App puts 'green wave' solid spring

wageningenworld - Pupils and volunteers from seventeen European countries go the next time their phone record how changing nature. They do so by using a special app regularly in the same place with their smartphone to take pictures of six species of trees and plants. The photo collection that thus arises is clearer how nature reacts to the warmer climate.

' Many plants are for example, roughly 14 to 30 days earlier flowering than 40 years ago, '' said Arnold van Vliet of Wageningen University. On the website Nature Today he explains that the photos show enter through the app how to pull the beginning of spring ' a green wave 'from the south of Europe. Participants can look back accelerated their photos together in a so-called time-lapse video.

' The GrowApp becomes very easy for the continuous changes in the nature around us to visualize and investigate, '' says Van Vliet.