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Data from: Bioelectrical synchronization of Picea abies during a solar eclipse
Dryad
26/05/2025
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Abstract
Regular light–dark cycles greatly affect organisms, and events like eclipses induce distinctive physiological and behavioural shifts. While well-documented in animals, plant behaviour during eclipses remains largely unexplored. Here, we monitored multiple spruce trees to assess their individual and collective bioelectrical responses to a solar eclipse. Trees anticipated the eclipse, synchronizing their bioelectrical behaviour hours in advance. Older trees displayed greater anticipatory behaviour with early time-asymmetry and entropy increases. These results reveal a relationship between trees, shaped by individual age and physiology as well as collective history. This highlights the significance of synchrony in plants, offering new insights into coordinated behaviours in nature.
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- Title
- Data from: Bioelectrical synchronization of Picea abies during a solar eclipse
- Creators
- Alessandro Chiolerio - Italian Institute of TechnologyMonica Gagliano - Southern Cross UniversitySilvio Pilia - OpenAziendaPaolo Pilia - OpenAziendaGiuseppe Vitiello - University of SalernoMohammad Dehshibi - Universidad Autónoma de MadridAndrew Adamatzky - University of the West of England
- Publisher
- Dryad
- Grant note
- Zenit Arti Audiovisive
- Identifiers
- 991013286332702368
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Science and Engineering; Science
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Dataset