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Mast seeding is stronger in taller plants
Frontiers in Plant ScienceIntroductionTwo economies of scale, predator satiation and pollination efficiency, have been proposed to explain the evolutionary mechanisms of mast seeding adopted by some long-lived plants.
Xianfeng Yi, Yi Xianfeng
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Measuring temporal patterns in ecology: The case of mast seeding [PDF]
Ecology and Evolution, 2021 Properly assessing temporal patterns is a central issue in ecology in order to understand ecosystem processes and their mechanisms. Mast seeding has traditionally been described as a reproductive behavior consisting of highly variable and synchronized ...
Marcos Fernández‐Martínez +1 more
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The functional response of a hoarding seed predator to mast seeding [PDF]
Ecology, 2010 Mast seeding involves the episodic and synchronous production of large seed crops by perennial plants. The predator satiation hypothesis proposes that mast seeding maximizes seed escape because seed predators consume a decreasing proportion of available seeds with increasing seed production.
Stan Boutin +2 more
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Macroevolutionary consequences of mast seeding [PDF]
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 2021 Abstract Masting characterizes large, intermittent and highly synchronous seeding events among individual plants and is found throughout the plant Tree of Life (ToL). Although masting can increase plant fitness, little is known about whether it results in evolutionary changes across entire clades, such as by promoting speciation or ...
Dale, Esther E +4 more
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Utilization of Sasa borealis seeds by Japanese field mouse: discovery of small-seed caching
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2023 Bambusoideae are well-known for their large-scale flowering, seeding, and death events that occur after a vegetative phase that can often last for decades. These events are a valuable resource for many animals.
Hanami Suzuki, Hisashi Kajimura
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Understanding mast seeding for conservation and land management [PDF]
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 2021 Abstract Masting, the intermittent and synchronous production of large seed crops, can have profound consequences for plant populations and the food webs that are built on their seeds. For centuries, people have recorded mast crops because of their importance in managing wildlife populations.
Ian S. Pearse +3 more
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Snow Tussocks, Chaos, and the Evolution of Mast Seeding [PDF]
The American Naturalist, 2002 One hitherto intractable problem in studying mast seeding (synchronous intermittent heavy flowering by a population of perennial plants) is determining the relative roles of weather, plant reserves, and evolutionary selective pressures such as predator satiation. We parameterize a mechanistic resource-based model for mast seeding in Chionochloa pallens
Rees, M., Kelly, D., Bjørnstad, O.N.
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How does the 120-year cycle mast seeding of dwarf bamboo affect the rodent population?
Ecological Processes, 2022 Background In 2017, large-scale flowering, seeding, and dying events of dwarf bamboo (Sasa borealis) occurred in a wide range in central Japan for the first time in 120 years. This phenomenon of S.
Hanami Suzuki +2 more
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Ecosphere, 2021 Mast seeding is a well‐known example of pulsed resources in terrestrial ecosystems. Despite the large literature available so far on the effects of mast seeding on the dynamics of seed consumer populations, it remains unknown whether heterogeneity in ...
Marlène Gamelon +8 more
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Ecology and Evolution, 2023 Bambusoideae is a taxon of mass‐flowering monocarpic perennials with a long life cycle. Forest ecosystems are affected by Bambusoideae seeding and death events in various ways, including an increased abundance of Apodemus spp.
Hanami Suzuki, Hisashi Kajimura
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