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The great acceleration of plant phenological shifts

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Fig. 1: The world’s longest phenological time series with the associated spring temperatures.

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Acknowledgements

We are grateful to all recorders and institutions that provided phenological observations for the different long-term time series for decades and centuries. Y.V. is supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation (research grant no. 315230_192712) and the SwissForestLab (research grant no. SFL-17 P2). C.M.Z. is funded by the Ambizione grant (grant no. PZ00P3_193646).

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  1. WSL Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research, Birmensdorf, Switzerland

    Y. Vitasse & F. Baumgarten

  2. Swiss Academy of Sciences (SCNAT), Bern, Switzerland

    Y. Vitasse & T. Rutishauser

  3. Institute of Integrative Biology, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

    C. M. Zohner

  4. Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology MeteoSwiss, Zurich, Switzerland

    B. Pietragalla & R. Gehrig

  5. Key Laboratory of Land Surface Pattern and Simulation, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

    J. Dai & H. Wang

  6. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

    J. Dai

  7. China-Pakistan Joint Research Center on Earth Sciences, CAS-HEC, Islamabad, Pakistan

    J. Dai

  8. Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Osaka Prefecture University, Sakai, Japan

    Y. Aono

  9. Department of Zoology, Poznań University of Life Sciences, Poznań, Poland

    T. H. Sparks

  10. Museum of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

    T. H. Sparks

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Vitasse, Y., Baumgarten, F., Zohner, C.M. et al. The great acceleration of plant phenological shifts. Nat. Clim. Chang. 12, 300–302 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-022-01283-y

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