Phenology: An Integrative Environmental Science: Edition 3

Mark D. Schwartz

Jan 2025 · Springer Nature

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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.

About the author

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).

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