Bases and limits to using 'degree.day' units

By R. Bonhomme. 2000

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Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Plant Science

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Simulating maize phenology as a function of air temperature with a linear and a nonlinear model (2008, methodology): “First, WE model uses a nonlinear temperature response function, which is more biologically sound to represent plant development response to temperature than a linear response (Bonhomme, 2000).”
Advancing breeding phenology in response to environmental change in a wild red deer population (2011, methodology): “We used measures of GDD to provide an estimate of local climatic conditions in relation to vegetation growth (Bonhomme, 2000).”
Modelling growth and body composition in fish nutrition: where have we been and where are we going? (2010, background): “The French botanist Re¤ aumur laid the basis of the thermal-unit concept in1735 inanattempt to explain the time required from sowing to harvesting of crops by summing the degre¤ -chaleur over that period (Allen 1976; Bonhomme 2000).”
The growing degree-day and fish size-at-age : the overlooked metric (2007, background): “…for at least 45 years in entomology, the time-based integral of the heat available for growth — heat transferred from the environment to the ectotherm — has been employed with remarkable success in explaining and predicting growth and development (e.g., Seamster 1950; Atkinson 1994; Bonhomme 2000).”
Relationship between the minimum and maximum temperature thresholds for development in insects (2009, background): “In addition, there are indications that ectothermic animals other than insects have thermal windows of similar widths (Blöchl et al. 1997; Moore 1942, 1949), and that the thermal window for plant development is also about 20 °C (Bonhomme 2000).”
A High-Resolution Cumulative Degree Day-Based Model to Simulate Phenological Development of Grapevine (2014, methodology): “To overcome the limitations of linear models (as described by Bonhomme 2000), the approach of Caffarra and Eccel (2009) takes into account that the development of plant tissues often follows a sigmoidal time course (e.g., Knoche et al. 2004).”
Do growing degree days predict phenology across butterfly species (2015, background): “GDD has a long history of use in predicting plant and insect phenology in agriculture (Parry and Carter 1985, Bonhomme 2000), and temperature has been shown to be a major driver of phenology (MillerRushing et al. 2010, Diamond et al. 2014).”