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Macroevolutionary consequences of mast seeding. [PDF]
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 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 EE +4 more
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Mast seeding promotes evolution of scatter-hoarding. [PDF]
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 2021 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.
Zwolak R +3 more
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Understanding mast seeding for conservation and land management. [PDF]
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 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.
Pearse IS +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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An Agronomic Approach to Pine Nut Production by Grafting Stone Pine on Two Rootstocks
Agriculture, 2021 Stone pine (Pinus pinea) grows in natural stands within the Mediterranean basin and its nut is highly appreciated for its nutritional profile. Nevertheless, a decline in this species due to biotic and abiotic damages is currently being clearly observed ...
Mercè Guàrdia +3 more
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New Phytologist, 2023 SummaryThe periodic production of large seed crops, or masting, is a widespread phenomenon in perennial plants. This behavior can enhance the reproductive efficiency of plants, leading to increased fitness, and produce ripple effects on food webs. While variability from year to year is a defining characteristic of masting, the methods used to quantify ...
Bogdziewicz, Michał +10 more
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Solstice, selection, and synchrony of seed masting. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S ABogdziewicz M +5 more
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