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 either above or below the line (be more temperature or precipitation responsive). Also, as one moves up and to the right, the mean first flowering day of the year increases.
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 flowering species in the Flint Hills, this actually isn’t true. The y-axis is a new and more complex way of of quantifying sensitivity, and I wish to be discrete…but this is pretty cool. 
Prairie Botanist 
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