The word comes from the Greek “phaino” (to show or appear) and “logos” (to study). Phenology works because certain events ...

Researcher Ann Raiho measures sunlight interacting with yellow Coreopsis gigantea flowers during field work in the Jack and ...

The word "phenology" comes from the Greek word "phaino," which means to show, to bring to light or make appear. Because the development of both plants and insects is temperature-dependent ...

If you are here because you scanned a QR code on a mysterious object, you have stumbled upon a microclimate sensor of the Helsinki Microclimate Observatory (HELMO) or a vegetation camera of the ...

However, accurately detecting forest phenology—particularly the timing of photosynthetic activity—has long been a challenge. Traditional vegetation indices like normalized difference ...

Crimmins, director of the USA National Phenology Network, a plant ecologist and an associate professor at the University of Arizona, where the network is based. Her ask: Become an “everyday ...

More information: Daijiang Li et al, Extreme weather events have strong but different impacts on plant and insect phenology, Nature Climate Change (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41558-025-02248-7 Journal ...

Flowers and trees bloomed up to two weeks earlier than normal, suggesting the allergy season will likely be longer and more ...

As scientists strive to improve forecasts of how plant and animal phenology responds to global change, it is important to include extreme weather events, Li and his co-authors say. Li's team found ...