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Climate change studies have mostly focused on temperate fruit trees. A few sub-tropical fruit trees have attracted interest from researchers, since crops such as citrus, avocado and mango are economically important in places in the southern United States and some countries in southern Europe and Asia. Fruit tree species studied in the subtropics in relation to phenological changes due to climate change include many citrus species (Chang 2002), apple (Grab and Craparo 2011; Petrí et al. 2012), mango (Sthapit et al. 2012), litchi and macadamia (Olesen 2011). Tubiello et al. (2002) simulated the effects of current and projected future climate on ‘Valencia’ oranges across the southern United States.
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Ramírez, F., Kallarackal, J. (2015). Phenology of Sub-tropical Fruit Trees. 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_7
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