Monitoring, analysing, forecasting and communicating phenological changes

The main objectives of this PhD thesis are to assess the climate-induced phenological changes in The Netherlands, to increase the knowledge and understanding of the ecological and socio-economic impacts of these phenological changes, to determine how society can adapt to these phenological changes and to determine the importance of phenological networks in monitoring of, communicating on and adapting to the emerging phenological changes. Over 180,000 plant phenological observations available from various Dutch phenological networks and private observation series since 1868 were analysed