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Title: Cryptic phenology in plants: case studies, implications and recommendations

Abstract

Abstract Plant phenology—the timing of cyclic or recurrent biological events in plants—offers insight into the ecology, evolution, and seasonality of plant‐mediated ecosystem processes. Traditionally studied phenologies are readily apparent, such as flowering events, germination timing, and season‐initiating budbreak. However, a broad range of phenologies that are fundamental to the ecology and evolution of plants, and to global biogeochemical cycles and climate change predictions, have been neglected because they are “cryptic”—that is, hidden from view (e.g., root production) or difficult to distinguish and interpret based on common measurements at typical scales of examination (e.g., leaf turnover in evergreen forests). We illustrate how capturing cryptic phenology can advance scientific understanding with two case studies: wood phenology in a deciduous forest of the northeastern USA and leaf phenology in tropical evergreen forests of Amazonia. Drawing on these case studies and other literature, we argue that conceptualizing and characterizing cryptic plant phenology is needed for understanding and accurate prediction at many scales from organisms to ecosystems. We recommend avenues of empirical and modeling research to accelerate discovery of cryptic phenological patterns, to understand their causes and consequences, and to represent these processes in terrestrial biosphere models.

Authors:
 [1];  [2];  [3];  [4];  [5];  [3]; ORCiD logo [3];  [6]; ORCiD logo [7]; ORCiD logo [8]; ORCiD logo [9];  [10]; ORCiD logo [8]; ORCiD logo [8];  [11];  [12];  [3]
  1. Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ (United States); Brown Univ., Providence, RI (United States)
  2. Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ (United States); Univ. of Technology Sydney Ultimo, NSW (Australia)
  3. Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ (United States)
  4. Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States); The Univ. of Hong Kong, Pokfulam (Hong Kong)
  5. Univ. of Oxford, Oxford (United Kingdom); Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)
  6. Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Manaus, AM (Brazil)
  7. Lab des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, Gif sur Yvette (France)
  8. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
  9. McMaster Univ., Hamilton, ON (Canada)
  10. Lab des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, Gif sur Yvette (France); Tsinghua Univ., Beijing (China)
  11. Univ. of California, Irvine, CA (United States)
  12. Smithsonian Institution's Forest Global Earth Observatory & Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Edgewater, MD (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER)
OSTI Identifier:
1545235
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1565989
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC05-00OR22725; SC0008383
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Global Change Biology
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 25; Journal Issue: 11; Journal ID: ISSN 1354-1013
Publisher:
Wiley
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
59 BASIC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES; climate change; plant ecology; plant physiology; seasonality; terrestrial biosphere models; dynamic global vegetation models; whole plant biology

Citation Formats

Albert, Loren P., Restrepo‐Coupe, Natalia, Smith, Marielle N., Wu, Jin, Chavana‐Bryant, Cecilia, Prohaska, Neill, Taylor, Tyeen C., Martins, Giordane A., Ciais, Philippe, Mao, Jiafu, Arain, M. Altaf, Li, Wei, Shi, Xiaoying, Ricciuto, Daniel M., Huxman, Travis E., McMahon, Sean M., and Saleska, Scott R. Cryptic phenology in plants: case studies, implications and recommendations. United States: N. p., 2019. Web. doi:10.1111/gcb.14759.
Albert, Loren P., Restrepo‐Coupe, Natalia, Smith, Marielle N., Wu, Jin, Chavana‐Bryant, Cecilia, Prohaska, Neill, Taylor, Tyeen C., Martins, Giordane A., Ciais, Philippe, Mao, Jiafu, Arain, M. Altaf, Li, Wei, Shi, Xiaoying, Ricciuto, Daniel M., Huxman, Travis E., McMahon, Sean M., & Saleska, Scott R. Cryptic phenology in plants: case studies, implications and recommendations. United States. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14759
Albert, Loren P., Restrepo‐Coupe, Natalia, Smith, Marielle N., Wu, Jin, Chavana‐Bryant, Cecilia, Prohaska, Neill, Taylor, Tyeen C., Martins, Giordane A., Ciais, Philippe, Mao, Jiafu, Arain, M. Altaf, Li, Wei, Shi, Xiaoying, Ricciuto, Daniel M., Huxman, Travis E., McMahon, Sean M., and Saleska, Scott R. Thu . "Cryptic phenology in plants: case studies, implications and recommendations". United States. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14759. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1545235.
@article{osti_1545235,
title = {Cryptic phenology in plants: case studies, implications and recommendations},
author = {Albert, Loren P. and Restrepo‐Coupe, Natalia and Smith, Marielle N. and Wu, Jin and Chavana‐Bryant, Cecilia and Prohaska, Neill and Taylor, Tyeen C. and Martins, Giordane A. and Ciais, Philippe and Mao, Jiafu and Arain, M. Altaf and Li, Wei and Shi, Xiaoying and Ricciuto, Daniel M. and Huxman, Travis E. and McMahon, Sean M. and Saleska, Scott R.},
abstractNote = {Abstract Plant phenology—the timing of cyclic or recurrent biological events in plants—offers insight into the ecology, evolution, and seasonality of plant‐mediated ecosystem processes. Traditionally studied phenologies are readily apparent, such as flowering events, germination timing, and season‐initiating budbreak. However, a broad range of phenologies that are fundamental to the ecology and evolution of plants, and to global biogeochemical cycles and climate change predictions, have been neglected because they are “cryptic”—that is, hidden from view (e.g., root production) or difficult to distinguish and interpret based on common measurements at typical scales of examination (e.g., leaf turnover in evergreen forests). We illustrate how capturing cryptic phenology can advance scientific understanding with two case studies: wood phenology in a deciduous forest of the northeastern USA and leaf phenology in tropical evergreen forests of Amazonia. Drawing on these case studies and other literature, we argue that conceptualizing and characterizing cryptic plant phenology is needed for understanding and accurate prediction at many scales from organisms to ecosystems. We recommend avenues of empirical and modeling research to accelerate discovery of cryptic phenological patterns, to understand their causes and consequences, and to represent these processes in terrestrial biosphere models.},
doi = {10.1111/gcb.14759},
journal = {Global Change Biology},
number = 11,
volume = 25,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Jul 25 00:00:00 EDT 2019},
month = {Thu Jul 25 00:00:00 EDT 2019}
}

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Ror2 signaling regulates Golgi structure and transport through IFT20 for tumor invasiveness
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Onset of spring starting earlier across the Northern Hemisphere
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Phenology and seasonality modeling
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Wood Formation in Trees
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Global carbon budget 2014
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journal, January 2013


Species' traits predict phenological responses to climate change in butterflies
text, January 2011

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The emission factor of volatile isoprenoids: stress, acclimation, and developmental responses
journal, January 2010


Temperate and boreal forest tree phenology: from organ-scale processes to terrestrial ecosystem models
text, January 2016


Seasonal patterns of carbohydrate storage in four tropical tree species
journal, May 2002


Phenological variation of leaf functional traits within species
journal, January 2016


Wood phenology, not carbon input, controls the interannual variability of wood growth in a temperate oak forest
journal, November 2015

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  • New Phytologist, Vol. 210, Issue 2
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A Phenological Record for Sauk and Dane Counties, Wisconsin, 1935-1945
journal, January 1947

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journal, January 2012


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journal, January 2014

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Biomass Inventories at Harvard Forest EMS Tower since 1993
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