Hey I made some graphs today on my journey to make some models of when lodgepole pine makes pollen and is receptive to pollen. Let's say you have three phenological phases like "working on making flowers but you can't see anything yet" "flowering" and "done flowering" or 0,1,2. As it warms up, individuals gradually transition from one stage to the next. That's the S shaped lines in the graph and the dots are n indivs in a given phase at that amount of warming.
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Also, fun fact: the trees I work on do not have flowers - they're pine trees! They have female cones and male cones. But foresters often talk about them "flowering" because what else are you going to call it? "Pollen shed and female cone receptivity time"? "Pollination phenology"? "Male and female strobili attempting to communicate season"?