Satellite data show trees delay budburst across landscapes to escape herbivores

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-026-03071-9

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Satellite data show trees delay budburst across landscapes to escape herbivores - Nature Ecology & Evolution

Plant phenology tends to track with climate warming, but it could also be sensitive to biotic factors. This study from a temperate forest landscape in Germany shows that a single year of tree responses to intense insect herbivory can counteract a decade of environmentally driven shifts in spring phenology.

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