Concepts

When organisms dependent on synchronized milestones adapt to environmental changes at different rates, causing their reproductive, feeding, and/or migration patterns to become asynchronous

Number of days from autumn snow onset to spring snowmelt, providing temperature stabilization and protection for overwintering organisms

Temperature accumulation metric calculated using averaging method with base temperature, used to predict insect phenology and plant development

Direct damage to plant buds and flowers from freezing temperatures occurring during vulnerable developmental stages

The tendency for related species to resemble each other more than expected by chance, measured by Blomberg's K and Pagel's lambda

The measure of seed quality based on embryonic development and potential for successful germination

The degree to which individuals in a population exhibit coordinated timing of nesting activity

Theory that animals distribute themselves among habitat patches in proportion to resource availability, with high-quality patches becoming occupied first and animals moving to lower-quality patches as...

Day of year from 1-365 used to measure timing of biological events

The hypothesis that larger flowers produce more seeds due to greater resource allocation or pollinator attraction

Graph showing the number of open flowers over time, describing temporal distribution of flower openings with properties like start date, end date, mean date, breadth, and skewness

Systematic tendency for historical plant collectors to preferentially collect rare or uncommon species while avoiding common, dominant species

Plants that live for multiple years but flower only once before dying

The number of weeks during a growing season when both pollinators and their floral resources are active and available

Variation in rainfall patterns between years affecting plant growth and flower production