EE Crone, JM Rapp - Annals of the New York Academy of …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Masting, the highly variable and synchronous production of seeds across a population of perennial plants, is an ecologically important, but still poorly understood, phenomenon …
Temperate hardwood deciduous forest is the dominant landcover in the Northeastern US, yet its canopy is usually ignored as pollinator habitat due to the abundance of wind …
Annually variable and synchronous seed production, or masting behavior, is a widespread phenomenon with dramatic effects on wildlife populations and their associated communities …
T Caignard, A Kremer, C Firmat, M Nicolas… - Scientific Reports, 2017 - nature.com
The changes in reproductive phenology (ie timing of flowering and fruiting) observed in recent decades demonstrate that tree reproduction has already been altered by climate …
A Nussbaumer, P Waldner, V Apuhtin, F Aytar… - Forest Ecology and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Mast seeding, the synchronised occurrence of large amounts of fruits and seeds at irregular intervals, is a reproductive strategy in many wind-pollinated species. Although a series of …
Mast seeding is one of the most intriguing reproductive traits in nature. Despite its potential drawbacks in terms of fitness, the widespread existence of this phenomenon suggests that it …
É Schermer, MC Bel‐Venner, D Fouchet… - Ecology …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
In many perennial wind‐pollinated plants, the dynamics of seed production is commonly known to be highly fluctuating from year to year and synchronised among individuals within …
A Satake, D Kelly - … Transactions of the Royal Society B, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The mechanisms underlying mast seeding have traditionally been studied by collecting long- term observational data on seed crops and correlating seedfall with environmental …