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Examining Climate Change Effects On Flowering In Moss Campion, Mykaela Tanino-Springsteen, Olivia Dewitt, Anna Sher
Examining Climate Change Effects On Flowering In Moss Campion, Mykaela Tanino-Springsteen, Olivia Dewitt, Anna Sher
DU Undergraduate Research Journal Archive
Examining the variation in the collection date of herbarium specimens is a common method for studying the phenological effects of climate change on a flowering plant species. We used herbarium data to examine how warming temperatures have affected flowering time in Silene acaulis in the state of Colorado. Silene acaulis, commonly known as moss campion and cushion pink, is an alpine tundra plant. Using ordinal date of collection as a proxy for flowering date and year collected as a proxy for increasing average temperature, a linear regression test found that there was no significant relationship between increasing temperatures and …