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Title: Citizen science: Plant and insect phenology with regards to degree-days

Author
item Chasen, Elissa
item Steffan, Shawn

Submitted to: Wisconsin State Cranberry Growers Association
Publication Type: Abstract Only
Publication Acceptance Date: 12/30/2014
Publication Date: 1/21/2015
Citation: Chasen, E.M., Steffan, S.A. 2015. Citizen science: Plant and insect phenology with regards to degree-days [abstract]. Wisconsin State Cranberry Growers Association. Paper No. SA-3.

Interpretive Summary:

Technical Abstract: Daily minimum and maximum temperatures collected from grower-collaborators were used to calculate site specific degree-days. Using our new understanding of Sparganothis phenology, plant phenology were examined relative to moth phenology, allowing us to predict moth development in parallel with plant development. Specifically, degree-days were correlated with marsh-specific plant phenology events. Using laboratory collected data regarding Sparganothis fruitworm temperature thresholds and field collected data of Sparganothis phenological events, plant phenology is then correlated with Sparganothis phenology.