Fenologia – dezvoltare şi perspective. O sinteză [Phenology - development and perspectives. A synthesis]

Abstract

The paper presents to the Romanian readers a state of art regarding the main aspects of the phenology, based on a wide sources of scientific literature, both foreign and Romanian. Thus, it is performed a general view of the phenology development - including historical aspects, activity of the main (European) national and international networks. A short history of the Romanian phenology - from the first known references until present - both about the phenology of the cultivated and forest species - as the programme of observations are coordinated by National Meteorological Administration (A.N.M.) and Forest Research and Management Institute (I.C.A.S.), respectively - is presented too. The must important aspects of data collecting and processing - i.e. influence factors, methodologies used, phenology and remote sensing, the use of modelling in phenology - are resumed. A special attention received the relationship phenology - climate change, as a new and useful application of the present and historical phenological records.

Keywords

• phenological networks
• Romanian phenology
• remote sensing
• modeling
• climate change