Growth and development of cereal crops are linked to weather, day length and growing
degree-days (GDDs) which make them responsive to the specific environments in specific …

The Poaceae family comprises over 12 000 wind‐pollinated species, which release large
amounts of pollen into the atmosphere. Poaceae pollen is currently regarded as the leading …

The Mediterranean basin is the largest world area having specific climatic conditions
suitable for olive cultivation, which has a great socio-economic importance in the region …

Many fruit and nut trees must fulfill a chilling requirement to break their winter dormancy and
resume normal growth in spring. Several models exist for quantifying winter chill, and …

Many biological processes produce only one quantitative outcome per year, resulting from
temperatures and precipitation during hundreds of days leading up to the event. Traditional …

Understanding the impact of the warming trend on phenological stages and phases of cotton
(Gossypium hirsutum L.) in central and lower Punjab, Pakistan, may assist in optimizing crop …

Phenological development of crops has been extensively studied in field experiments but
less so at larger scales for which data availability is often limited. To what extent the spatio …

Abstract Analysis of airborne pollen concentrations provides valuable information on plant
phenology and is thus a useful tool in agriculture—for predicting harvests in crops such as …

Airborne pollen monitoring is an effective tool for studying the reproductive phenology of
anemophilous plants, an important bioindicator of plant behavior. Recent decades have …

The increase in air temperature associated to climate change is expected to affect olive
(Olea europaea L.) tree fructification. To determine the potential effects of global warming on …