Special Issue, Phenology 2010 Conference, Dublin, Ireland

摘要

Changes in the timing of phenological events may be one of the earliest observed responses to rapid global climate warming and therefore provides a robust mechanism by which to demonstrate the impact of rising temperature on our environment. This special issue resulted from an international conference on phenology entitled “Phenology 2010: climate change impacts and adaptation” (http://www.tcd.ie/Botany/phenology/2010/), held in Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, in June 2010. The conference took a multidisciplinary approach to discuss advances in phenology research and brought together experts from around the world in the fields of plant and animal phenology from both terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. There were four research themes; the first, an overarching theme on climate change (including modelling) with the remaining three underpinning themes on synchrony/asynchrony, genetic adaptation, and biodiversity. The conference brought together 130 delegates from 24 countries around the world and featured 72 oral presentations and 42 poster presentations. “Phenology 2010” aimed to be the first in a series of biannual phenology conferences to be held at various locations. Dist. Professor Mark D. Schwartz, will host the next in the series during September 2012, at his home institution, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA.