The fall of fall

• Autores: Fred Pearce
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3041, 2015, págs. 42-45
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Pearce details why pumpkins, fiery leaves and other icons of autumn are on climate change's hit list. Howard Neufeld of Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina, is one researcher who thinks this maybe so. He says the curtain may be descending on one of the season's defining spectacles, the fiery spread that sweeps through the forests of New England each fall--and climate change is to blame. Autumn is the poor relation of spring in terms of academic interest. Amanda Gallinat of Boston University calls it "the neglected season in climate change research". In the UK, a long amateur tradition of observing the start of spring has produced detailed records that go back to the 18th century. But, according to Kate Lewthwaite, citizen science manager at the UK's Woodland Trust, the systematic recording of autumn timeline only started in 2000.