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Impact of temperature and precipitation extremes on the flowering dates of four German wildlife shrub species

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/persons/resource/jonatan.siegmund

Siegmund,  Jonatan F.
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research;

/persons/resource/Marc.Wiedermann

Wiedermann,  Marc
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research;

/persons/resource/Donges

Donges,  Jonathan Friedemann
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research;

/persons/resource/Reik.Donner

Donner,  Reik V.
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research;

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Siegmund, J. F., Wiedermann, M., Donges, J. F., Donner, R. V. (2016): Impact of temperature and precipitation extremes on the flowering dates of four German wildlife shrub species. - Biogeosciences, 13, 19, 5541-5555.
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-13-5541-2016


Cite as: https://publications.pik-potsdam.de/pubman/item/item_21391
Abstract
Abstract. Ongoing climate change is known to cause an increase in the frequency and amplitude of local temperature and precipitation extremes in many regions of the Earth. While gradual changes in the climatological conditions have already been shown to strongly influence plant flowering dates, the question arises if and how extremes specifically impact the timing of this important phenological phase. Studying this question calls for the application of statistical methods that are tailored to the specific properties of event time series. Here, we employ event coincidence analysis, a novel statistical tool that allows assessing whether or not two types of events exhibit similar sequences of occurrences in order to systematically quantify simultaneities between meteorological extremes and the timing of the flowering of four shrub species across Germany. Our study confirms previous findings of experimental studies by highlighting the impact of early spring temperatures on the flowering of the investigated plants. However, previous studies solely based on correlation analysis do not allow deriving explicit estimates of the strength of such interdependencies without further assumptions, a gap that is closed by our analysis. In addition to direct impacts of extremely warm and cold spring temperatures, our analysis reveals statistically significant indications of an influence of temperature extremes in the autumn preceding the flowering.