Does mast seeding shape mating time in wild boar? A comparative study [PDF]
Biol Lett, 2022 International audienceIn seasonal environments, the timing of reproduction often matches with the peak of food resources. One well-known effect of global warming is an earlier phenology of resources, leading to a possible mismatch between the timing of ...
Christine Saint-Andrieux +13 more
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Mast seeding promotes evolution of scatter-hoarding [PDF]
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 2019 ABSTRACT Many plant species worldwide are dispersed by scatterhoarding granivores: animals that hide seeds in numerous, small caches for future consumption. Yet, the evolution of scatterhoarding is difficult to explain because undefended caches are at high risk of pilferage.
Rafał Zwolak +3 more
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Climate change weakens the tie between weather and mast seeding [PDF]
Communications Biology, 2021 Climate change has been shown to affect the interannual variation and synchrony among individuals in seed production of masting trees, yet the proximate mechanisms driving these patterns remain unclear. A recent study by Michał Bogdziewicz and colleagues
Caitlin Karniski
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Climate change and plant reproduction: trends and drivers of mast seeding change [PDF]
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 2021 Climate change is reshaping global vegetation through its impacts on plant mortality, but recruitment creates the next generation of plants and will determine the structure and composition of future communities.
Hacket-Pain, Andrew +1 more
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Nutrient scarcity as a selective pressure for mast seeding [PDF]
Nature Plants, 2019 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 should have evolutionary advantages under certain circumstances.
M. Fernández-Martínez +12 more
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Pulsed Resource Events Mediate Fluctuations in Wild Boar (Sus scrofa) Bag Records in Central Europe [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionClimate change in Europe is leading not only to an increase in temperature but also to a higher frequency of extreme weather events. Knowledge of the cascading effects of climate change along food chains, including mast seeding and the population ...
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Masting uncoupling: mast seeding does not follow all mast flowering episodes in a dioecious juniper tree [PDF]
Oikos, 2012 Evolutionary selective forces, like predator satiation and pollination efficiency, are acknowledged to be major causes of masting (the variable, periodic and synchronic production of seeds in a population). However, a number of recent studies indicate that resources might also play an important role on shaping masting patterns ...
Montesinos, Daniel +2 more
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An Ecological Dipole in North American Mast‐Eating Small Mammal Dynamics [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionEcological dipoles are the opposite patterns in animal and plant population indices over time in geographically distant areas. Ecological dipoles are recently described macroscale patterns in animal and plant population dynamics, and have been uncovered ...
Jessica H. Barton +5 more
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A mast-seeding desert shrub regulates population dynamics and behavior of its heteromyid dispersers [PDF]
Ecol Evol, 2016 Granivorous rodent populations in deserts are primarily regulated through precipitation-driven resource pulses rather than pulses associated with mast-seeding, a pattern more common in mesic habitats.
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Behaviour of Brown Bears Under Fluctuating Resource Availability [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionMast seeding, the variable and intermittent production of seeds, has cascading effects on ecosystem functioning. This study explores its influence on the brown bear populations in the Italian Alps, focusing on beechnuts (Fagus sylvatica L.), the primary ...
Clara Tattoni +9 more
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