{"id":5954,"date":"2017-12-12T12:31:47","date_gmt":"2017-12-12T17:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=5954"},"modified":"2017-12-12T12:31:47","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T17:31:47","slug":"new-method-uses-over-200-years-of-data-to-track-early-bloomers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/new-method-uses-over-200-years-of-data-to-track-early-bloomers\/","title":{"rendered":"New method uses over 200 years of data to track early bloomers <img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5955\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5955\" class=\"wp-image-5955\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/13e524cb-8883-4e56-8986-c165ce540cdd.jpg\" alt=\"A snowdrop in bloom. Scientists from Utah State University, McGill University, Harvard University, the University of Maryland, Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory and Boston University announce a statistical estimator that extracts meaningful measures of phenological change from modern and historical plant data. (Image via Karduelis\/Wikimedia Commons CC0)\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/13e524cb-8883-4e56-8986-c165ce540cdd.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/13e524cb-8883-4e56-8986-c165ce540cdd-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5955\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A snowdrop in bloom. Scientists from Utah State University, McGill University, Harvard University, the University of Maryland, Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory and Boston University announce a statistical estimator that extracts meaningful measures of phenological change from modern and historical plant data.<br \/> <em>(Image via Karduelis\/Wikimedia Commons CC0)<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>There&#8217;s now a tool to find out whether your flowers are blooming unusually early in the season. Thanks to scores of data recorded by both researchers and citizen scientists, the new statistical estimator contrasts the time a flower bloomed over the past two centuries to observation in the present day. Study authors say that their tool can help provide new insights into how human activities have altered today&#8217;s climate and its effects on plant life cycles.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Authors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>William D. Pearse, Charles C. Davis, David W. Inouye, Richard B. Primack &amp; T. Jonathan Davies<\/p>\n<p><strong>Corresponding Canadian author:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>T. Jonathan Davies, Department of Biology, McGill University, Montr\u00e9al, QC, Email:\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:j.davies@mcgill.ca\">j.davies@mcgill.ca<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41559-017-0350-0\" target=\"_blank\">Original paper<\/a> published in <em>Nature Ecology &amp; Evolution<\/em> on November 6, 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s now a tool to find out whether your flowers are blooming unusually early in the season. Thanks to scores of data recorded by both researchers and citizen scientists, the new statistical estimator contrasts the time a flower bloomed over the past two centuries to observation in the present day. 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