Start of growing season advanced by 9.4 ± 2.2 and 8.3± 2.0 days during 1982-1999 and 2000-2020 respectively, whereas its end delayed only by 8.2 ± 1.9 days during 2000-2020.Current models project an advance in season start by 8.8 days and a delay in season end by 14.0 days in 2086-2100 relative to 2000-2014 under Shared-Socioeconomic-Pathway 5-8.5. Warming and increasing precipitation are the main climatic drivers of advancing spring phenology (start of vegetative growing season and first flowering) and delaying end of the growing season. The direction and magnitude of responses of phenophases to temperature depend on soil water availability, with greater temperature sensitivity of the start and end of the season under wetter conditions.First flowering date is more sensitive to temperature on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau than in Arctic grasslands.The temperature sensitivities of the start and end of the growing season are greater than those of Arctic grasslands, but smaller than those of mid-latitude alpine and subalpine grasslands.

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