Here’s a great idea:
Project BudBurst allows people to enter their backyard spring leaf budding and bloom data into an online database that will help track the changing blooming times of specific types of plants.
It covers basically native ornamental trees and shrubs in the US, but surely it could be applied to agricultural species, and be extended worldwide?
More from the Human Flower Project.
Certainly could. Reminded me of an article I read (think it was actually in Geneflow)about a father and son team who had been monitoring changing fruiting patterns in fungi in UK forests in response to climate change. Something that could be easily scaled up to include schools and provide students with an experiential learning approach to climate change and the various impacts and interactions that arise. Could use the approaches the LandCare movement has successfully used in Australian schools.