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Reproductive Ecology of Flowering Plants: Patterns and Processes

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The rate at which climate change is influencing the living organisms and ecosystem is considered as a major threat to sustaining the resources that are required for the human survival in the future. Environmental impacts on the life stages and functioning of organisms have been a major area of study over the last century. The information available from these studies has provided some insights to the impact of climate change on various phenophases of organisms. Individuals in a vegetation community being fixed to a location have to withstand the environmental variation as compared to animals which had the opportunity to move to favourable environments. Thus, plant phenology has greater potential value to understand the impact of climate change on organisms. Plant phenology studies traditionally provided information from ground-based studies. However, with the use of remote sensing technology and climate models, predicting the future plant community structure and functions also started. Validation of such model results using controlled condition experiments will lead to a greater understanding of the influence of climate change on the vegetation phenology. This chapter provides a summary of published information on the impact of climate change on the plant phenology.

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Saxena, K.G., Rao, K.S. (2020). Climate Change and Vegetation Phenology. In: Tandon, R., Shivanna, K., Koul, M. (eds) Reproductive Ecology of Flowering Plants: Patterns and Processes. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-4210-7_2

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