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The rise of phenology with climate change: an evaluation of IJB publications
- Source :
- International journal of biometeorology. 61(Suppl 1)
- Publication Year :
- 2017
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Abstract
- In recent decades, phenology has become an important tool by which to measure both the impact of climate change on ecosystems and the feedback of ecosystems to the climate system. However, there has been little attempt to date to systematically quantify the increase in the number of scientific publications with a focus on phenology and climate change. In order to partially address this issue, we examined the number of articles (original papers, reviews and short communications) containing the terms 'phenology' and 'climate change' in the title, abstract or keywords, published in the International Journal of Biometeorology in the 60 years since its inception in 1957. We manually inspected all issues prior to 1987 for the search terms and subsequently used the search facility on the Web of Science online database. The overall number of articles published per decade remained relatively constant (255-378) but rose rapidly to 1053 in the most recent decade (2007-2016), accompanied by an increase (41-172) in the number of articles containing the search terms. A number of factors may have contributed to this rise, including the recognition of the value of phenology as an indicator of climate change and the initiation in 2010 of a series of conferences focusing on phenology which subsequently led to two special issues of the journal. The word 'phenology' was in use from the first issue, whereas 'climate change' only emerged in 1987 and peaked in 2014. New technologies such as satellite remote sensing and the internet led to an expansion of and greater access to a growing reservoir of phenological information. The application of phenological data included determining the impact of warming of phenophases, predicting wine quality and the pollen season, demonstrating the potential for mismatch to occur and both reconstructing and forecasting climate. Even though this analysis was limited to one journal, it is likely to be indicative of a similar trend across other scientific publications.
- Subjects :
- Atmospheric Science
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences
Emerging technologies
Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
Climate Change
Climate change
Biometeorology
01 natural sciences
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Meteorology
Animals
Ecosystem
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
030203 arthritis & rheumatology
Ecology
business.industry
Phenology
Environmental resource management
Online database
Plants
Search terms
Geography
Climatology
Satellite remote sensing
Seasons
Periodicals as Topic
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14321254
- Volume :
- 61
- Issue :
- Suppl 1
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- International journal of biometeorology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....daef8f9a73a464399c0875b9336163d1