As climate change continues to dominate the international environmental agenda, phenology ¿ the study of the timing of recurring biological events ¿ has received increasing research attention, leading to an emerging consensus that phenology can be viewed as an ¿early warning system¿ for climate change impact. A multidisciplinary science involving many branches of ecology, geography and remote sensing, phenology to date has lacked a coherent methodological text. This new synthesis, including contributions from many of the world¿s leading phenologists, therefore fills a critical gap in the current biological literature. Providing critiques of current methods, as well as detailing novel and emerging methodologies, the book, with its