Abstract
Life history of ectothermic organisms, including odonates, is greatly influenced by environmental temperature. Current increase in temperatures in many areas connected with global climate change may therefore affect many traits of natural populations, especially their phenology. In odonates, this includes, the timing of emergence, flight period and reproductive behaviour of adults. This study describes the phenology of odonates in a single, extremely warm year (2018) at a site located in a Central European city (Kraków, Poland), and compares it with the past data on odonate phenology across the country. Thirty-six species were recorded in the studied site. Comparison with literature revealed that for a quarter of species, the dates of first records were 1–2 ten-day periods earlier than documented in the previous phenological data for the country. In contrast to existing data, in the current study there were summer, not spring species that showed an advanced phenological pattern of occurrence. This study demonstrates that contemporary data on odonate phenology obtained in a single, extremely warm season, deviates from comparative long-term data from more than a decade ago, potentially as a result of rising temperatures brought on by climate change.
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Bobrek, R. Odonate phenology recorded in a Central European location in an extremely warm season. Biologia 76, 2957–2964 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11756-021-00785-y
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