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This chapter deals with both traditional aspects of phenology in agriculture (length of growing season and different applications of phenological data in agriculture) as well as modern aspects, which focus on impacts of climate change on phenophases of field crops and fruit trees.

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Chmielewski, FM. (2003). Phenology and Agriculture. In: Schwartz, M.D. (eds) Phenology: An Integrative Environmental Science. Tasks for Vegetation Science, vol 39. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0632-3_31

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