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...current study built upon work performed over the past decade by Boston University professor Richard B. Primack ’72 and Abraham J. Miller-Rushing of the USA National Phenology Network and the Wildlife Society. The pair hunted for botanical records from Concord’s past to track changes in plant traits over the last 150 years—and fortunately, eastern Massachusetts proved to be “a treasure trove of historical records,” Primack said...
...Primack and Miller-Rushing proceeded to record observations of about 500 species of plants at Walden Pond over a period of six years. Combining old and new data sets, the duo concluded that seasonal plant traits were shifting as climate change pushed springtime earlier...
...work proved challenging because many of the plants described by Thoreau, a Harvard alum, have been renamed or regrouped over the past century, according to graduate student Brad R. Ruhfel. But when Davis suggested cutting Thoreau’s data, Primack was in firm opposition to the idea...
...said 'Don’t even think about that,'" Primack recalled. "[The study] connects a literary and philosophical source to one of the most important scientific issues of our time...
...Without working together we would not have been able to do it at all,” Primack said. “This is an extremely productive interaction that brought together results that neither [research group] would have anticipated...