Increasing temperature causes flowering onset time changes of alpine ginger Roscoea in the Central Himalayas

Mohandass, Dharmalingam, Zhao, Jian-Li, Xia, Yong-Mei, Campbell, Mason J., and Li, Qing-Jun (2015) Increasing temperature causes flowering onset time changes of alpine ginger Roscoea in the Central Himalayas. Journal of Asia-Pacific Biodiversity, 8 (3). pp. 191-198.

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Abstract

Recent herbarium-based phenology assessments of many plant species have found significant responses to global climate change over the previous century. In this study, we investigate how the flowering phenology of three alpine ginger Roscoea species responses to climate change over the century from 1913 to 2011, by comparing between herbarium-based phenology records and direct flowering observations. According to the observations, flowering onset of the three alpine ginger species occurred either 22 days earlier or was delayed by 8–30 days when comparing the mean peak flowering date between herbarium-based phenology records and direct flowering observations. It is likely that this significant change in flowering onset is due to increased annual minimum and maximum temperatures and mean annual temperature by about 0.053°C per year. Our results also show that flowering time changes occurred due to an increasing winter–spring minimum temperature and monsoon minimum temperature, suggesting that these Roscoea species respond greatly to climate warming resulting in changes on flowering times.

Item ID: 40672
Item Type: Article (Research - C1)
ISSN: 2287-9544
Keywords: climate change, flowering phenology, global warming, herbarium-based phenology, Zingiberaceae
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This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license.

Funders: Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), National Basic Research Program of China (NBRP), National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)
Projects and Grants: CAS Grant No. KSCX2-YW-Z-0903, NBRP 973 Program, Grant. No. 2007CB411600, NSFC Grant No. 31200173
Date Deposited: 29 Sep 2015 04:14
FoR Codes: 05 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES > 0501 Ecological Applications > 050101 Ecological Impacts of Climate Change @ 100%
SEO Codes: 96 ENVIRONMENT > 9608 Flora, Fauna and Biodiversity > 960805 Flora, Fauna and Biodiversity at Regional or Larger Scales @ 100%
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