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Table 4 Linear regression parameters quantifying the changes in maize phenological development for the observed phenological data of the four regions during the baseline period

From: Abundance of adverse environmental conditions during critical stages of crop production in Northern Germany

	DH			UE			FL			OS
	Estimate	R²/n	p value	Estimate	R²/n	p value	Estimate	R²/n	p value	Estimate	R²/n	p value
	[d] [d/y]	R²/n	p value	[d] [d/y]	R²/n	p value	[d] [d/y]	R²/n	p value	[d] [d/y]	R²/n	p value
Sowing	119 ± 7	0.14		122 ± 7	0.02		118 ± 7	0.1		120 ± 7	0.01
Sowing	− 0.35 ± 0.05	258	4.3E−10***	− 0.14 ± 0.07	187	5.1E−02	− 0.46 ± 0.20	55	2.2E−02*	− 0.1 ± 0.21		6.3E−01
Emergence	134 ± 8	0.17		134 ± 8	0.06		131 ± 7	0.12		133 ± 6	0
Emergence	− 0.4 ± 0.06	255	9.1E−12***	− 0.24 ± 0.08	177	2.0E−03**	− 0.52 ± 0.19	56	9.0E−03**	0.06 ± 0.18		7.4E−01
Tasselling	192 ± 12	0		194 ± 15	0.02	1.4E−01	202 ± 23	0.16		198 ± 15	0.16
Tasselling	0.09 ± 0.13	168	4.8E−01	0.27 ± 0.18	125		− 1.21 ± 0.31	81	0.0E+00***	− 0.84 ± 0.25		1.0E−03**
Flowering	201 ± 10	0.05		206 ± 9	0.06	1.6E−02*	201 ± 7	0		199 ± 17	0.01
Flowering	− 0.36 ± 0.16	108	2.6E−02*	− 0.45 ± 0.18	90		− 0.06 ± 0.22	50	7.9E−01	− 0.28 ± 0.59		6.4E−01
Harvest	280 ± 17	0		271 ± 18	0.01	1.7E−01	262 ± 15	0.08		262 ± 11	0.03
Harvest	− 0.07 ± 0.13	259	5.8E−01	− 0.24 ± 0.17	196		− 0.8 ± 0.39	54	4.4E−02*	− 0.4 ± 0.34		2.5E−01

Significance levels are denoted as followed: “.” for 0.1, “*” for 0.05, “**” for 0.01, and “***” for 0.001

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