Welcome to Phenology 2025
The Phenology 2025 Conference “PHENO2025 - Towards a Global Phenology Science" is the first Phenology Conference in the Global South and in a tropical country, Brazil. The PHENO2025 represents a crucial gathering for scientists, researchers, students, technicians and policymakers from all around the world dedicated to understanding the impacts of climate change on ecosystems through the lens of phenology.
Phenology – the study of recurrent events in the life cycles of plants and animals (e.g. flowering, leaf fall and unfolding, animal migration) is an integrative science, combining disciplines of ecology, evolutionary biology, climatology, and environmental sciences. Phenology is a key indicator of environmental changes, bringing together experts from various disciplines, stakeholders and society.
PHENO2025 conference aims to foster global collaboration and innovation in monitoring, modeling, and predicting phenological shifts. Specific areas of interest include phenology communities and networks, standards and protocols for data collection, phenology as a bio-indicator of climate change, impacts of phenology on organism performance and ecosystem function, physiological and genetic determinism, remote sensing phenology, biodiversity conservation and ecological restoration, bringing to scene highly diverse ecosystems. Other relevant topics addressed are phenological decoupling and the temporality of ecological networks and interactions, climate change and urban phenology, citizen science, networks and botanical gardens, and the use of historical data and herbarium and museum collections to understand temporal responses to climate change. This comprehensive approach is vital for developing adaptive strategies to mitigate the adverse effects of climate change on biodiversity, food production, planetary health and human wellbeing.
PHENO2025 will serve as a platform to highlight the importance of standardized global phenological data collection and sharing. Enhanced international cooperation can lead to more comprehensive datasets, enabling better-informed decisions at local, regional and global levels. The conference will also address the integration of traditional ecological knowledge with modern scientific approaches, emphasizing the role of indigenous and local communities in phenological research. Ultimately, PHENO 2025 will be a venue bridging Global North and South, positioned to advance the field of phenology, contributing to more resilient ecosystems and societies in the face of a rapidly changing climate.
