Fig. 3: Current estimated phenological escape duration in northern temperate deciduous forests. | Nature Communications

Fig. 3: Current estimated phenological escape duration in northern temperate deciduous forests.

From: Wildflower phenological escape differs by continent and spring temperature

Fig. 3

Estimated mean difference between wildflower First Flower Date (FFD) and canopy tree Leaf Out Date (LOD) (in days) under current climate conditions (averaged from 2009–2018, see methods) in a Asia, b Europe, and c North America. Negative values indicate tree LOD is estimated to occur before wildflower FFD. Estimations were cropped by the estimated area of broadleaf and mixed-broadleaf forest (see methods). Dark gray regions indicate areas where the consensus land classification is <1% deciduous or mixed deciduous forest cover. An uncropped version of this figure is available in Fig. S11.

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