Surprising roles of climate in regulating flowering phenology in a subtropical ecosystem

This dataset contains data from the paper: “Song, Z., Du, Y., Primack, R.B., Miller-Rushing, A.J., Ye, W., Huang, Z. (2021) Surprising roles of climate in regulating flowering phenology in a subtropical ecosystem. Ecography. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.05629”. 

This phenological data set included a total of 1892 collections, representing 105 native species, belonging to 76 genera of 42 families, and spanning a 105-year period from 1911 to 2015. This dataset contained 1540 herbarium specimens (81%, 1911−2012) and 352 photographs (19%, 2002−2015). Data for each species covered at least a 49-year time span and included at least 8 years of data, and also went through at least three of four periods in global warming during 1911−2015, i.e. early 20th century warming (1911−1941), mid 20th century hiatus (1942−1973), late 20th century warming (1974−2001), and early 21st century slowdown (2002−2015). All species were grouped into spring-flowering (March to May, 56 species), summer-flowering ...