Dear colleagues,
We would like to draw your attention to the session dedicated to
CL2.4
Shifting Seasons: Phenological evidence from observations,
reconstructions, measurements and models (co-sponsored by PAGES &
ILEAPS)
at European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2010, 02 May 2010 - 07
May 2010, Vienna, Austria.
ABSTRACT DEADLINE is 18th January 2010 (or 4th December 2009 for
support applications,http://meetings.copernicus.org/egu2010/support_and_distinction/financial_support.html)
.
Convener: T. Rutishauser ([email protected]).
Co-Conveners: A. Menzel ([email protected]), J. Weltzin ([email protected]
)
Submit your abstract here:
http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2010/session/1871
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* Confirmed contributions:
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Alison Donnelly (Centre for the Environment, Trinity College Dublin)
"Impacts of rising temperatures on plant and animal phenology in
Ireland"
Andrew Richardson (Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology,
Harvard University):
"Observing plant phenology from space: what do satellite data tell us
about what is really happening on the ground?"
The IPCC AR4 report from 2007 presented unequivocal evidence of
regional to global-scale change in seasonality, as evidenced by plant
and animal phenological records. Observations from all continents and
several oceans now show that many physical and biological natural
systems are being affected by regional climate change, particularly
increases in temperature. To allow a consistent global analysis, AR4
focused only on significant trends from traditional phenological
observations during the 20-year period between 1970 and 1990. However,
there has been much additional research in recent years that lends new
insights into spatial and temporal patterns of interrelationships
between climate change and organisms, with attendant impacts on carbon
dynamics, species interactions, biogeochemistry, etc. This new
research has focused on novel investigations of data, and the
development and application of new methods and techniques for
investigation of phenology. However, robust identification of long-
term centennial phenological trends and of systematic decadal
fluctuations in biotic and abiotic variables requires compilation and
analysis of much longer time series from historical evidence.
Integration of historical and contemporary data, on global scales,
will be required to reliably understand the processes underlying
phenological dynamics. This session would also serve as an opportunity
to discuss and strategize on the development of a global network of
detailed regional and seasonal observations of phenology.
Therefore, we invite contributions with cross-disciplinary
perspectives that present seasonality changes based on recent plant
and animal phenological observations, historical documentary sources,
or seasonality measurements using climate data, remote sensing, flux
measurements or modelling studies. We seek contributions across
spatial and temporal scales that compare and integrate seasonality
changes across methods and that advance our understanding of
seasonality response to long-term climate change and single extreme
events.
Feel free to contact one of us and inform other colleagues and students.
We hope to see you in Vienna in 2010,
This, Annette and Jake
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Further links for detailed information and abstract submission:
* CL2.4 Information and Abstract Submission:
http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2010/session/1871
* General Information about Submission of Abstracts:
http://meetings.copernicus.org/egu2010/abstract_management/index.html
* Deadlines and Milestones:
http://meetings.copernicus.org/egu2010/information/deadlines_and_milestones.html
* General information on the EGU 2010 meeting
http://meetings.copernicus.org/egu2010/home.html
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This Rutishauser
University of Bern, Institute of Geography
Research Groups in Climatology & Meteorology (Klimet)
and Phenology & Topoclimatology (Phenotop)
Hallerstrasse 12, CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland
Phone: +41 (0)31 631'88'83, Fax: +41 (0)31 631'85'11
[email protected], http://www.geography.unibe.ch/
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Unitat d’Ecofisiologia CSIC-CREAF
CREAF (Center for Ecological Research and Forestry Applications)
Edifici C, 08193 Bellaterra, Catalunya, Spain
[email protected], http://www.creaf.uab.es/
http://www.giub.unibe.ch/~rutis/
