Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The scientific study of periodic biological phenomena, such as flowering, breeding, and migration, in relation to climatic conditions.
- noun The timing of a periodic biological phenomenon in relation to climatic conditions.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun That branch of applied meteorology which treats of the influence of climate on the recurrence of the annual phenomena of animal and vegetable life.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Biol.) The science of the relations between climate and periodic biological phenomena, as the migrations and breeding of birds, the flowering and fruiting of plants, etc.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun biology The study of the
effect ofclimate onperiodic biological phenomena .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Hydrology, the researchers said they analyzed more than 25,000 long-term phenology trends for
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Hydrology, the research gathers together more than 25,000 long-term phenology trends for 726 species of plants and animals.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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Hydrology, the research gathers together more than 25,000 long-term phenology trends for 726 species of plants and animals.
D Mag - News 2010
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Hydrology, the researchers said they analyzed more than 25,000 long-term phenology trends for
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Hydrology, the researchers said they analyzed more than 25,000 long-term phenology trends for
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Hydrology, the research gathers together more than 25,000 long-term phenology trends for 726 species of plants and animals.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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The study of the seasons, known as phenology, is important for measuring how the weather is changing in Britain with global warming.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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The study of the seasons, known as phenology, is important for measuring how the weather is changing in Britain with global warming.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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The timing of seasonal biological events, otherwise known as phenology, has been tracked in some places for centuries.
Mother Earth News Latest 10 Articles By Janet Larsen 2010
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The timing of seasonal biological events, otherwise known as phenology, has been tracked in some places for centuries.
Mother Earth News Latest 10 Articles By Janet Larsen 2010
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Phenology is nature’s calendar—when cherry trees bloom, when a robin builds its nest and when leaves turn color in the fall.
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Phenology is the study of periodic events in biological life cycles and how these are influenced by seasonal and interannual variations in climate, as well as habitat factors (such as elevation).
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mollusque commented on the word phenology
The study of the timing of recurring natural phenomena such as migrations or spring flowering. A formerly obscure science now important for detecting effects of climate change.
April 9, 2008
john commented on the word phenology
"Phenology is the science of natural occurrences, yearly events like the first snow, the first blooming of hepatica and the arrival of the first whippoorwill. Keeping diaries of such occurrences was a hobby of counts and lords in Europe, and there are records in Kyoto, Japan, of the flowering of cherry blossom trees dating back 900 years. Among the most notable American phenological records were those kept by Thomas Jefferson at Monticello and Henry David Thoreau at Walden Pond."
The New York Times, Weather History , by Anthony DePalma, September 15, 2008
September 16, 2008
reesetee commented on the word phenology
Interesting--thanks, John. This is big in birding, but I never knew it had a specific term to describe it.
September 16, 2008
qms commented on the word phenology
The changes are there for all to see
That poets praise as trite policy.
The seasons are rife
With the cycles of life
So whence comes the need of phenology?
April 27, 2019