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| Title |
Record-Breaking Early Flowering in the Eastern United States
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| Published in |
PLOS ONE, January 2013
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| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0053788 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Elizabeth R. Ellwood, Stanley A. Temple, Richard B. Primack, Nina L. Bradley, Charles C. Davis |
| Abstract |
Flowering times are well-documented indicators of the ecological effects of climate change and are linked to numerous ecosystem processes and trophic interactions. Dozens of studies have shown that flowering times for many spring-flowering plants have become earlier as a result of recent climate change, but it is uncertain if flowering times will continue to advance as temperatures rise. Here, we used long-term flowering records initiated by Henry David Thoreau in 1852 and Aldo Leopold in 1935 to investigate this question. Our analyses demonstrate that record-breaking spring temperatures in 2010 and 2012 in Massachusetts, USA, and 2012 in Wisconsin, USA, resulted in the earliest flowering times in recorded history for dozens of spring-flowering plants of the eastern United States. These dramatic advances in spring flowering were successfully predicted by historical relationships between flowering and spring temperature spanning up to 161 years of ecological change. These results demonstrate that numerous temperate plant species have yet to show obvious signs of physiological constraints on phenological advancement in the face of climate change. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 68 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 28 | 41% |
| Canada | 4 | 6% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 3% |
| Mexico | 2 | 3% |
| South Africa | 1 | 1% |
| Australia | 1 | 1% |
| Sweden | 1 | 1% |
| Puerto Rico | 1 | 1% |
| Spain | 1 | 1% |
| Other | 0 | 0% |
| Unknown | 27 | 40% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 45 | 66% |
| Scientists | 14 | 21% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 8 | 12% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 1% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 255 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 9 | 4% |
| Germany | 2 | <1% |
| Canada | 2 | <1% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | <1% |
| Spain | 1 | <1% |
| Brazil | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 239 | 94% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 54 | 21% |
| Researcher | 51 | 20% |
| Student > Master | 26 | 10% |
| Student > Bachelor | 22 | 9% |
| Professor > Associate Professor | 16 | 6% |
| Other | 43 | 17% |
| Unknown | 43 | 17% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 97 | 38% |
| Environmental Science | 51 | 20% |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences | 17 | 7% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 11 | 4% |
| Social Sciences | 6 | 2% |
| Other | 23 | 9% |
| Unknown | 50 | 20% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 199. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 19 March 2019.
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#204,712
of 25,918,061 outputs
Outputs from PLOS ONE
#3,020
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#1,316
of 295,649 outputs
Outputs of similar age from PLOS ONE
#50
of 4,865 outputs
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