecting climatic change, and assessing vegetation condition with remote sensing imagery. Prof. Schwartz has received eight USA National Science Foundation grants, authored over one hundred peer-reviewed publications, mostly in journals such as Nature, Global Change Biology, Journal of Climate, International Journal of Climatology, Remote Sensing of Environment, and International Journal of Biometeorology, as well as edited the first and second editions of this book. Prof. Schwartz is also the co-founder of the USA National Phenology Network (USA-NPN).
