Primary Convener:
Jitendra Kumar, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Convener:
Lin Meng, Vanderbilt University
Kai Zhu, University of Michigan
Forrest Hoffman, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Early Career Convener:
Min Chen, University of Wisconsin Madison

Chair:
Jitendra Kumar, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Lin Meng, Vanderbilt University

Phenology, or changes in the timing of plant or animal behaviors or characteristics, is an integrative and sensitive indicator of ecosystem health and function that responds to meteorology, water and nutrient availability, disturbance, and environmental change. Phenology includes the timing of biotic activities such as migration, mating, and rearing of young in animals, as well as germination, leaf, seed, fruit set, and senescence in plants. Understanding phenological responses to environmental change across spatial and temporal scales is critical for forecasting shifts in land surface energy balance, species activity, and associated changes in biogeochemical cycling, landscape dynamics, and ecological processes. This session features recent advances in characterizing the spatio-temporal patterns in vegetation and animal phenology using a variety of methods (e.g., satellite, drones, PhenoCam, in-situ measurements, Earth system models); determining underlying mechanisms; developing accurate models of phenology; and investigating implications for ecological processes and their effects and impacts on human society.

Index Terms
0414 Biogeochemical cycles, processes, and modeling
0428 Carbon cycling
0438 Diel, seasonal, and annual cycles
0480 Remote sensing

Suggested Itineraries:
Climate Change and Global Policy
Biochemistry
Machine Learning and AI
Open Science and Open Data

Neighborhoods:
3. Earth Covering

Cross-Listed:
GC - Global Environmental Change