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Sci Data. 2015 Jul 21;2:150038. doi: 10.1038/sdata.2015.38. eCollection 2015.

Lilac and honeysuckle phenology data 1956-2014.

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Alyssa H Rosemartin, Ellen G Denny, Jake F Weltzin, R Lee Marsh, Bruce E Wilson, Hamed Mehdipoor, Raul Zurita-Milla, Mark D Schwartz

Affiliations

  1. USA National Phenology Network, National Coordinating Office , Tucson, AZ 85721, USA ; School of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of Arizona , Tucson, AZ, USA.
  2. USA National Phenology Network, National Coordinating Office , Tucson, AZ 85721, USA ; U.S. Geological Survey , Tucson, AZ 85721, USA.
  3. Oak Ridge National Laboratory , Oak Ridge, TN 37830, USA.
  4. Department of Geo-Information Processing, Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), University of Twente , Enschede 7500, The Netherlands.
  5. Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee , Milwaukee, WI 53211, USA.

PMID: 26306204 PMCID: PMC4520215 DOI: 10.1038/sdata.2015.38

Abstract

The dataset is comprised of leafing and flowering data collected across the continental United States from 1956 to 2014 for purple common lilac (Syringa vulgaris), a cloned lilac cultivar (S. x chinensis 'Red Rothomagensis') and two cloned honeysuckle cultivars (Lonicera tatarica 'Arnold Red' and L. korolkowii 'Zabeli'). Applications of this observational dataset range from detecting regional weather patterns to understanding the impacts of global climate change on the onset of spring at the national scale. While minor changes in methods have occurred over time, and some documentation is lacking, outlier analyses identified fewer than 3% of records as unusually early or late. Lilac and honeysuckle phenology data have proven robust in both model development and climatic research.

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