{"id":5109,"date":"2024-05-23T15:07:14","date_gmt":"2024-05-23T14:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/landscapearchitecture\/?p=5109"},"modified":"2024-05-23T15:07:14","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T14:07:14","slug":"evidence-for-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/landscapearchitecture\/2024\/05\/23\/evidence-for-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Evidence for climate change?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Outside the Clegg Building, the <em>Cornus kousa<\/em> is looking amazing. Here&#8217;s a picture I took two days ago (21st May). The creamy &#8216;leaves&#8217; are called bracts. A bract is neither a leaf nor a flower, but it\u2019s often associated with flowers. Bracts are modified leaves that differ from normal leaves in various ways. They can be smaller, larger, or have a different colour, shape, or texture. Unlike leaves, which can occur anywhere along the stem, bracts are typically found just below a flower, a flower stalk, or an inflorescence. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/landscapearchitecture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/159\/sites\/445\/2024\/05\/P1110006y-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5110\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/landscapearchitecture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/159\/sites\/445\/2024\/05\/P1110006y-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/landscapearchitecture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/159\/sites\/445\/2024\/05\/P1110006y-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/landscapearchitecture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/159\/sites\/445\/2024\/05\/P1110006y-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/landscapearchitecture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/159\/sites\/445\/2024\/05\/P1110006y.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">21\/5\/24<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Four years ago I took a picture of the same tree at roughly the same stage in its phenological cycle. It was taken on 31st May, later than this year. What might explain this year&#8217;s earlier display? A wet spring? Global heating?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/landscapearchitecture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/159\/sites\/445\/2024\/05\/kousa31may19-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5111\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">31\/5\/19<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>If you are interested in phenology, the scientific name of recording cyclical dates &#8211; budding, blossoming, leaf fall etc &#8211; you might be interested in this short piece from a newspaper.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/article\/2024\/may\/15\/plantwatch-britains-volunteer-naturalists-provide-vital-knowledge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/article\/2024\/may\/15\/plantwatch-britains-volunteer-naturalists-provide-vital-knowledge<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Bob Moore<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Outside the Clegg Building, the Cornus kousa is looking amazing. Here&#8217;s a picture I took two days ago (21st May). The creamy &#8216;leaves&#8217; are called bracts. A bract is neither [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events-and-publications","category-tl"],"blocksy_meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/landscapearchitecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/landscapearchitecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/landscapearchitecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/landscapearchitecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/landscapearchitecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/landscapearchitecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/landscapearchitecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/landscapearchitecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/landscapearchitecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}