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Current Biology, 2021 Andrew Hacket-Pain introduces the phenomenon known as 'masting', in which perennial plants show extraordinary variation in annual reproductive ...
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EcosphereThe reproduction of many long‐lived plants is highly variable and synchronized, known as masting. Masting is a key driver of plant regeneration dynamics and has cascading effects on food webs and carbon and nutrient fluxes through ecosystems.
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Beyond predator satiation: Masting but also the effects of rainfall stochasticity on weevils drive acorn predation [PDF]
Ecosphere, 2017 Escaping seed predation is a classic “economy of scale” hypotheses (predator satiation hypothesis, Psh) to explain the selection for the synchronous production of massive and nil seed crops (masting) in plants.
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Masting of European Beech in Seed Stands from Eastern Carpathians [PDF]
South-East European ForestryMasting is the process of producing seed crops, which presents annual variation and synchronicity among individuals. Among the major species in Europe, beech is the most common deciduous species, a foundational species in the majority of forest ...
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Masting ontogeny: the largest masting benefits accrue to the largest trees. [PDF]
Ann BotBackground and Aims Both plants and animals display considerable variation in their phe- notypic traits as they grow. This variation helps organisms to adapt to specific challenges at different stages of development.
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Current Gastroenterology Reports, 2010 Mast cells have been considered for many years to participate specifically in allergic reactions through the release of cytokines, chemokines, proteases, leukotrienes, and bioactive polyamines. Emerging roles for mast cells have been identified recently, which highlight their relevance in both innate and adaptive immunity.
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Mast fruiting is a frequent strategy in woody species of eastern South America. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2007 BACKGROUND: It is thought that mast seeding is a rare reproductive strategy in the tropics, since tropical climates are less variable, and fruit consumers tend to be more generalist in these regions.
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Ecosphere, 2021 Masting, a large interannual variation of reproductive investment spatially synchronized within perennial plants, is an important factor for understanding the use and storage of carbon and nutrient resources in various forest ecosystems.
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Ecology and Evolution, 2022 In fragile ecosystems, the introduction of exotic species could alter some ecological processes. The Austral parakeet (Enicognathus ferrugineous) shows close ecological and evolutionary relationships with the Andean Araucaria (Araucaria araucana), so any
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Determination of Beech (Fagas oricffiolis Lipsky) seeding cycle at caspian Forests of Iran (Kelardasht) [PDF]
تحقیقات جنگل و صنوبر ایران, 1999 The research project of determining Beech seeding cycle was conducted at Kelardasht region of Caspian Forests. Thirty dominant Beech trees were selected for quantity and quality measurement.
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