![]() Gilbert White famously authored The Natural History of Selborne. First published in 1789, this book achieved great literary fame it remains in print and has been published in numerous editions. Detailed observations of the plants and animals in and around his Hampshire home led him to identify numerous species unnamed by science at the time, including birds, the harvest mouse and noctule bats. ![]() ![]() Regarded as the 'father of ecology', Gilbert White is still well known as an influential natural historian three hundred years after this birth. Here comparisons are made between a number of phenology databsets, included those recorded by eminent natural historian, Gilbert White. With the earliest records dating back to 1736, this is a powerful tool in looking at how the timing of such events - the phenology of plants and animals - has changed over the past 300 years. These records give precise information on the timing of natural events at a specific location. ![]() The Nature's Calendar database has nearly 3 million phenology records. ![]()
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