Data on: Winter warming offsets one half of the spring warming effects on leaf unfolding

This dataset is the data used to create figures in paper of Global Change Biology entitled \"Winter warming offsets one half of the spring warming effects on leaf unfolding\", we constructed a phenological model based on the linear or exponential function between the chilling accumulation (CA) and forcing requirements (FR) of leaf-out. We further used the phenological model to quantify the relative contributions of chilling and forcing on past and future spring phenological change. The results showed that the delaying effect of decreased chilling on the leaf-out date was prevalent in natural conditions, as more than 99% of time series exhibited a negative relationship between CA and FR. The reduction in chilling linked to winter warming from 1951-2014 could offset about one half of the spring phenological advance caused by the increase in forcing. In future warming scenarios, if the same model is used and a linear, stable correlation between CA and FR is assumed, declining chilling will c...,
See the Materials and methods section in the original paper.
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