caa a22 4500 467917825 CHVBK 20180406152908.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e20060801xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10584-005-9038-6 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10584-005-9038-6 Spring Phenophases in Recent Decades Over Eastern China and Its Possible Link to Climate Changes [Elektronische Daten] [Jingyun Zheng, Quansheng Ge, Zhixin Hao, Wei-Chyung Wang] In light of the observed climate changes in recent decades over eastern China, we studied the changes in spring phenophases of woody plants observed at 16-stations during 1963-1996, and explored the possible link between the spring phenophases changes and climate changes before the phenophase onset. It is found that, in the region north of 33∘N (including Northeast, North China and the lower reaches of the Huaihe River), the phenophase advanced 1.1-4.3 days per decade for early spring and 1.4-5.4 days per decade for late spring, but in the eastern part of the southwest China it was dealyed by 2.9-6.9 days per decade in early spring and 2.4-6.2 days per decade in late spring. One outstanding feature is identified in Guangzhou in south China, where significant advance of 7.5 days per decade in early spring and delay of 4.6 days per decade in late spring were detected. Statistically siginficant correlation was found between the changes of spring phenophase and the temperatures of one or several months before the phenophase onset. The relationship between the trend of phenophase change and temperature change was highly non-linear (more sensitivity to cooling than to warming) and reached an asymptote 0.5∘C per decade, which may have implication in the responses of the ecosystem in a future global warming scenario. In addition, we also examined the link between the spring phenophase, and length and mean temperature of the growing season, and the analyses suggested that they were highly correlated as well. Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2006 Zheng Jingyun Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100101, Beijing, China aut Ge Quansheng Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100101, Beijing, China aut Hao Zhixin Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100101, Beijing, China aut Wang Wei-Chyung Atmospheric Sciences Research Center, State University of New York, 12203, Albany, NY, USA aut Climatic Change Kluwer Academic Publishers 77/3-4(2006-08-01), 449-462 0165-0009 77:3-4<449 2006 77 10584 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-005-9038-6 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-005-9038-6 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Zheng Jingyun Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100101, Beijing, China aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Ge Quansheng Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100101, Beijing, China aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Hao Zhixin Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100101, Beijing, China aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Wang Wei-Chyung Atmospheric Sciences Research Center, State University of New York, 12203, Albany, NY, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Climatic Change Kluwer Academic Publishers 77/3-4(2006-08-01), 449-462 0165-0009 77:3-4<449 2006 77 10584 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer