Delayed autumn phenology in the Northern Hemisphere is related to change in both climate and spring phenology

© 2016 John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

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Veröffentlicht in:Global change biology. - 1999. - 22(2016), 11 vom: 15. Nov., Seite 3702-3711
1. Verfasser: Liu, Qiang (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Fu, Yongshuo H, Zhu, Zaichun, Liu, Yongwen, Liu, Zhuo, Huang, Mengtian, Janssens, Ivan A, Piao, Shilong
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2016
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Global change biology
Schlagworte:Journal Article Normalize Differenced Vegetation Index autumn phenology climate change end of growing season spring phenology
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Zusammenfassung:© 2016 John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
The timing of the end of the vegetation growing season (EOS) plays a key role in terrestrial ecosystem carbon and nutrient cycles. Autumn phenology is, however, still poorly understood, and previous studies generally focused on few species or were very limited in scale. In this study, we applied four methods to extract EOS dates from NDVI records between 1982 and 2011 for the Northern Hemisphere, and determined the temporal correlations between EOS and environmental factors (i.e., temperature, precipitation and insolation), as well as the correlation between spring and autumn phenology, using partial correlation analyses. Overall, we observed a trend toward later EOS in ~70% of the pixels in Northern Hemisphere, with a mean rate of 0.18 ± 0.38 days yr-1 . Warming preseason temperature was positively associated with the rate of EOS in most of our study area, except for arid/semi-arid regions, where the precipitation sum played a dominant positive role. Interestingly, increased preseason insolation sum might also lead to a later date of EOS. In addition to the climatic effects on EOS, we found an influence of spring vegetation green-up dates on EOS, albeit biome dependent. Our study, therefore, suggests that both environmental factors and spring phenology should be included in the modeling of EOS to improve the predictions of autumn phenology as well as our understanding of the global carbon and nutrient balances
Beschreibung:Date Completed 14.09.2017
Date Revised 02.12.2018
published: Print-Electronic
Citation Status MEDLINE
ISSN:1365-2486
DOI:10.1111/gcb.13311