Category Archives: Weather and Climate

Niobrara River Ponderosa Forests Burned

Posted on July 24, 2012 by prairiebotanist

This is a brief post on the large fire (>50,000 acres) along the Niobrara River in Nebraska. See Chris Helzer’s excellent Prairie Ecologist blog for amazing photos on the ground in the aftermath of the fires at TNC’s Niobrara Valley Preserve. … Continue reading →

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Sensitivity of Phenology to Temperature and Precipitation are Associated

Posted on July 16, 2012 by prairiebotanist

This is pretty cool. The plot below shows our sensitivity indices (standardized) for >250 species plotted against one another with a one-to-one line. I am anxious to figure out if there are any particular functional groups that tend to fall … Continue reading →

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Flowering time and warming

Posted on July 16, 2012 by prairiebotanist

It is a prevailing view that species that flower late have  flowering dates that are less sensitive to warming that species that flower early (See Wolkovich et al. 2012, Nature). If I do a quick analysis of the earliest and latest … Continue reading →

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