Mar. 22nd, 2023

phenology

Mar. 22nd, 2023 07:10 am
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phenology (fi-NOL-uh-jee) - n., the study of the effect of climate on periodic biological phenomena


Such as such as bird migration or plant flowering or autumnal coloring. How does a warmer/cooler/drier/wetter/other fluctuations winter affect things? And so on. Also used for the biological phenomenon that correlate with climatic conditions, but that seems to be a much lesser sense. Coined around 1884 either as a contraction of phenomenology or from Ancient Greek roots phainō, to show/make appear + -ology, study of.

---L.

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