Understory plants evade shading in a temperate deciduous forest amid climate variability by shifting phenology in synchrony with canopy trees

• Carol K. Augspurger ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Carol K. Augspurger, Carl F. Salk

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Plant Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, United States of America

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• Carl F. Salk

  Contributed equally to this work with: Carol K. Augspurger, Carl F. Salk

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: carl.salk@slu.se

  Affiliations Southern Swedish Forest Research Centre, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Alnarp, Sweden, Institute for Globally-Distributed Open Research and Education, Gothenburg, Sweden

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2833-8292

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