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confounding effects

Scope: methodological
Papers: 1 | Mentions: 1

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Definition

When three variables are all related to one another, creating spurious climate-phenology relationships because both variables change across years

Related Terms (2)

confounded relationshipsconfounding

Publications (1)

article

Detrending phenological time series improves climate-phenology analyses and reveals evidence of plasticity

2017Ecologyframework

Related Concepts (4)

phenological mismatch

phenomenon1 shared paper

phenotypic plasticity

process1 shared paper

snow cover duration

measurement1 shared paper

detrending

methodology1 shared paper