*Edited by Xiaoyang Zhang*

Phenology, a study of animal and plant life cycle, is one of the most obvious and direct phenomena on our planet. The timing of phenological events provides vital information for climate change investigation, natural resource management, carbon sequence analysis, and crop and forest growth monitoring. This book summarizes recent progresses in the understanding of seasonal variation in animals and plants and its correlations to climate variables. With the contributions of phenological scientists worldwide, this book is subdivided into sixteen chapters and sorted in four parts: animal life cycle, plant seasonality, phenology in fruit plants, and remote sensing phenology. The chapters of this book offer a broad overview of phenology observations and climate impacts. Hopefully this book will stimulate further developments in relation to phenology monitoring, modeling and predicting.

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Phenology and Climate Change

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## Phenology and Climate Change

*Edited by Xiaoyang Zhang*

**PHENOLOGY** 

**CLIMATE CHANGE** 

Edited by **Xiaoyang Zhang** 

**AND** 

## **PHENOLOGY AND CLIMATE CHANGE**

Edited by **Xiaoyang Zhang** 

http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/2146 Edited by Xiaoyang Zhang

#### **Contributors**

Tiziana Simoniello, Rosa Coppola, Maria Francesca Macchiato, Vito Imbrenda, Maria Lanfredi, Josiane Seghieri, Frederic C. Do, Anne Fournier, Jean-Louis Devineau, Yule Roberta Ferreira Nunes, Giovana Rodrigues Da Luz, Lílian De Lima Braga, José Luiz Petri, Fernando José Hawerroth, Gabriel Berenhauser Leite, Marcelo Couto, Poliana Francescatto, María De Las Mercedes Ciciarelli, Norberto Francisco Gariglio, Marcela Weber, Damián Castro, Norma Micheloud, Maria De Fatima Barbosa Coelho, Rozilaine Aparecida Pelegrini Gomes De Faria, Maria Cristina De Figueiredo E Albuquerque, Rodrigo Aleixo Brito De Azevedo, Lenka Hajkova, Jiří Nekovář, Dáša Richterová, Věra Kožnarová, Soňa Sulovská, Ales Vavra, Alena Vondrakova, Vít Voženílek, Vasudeva Ramesh, Rajesh Gunaga, David Gray, Shinsuke Koike, Pierangelo Crucitti, Luis Marcelo Tavares de Carvalho, Thomaz Oliveira, Luciano Oliveira, Adriana Martinhago, Fausto Weimar Acerbi Junior, Rodolfo López-Gómez, Mohamed Sghaïer Achouri, Xiaoyang Zhang

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