Readying for Winter

Thank you to all of our project contributors! We had a great first year with over 1300 observations from across the White Mountain National Forest submitted to our project. 70% of those were of our target plant species most of which were also coded with their flowering phenology status. So, with the cooler temperatures, the dropping of fruit, and the browning of leaves its time to sit by the fire and crunch some data! We are planning to compare the peak flowering times identified by iNaturalists to those we track at our long-term National Phenology Network plots. We expect good agreement but will iNaturalist observations have longer flowering times? Will they fill in gaps by covering a larger elevation range? We will share our results once we are done so stay tuned.

And remember our project is perennial so keep the observations coming next year. Same plants, same mountain ranges, but a new spring and summer!

Posted on 23 de outubro de 2018, 06:42 PM by gmurray