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Scale of mast-seeding and tree-ring growth
Nature, 1998The synchronous production of large seed crops by a population of plants1,2, known as mast-seeding, and synchronous tree-ring growth3,4 within sites are well known phenomena among trees in the temperate zone. But information about the geographic or taxonomic extent of such synchronous growth or reproduction, or about the geographic extent of switching ...
Walter D. Koenig, Johannes M. H. Knops
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How do vertebrates respond to mast seeding?
Oikos, 2015Mast‐seeding is the synchronized and intermittent production of a large seed crop by a population of plants. The cascading effects of masting on wildlife have been well documented in granivorous rodents. Yet, the effects of mast‐seeding are potentially further reaching, since a number of generalist species can take advantage of mast years.
Michał Bogdziewicz +2 more
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The mast seeding plants of Bhutan
2014Mast seeding, the intermittent production of synchronized seed crops among plant populations, is a world-wide phenomenon that has been reported in the Himalayan mountains across a large number of habitat types, and among a wide variety of long-lived grass, shrub and tree species. In this paper, we review various hypotheses that explain why mast seeding
Wright, Boyd R. +2 more
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MASTING IN ANIMAL-DISPERSED PINES FACILITATES SEED DISPERSAL
Ecology, 2002Masting increases the efficiency of wind pollination and satiates seed predators, but there is little evidence that masting facilitates seed dispersal by animals. Masting in pines was studied over three field seasons by simulating seed crops in synchrony (mast years, autumn 1998 and 1999) or out of synchrony (non-mast year, autumn 2000) with the local ...
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Diapause by seed predators and parasitoids in Chionochloa mast seeding communities
2008Chionochloa, a genus of snow tussock grasses native to New Zealand, exhibits pronounced mast seeding. Chionochloa suffers very high levels of pre-dispersal flower and seed predation by three main insects: Eucalyptodiplosis chionochloae, a cecidomyiid midge, which is formally described here; Megacraspedus calamogonus, a gelechiid moth and Diplotoxa ...
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Mast seeding and its relationship to animal hoarding behaviour
Biodiversity Science, 2020Hongmao Zhang
exaly