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The word phenology emanates from the Greek word fainó, meaning ‘I reveal’. Phenology is the study of periodic biological events, such as bud break, flushing, flowering and fruit development, closely regulated by climate and seasonal changes, which affect fruit trees among other plants (Cautín and Agustí 2005). Higher temperatures generated as a consequence of global warming are responsible for a reduction or increase in phenological cycles in trees (Fig. 4.1).
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Ramírez, F., Kallarackal, J. (2015). The Effect of Increasing Temperature on Phenology. In: Responses of Fruit Trees to Global Climate Change. SpringerBriefs in Plant Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14200-5_4
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