The~ 400 million specimens deposited across~ 3000 herbaria are essential for:(i)
understanding where plants have lived in the past,(ii) forecasting where they may live in the …

Coastal salt marshes suffering from anthropogenic coastal development and sea level rise
have attracted much attention because of their capacity for carbon sequestration and global …

The interest in and significance of herbarium collections for the study of plant biodiversity
and evolution has significantly expanded in recent decades due to the introduction of new …

Plant phenology has been shifting dramatically in response to climate change, a shift that
may have significant and widespread ecological consequences. Of particular concern are …

Detection of flowering and quantification of flowering phenology are key to monitoring the
reproduction of tropical trees and their response to global change. However, effective …

Aim Darwin posited that invaders similar to native species are less likely to be successful
due to competitive exclusion. A key axis across which such competition occurs across …

Mangrove management in China is converting from emphasis on occupied area to intrinsical
quality. Mangrove species have varied ecological values, eg, those having well-developed …

Premise Data on plant distribution and diversity from natural history collections and
taxonomic databases are increasingly becoming available online as exemplified by the …

Societal Impact Statement Long‐term phenology data is crucial to elucidate the effects of
climate change on plants, but such efforts are lacking in the tropics. Historical records at the …

Flowers blooming, fungi fruiting, insects biting, fish spawning, geese migrating, deer calving;
our consciousness is steeped in a seasonal calendar of nature's events. Phenology is the …