State of the UK's Woods and Trees
Judith Garforth and Lorienne Whittle, 26/04/2021
Accelerated climate change is widely recognised as one of the greatest threats to natural systems across the globe. Chapter 3.1 covers just one of the many climate change impacts and woods and trees: phenology.
Exploring the relationship between temperature and the timing of seasonal events, key science output the UK Spring Index is used to exemplify how Nature's Calendar records are used to calculate the advancement of spring. Further published research using Nature's Calendar records is then used to explain some of the impacts of earlier springs on our wildlife, more specifically the potential mismatch in timing along a oak-caterpillar- bird woodland food chain.
Read the whole chapter and whole of the State of the UK's Woods and Trees report.
