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From the perspectives of natural landscape dynamics, plant phenology is the study of the timing (and quantity) of annually recurring plant growth and reproductive phenomena, as well as the drivers of these events associated with endogenous and exogenous forces. Conventional plant phenology usually serves as time steps and markers of vegetation growth and reproductive processes within a year and among different years, while modern plant phenology can serve as a key link between climate change and biogeochemical cycles at seasonal and interannual scales.
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Chen, X. (2017). Plant Phenology of Natural Landscape Dynamics. In: Spatiotemporal Processes of Plant Phenology. SpringerBriefs in Geography. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-49839-2_1
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