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Postdoctoral fellow David Basler releases his drone from the top of Harvard Forest’s walk-up tower.
Credit: David R. Foster- Harvard Forest Archives

Over the last 30 years, spring phenology has advanced across eastern North America, increasing photosynthesis and net ecosystem carbon storage, with a small negative feedback to climate change. Beginning in 1990 as a biannual pen-and-paper record of bud break and leaf fall, HFR LTER launched the PhenoCam Network in 2008, a continental scale observatory of digital imagery tracking phenology at fine spatial and temporal scales.

 

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  1. Keenan, TF et al. 2014. Net carbon uptake has increased through warming-induced changes in temperate forest phenology. Nature Climate Change. doi: 10.1038/NCLIMATE2253

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Jonathan Thompson
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Posted:  July 14, 2020