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Phenology: An Integrative Environmental Science

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In this chapter we provide a brief overview of plant phenology modeling, focusing on mechanistic phenological models. After a brief history of plant phenology modeling, we present the different models which have been described in the literature so far and highlight the main differences between them, i.e. their degree of complexity and the different types of response function to temperature they use. We also discuss the different approaches used to build and parameterize such models. Finally, we provide a few examples of applications mechanistic plant phenological models have been successfully used for, such as frost hardiness modeling, tree growth modeling, tree species distribution modeling and temperature reconstruction of the last millennium.

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IC was financially supported by project SCION (ANR-05-BDIV-009) of the French National Research Agency. KK was financially supported by project DynTerra (project no. 5238821) of the Knowledge Base of the Dutch Ministry of Economy, Agriculture and Innovation and the large-scale integrative project MOTIVE (FP7 contract no. 226544). HH was financially supported by the Academy of Finland (project 122194). The authors are most grateful to Jacques Régnière for his thorough review and his corrections which greatly improved the quality of this chapter.

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Chuine, I., de Cortazar-Atauri, I.G., Kramer, K., Hänninen, H. (2013). Plant Development Models. In: Schwartz, M. (eds) Phenology: An Integrative Environmental Science. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6925-0_15

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