New citizen science initiative enhances flowering onset predictions for fruit trees in Great Britain
Chris Wyver,
Simon G Potts,
Richard Pitts
et al.
Abstract:Accurately predicting flowering phenology in fruit tree orchards is crucial for timely pest and pathogen treatments and for the introduction of managed pollinators. Making predictions requires large datasets of flowering dates, which are often limited to single locations. Consequently, resulting phenology predictions are not representative across larger geographic areas. Citizen science may offer a solution to this data gap, with millions of biological records across a wide range of taxa recorded annually. Her… Show more
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