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Season creep was included in the 9th edition of the Collins English Dictionary published in London June 4, 2007. [38] [39] The term was popularized in the media after the report titled "Season Creep: How Global Warming Is Already Affecting The World Around Us" was published by the American environmental organization Clear the Air on March 21, 2006. [40]
The outer stems of the plant bend into circular rings after a relatively short period without water. The inner stems instead curl slowly into spirals in response to desiccation, due to the action of the strain gradient along their length. [3] Selaginella lepidophylla reaches a maximum height of 5 cm, and is native to the Chihuahuan Desert. [5]
Many blooms are higher in chlorophylls and primary carotenoids during early stages of the bloom, causing the snow to appear green or yellow. [15] Later in the summer, the bloom may switch to orange or red due high production of astaxanthin during low nutrient periods and the snow algae’s more stable cyst stage that they use to over-winter.
“Now of course on a day like today, not too many butterflies around, not too many flowers around, but we still have these beautiful formations of ice that you can enjoy for a very short period ...
The blooms thrive on poor, rocky soil under a full sun, which is why they thrive in Texas on pastures that have been heavily grazed, experienced recent fires and land that have been mown, such as ...
The word is derived from the Greek φαίνω (phainō), "to show, to bring to light, make to appear" [6] + λόγος (), amongst others "study, discourse, reasoning" [7] and indicates that phenology has been principally concerned with the dates of first occurrence of biological events in their annual cycle.
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Heliotropism, a form of tropism, is the diurnal or seasonal motion of plant parts (flowers or leaves) in response to the direction of the Sun. The habit of some plants to move in the direction of the Sun, a form of tropism, was already known by the Ancient Greeks. They named one of those plants after that property Heliotropium, meaning "sun turn".