Phenology Subdiscipline of agriculture, a science that treats relations between climate and periodic biological phenomena that are related to or caused by climatic conditions, such as the budding of trees and the migration of birds.
Phenology(8) A branch of science dealing with the relations between climate and periodic biological phenomena, such as bird migration or plant flowering. Photodissociation(6) ...
phenology The study of periodic biological phenomena with relation to climate, particularly seasonal changes. These phenomena can be used to interpret local seasons and the climatic zones.
Meteorologists, soil scientists, agricultural hydrologists, and agronomists are persons concerned with studying the effects of weather and climate on plant distribution, crop yield, water-use efficiency, phenology of plant and animal development, ...
showing elapsed time between plant or crop development stages through its life cycle. The unit of time may be in calendar units such as days or in other measures such as thermal time (growing degree-days), fraction of life cycle, etc. See phenology.
See also: Degree, Current, Ocean, Radiation, Period
 
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