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Detrending phenological time series improves climate-phenology analyses and reveals evidence of plasticity.
Ecology - 1 Mar 2017
Iler Amy M, Inouye David W, Schmidt Niels M, Høye Toke T
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Time series have played a critical role in documenting how phenology responds to climate change. However, regressing phenological responses against climatic predictors involves the risk of finding potentially spurious climate-phenology relationships simply because both variables also change across years. Detrending by year is a way to address this issue. Additionally, detrending isolates interannual variation in...
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