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Conducting a study of the seasonality of flowering, fruiting, and foliation, often termed a phenological study, of species within a plant community is often not an end in itself. It may serve as a way to discover the component species of the community and when each species may be expected to be in a reproductive or vegetative stage suitable for study.
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Opler et al. (1992) studied this question.