Alison Donnelly

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used an enormous systematic phenological network data set of more than 125 000 observational series of 542 plant and 19 animal species in 21 European countries (1971-2000) and concluded that previously published results of phenological changes were not biased by reporting or publication predisposition.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the role of management practices, climate and elevated CO2 in carbon sequestration in temperate grassland ecosystems and their influence on future carbon stocks in grassland soils.

TL;DR: The results suggest that the timing of growth onset in B. pubescens and S. x smithiana (opportunistic) is regulated through a less conservative mechanism than in T. cordata and F. sylvatica (long-lived, late successional), and that these species trade a higher risk of frost damage for the opportunity of vigorous growth at the beginning of spring, before canopy closure.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors demonstrate the effectiveness of a workshop-based approach to develop appropriate criteria for selecting environmental indicator for use in strategic environmental assessment (SEA) in order to isolate, plan or programme specific impacts.

TL;DR: Mismatches in phenology between mutually dependent species, resulting from climate change, can have far-reaching consequences throughout an ecosystem at both higher and lower trophic levels, and more research into the complex interactions between species in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems is necessary to make conclusive predictions of how climate warming may impact the fragile balances within ecosystems in future.