ZOHNER LAB

Spring phenology

Wu et al. 2026. Carry-over effects between spring and autumn phenology differ among the world’s biomes. National Science Review.
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Hua et al. 2026. Accelerated land surface greening caused by earlier permafrost thawing. Nature Communications.


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Zhang et al. 2026. Effective chilling temperatures for dormancy release in extratropical forest trees increase from cold to warm regions. PNAS.

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Yang et al. 2026. Impact of summer defoliation and winter–spring warming on pre-spring carbon availability and spring phenology in sessile oak and Scots pine saplings. Tree Physiology.
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Bai et al. 2025. Contrasting responses of flowering phenology in C3 and C4 plants shape grassland community structure under global change. Ecology. 106.
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Wu et al. 2025. Stabilizing mechanisms enable dioecious trees to maintain synchrony in spring budburst under climate warming. New Phytologist. 247, 1655–1665.
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Liu et al. 2025. Diminished contribution of spring phenology to early-season carbon uptake in a changing climate. Commun Earth Environ. 6.
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Shen et al. 2024. Biodiversity buffers the response of spring leaf unfolding to climate warming. Nature Climate Change.

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Malyshev et al. 2024. The clockwork of spring: bud dormancy timing as a driver of spring leaf-out in temperate deciduous trees. Agr. For. Met.
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Wu et al. 2023. Poleward shifts in the maximum of spring phenological responsiveness of Ginkgo biloba to temperature in China. New Phytologist.
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Fu et al. 2023. Global warming is increasing the discrepancy between green (actual) and thermal (potential) seasons of temperate trees. Global Change Biology. 29, 1377–1389.
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Wu et al. 2022. Spatial difference of interactive effect between temperature and daylength on Ginkgo budburst. Frontiers in Plant Science. 13:887226.

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Vitasse et al. 2022. The great acceleration of plant phenological shifts. Nature Climate Change. 12, 300–304.


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Vitasse et al. 2021. Impact of microclimatic conditions and resource availability on spring and autumn phenology of temperate tree seedlings. New Phytologist. 232, 537-550.
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Baumgarten et al. 2021. Chilled to be forced: the best dose to wake up buds from winter dormancy. New Phytologist. 230, 1366-1377.

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Zohner et al. 2021. How changes in spring and autumn phenology translate into growth—experimental evidence of asymmetric effects. Journal of Ecology. 109, 2717–2728.
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Renner et al. 2021. Flowering times from 1844 and climate data from the World’s oldest meteorological station deepen the record of phenological change. American Journal of Botany. 108, 711–717.
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Zohner et al. 2020. Late spring-frost risk between 1959 and 2017 decreased in North America, but increased in Europe and Asia. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 117, 12192–12200.

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Zohner et al. 2020. Interactive climate factors restrict future increases in spring tree productivity. Global Change Biology. 26, 4042–4055.

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Zohner et al. 2020. Leaf-out in northern ecotypes of wide-ranging trees requires less spring warming, enhancing the risk of spring frost damage at cold range limits. Global Ecology and Biogeography.
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Zohner et al. 2020. Rising air humidity during spring does not trigger leaf-out in temperate woody plants. New Phytologist.


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Fu et al. 2019. Daylength helps temperate deciduous trees to leaf-out at the optimal time. Global Change Biology. 


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Fu et al. 2019. Shortened temperature-relevant period for spring leaf-out in temperate trees. Global Change Biology. 25, 4282-4290.

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Zohner & Renner 2018. Global warming reduces leaf-out and flowering synchrony among individuals. eLife. 7, e40214.


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Renner & Zohner 2018. Climate change and phenological mismatch in trophic interactions among plants, insects, and vertebrates. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics. 49, 165–182.
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Desnoues E et al. 2017. The relative roles of local climate adaptation and phylogeny in determining leaf-out timing of temperate tree species. Forest Ecosystems. 4, 26.

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Zohner et al.  2017. Spring predictability explains different leaf-out strategies in the woody floras of North America, Europe, and East Asia. Ecology Letters 20, 452–460.

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Muffler et al.  2016. Distribution ranges and spring phenology explain late frost sensitivity of 170 woody plants from the Northern hemisphere. Global Ecology and Biogeography 25, 1061–1071.
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Zohner et al. 2016. Day length unlikely to constrain climate-driven shifts in leaf-out times of northern woody plants. Nature Climate Change 6, 1120–1123.


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Zohner & Renner 2015. Perception of photoperiod in individual buds of mature trees regulates leaf-out. New Phytologist 208, 1023–1030.


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Zohner & Renner 2014. Common garden comparison of the leaf-out phenology of woody species from different native climates, combined with herbarium records, forecasts long-term change. Ecology Letters 17, 1016–1025.
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