supported by the National Science Foundation of China(NSFC)grant 32371609,the Excellent Youth Foundation of Henan Province grant 212300410050,and HASTIT grant 22HASTIT033;M.Z.by the Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC)grant 32201309;Y.Y.by the National Science Foundation of China(NSFC)grant U2004150;X.Y.by the National Science Foundation of China(NSFC)grant 32070447.
Reproduction by perennial plants varies from being relatively constant over years to the production of massive and synchronous seed crops at irregular intervals,a reproductive strategy called mast seeding.The sources ...
supported by Future Trees Trust;The Patsy Wood Trust;Scottish Forestry Trust;Aitchinson Tait Trust;Action Oak
Acorn production in oaks(Quercus spp.)shows considerable inter-annual variation,known as masting.The effects of pollen sourced from trees within or outside the stand on acorn production were investigated in pedunculat...
Oaks(Quercus spp.)provide an important food source for many wildlife species throughout the fall and winter.Most research evaluating oak masting patterns and the subsequent behavioral responses of wildlife focuses on ...
supported by Future Trees Trust,The Patsy Wood Trust,Scottish Forestry Trust,Aitchinson Tait Trust,and Action Oak for funding;support from the UK Natural Environment Research Council (NE/S015833/1 (QUINTUS));support from the JABBS Trust,Norbury Park Estate,The John Horseman Trust,Ecological Continuity Trust,and the University of Birmingham;Access to BIFoR Core Data was funded by Royal Society University Research Fellowship URFR1191326
Acorn production in oak(Quercus spp.)shows considerable inter-annual variation,known as masting,which provides a natural defence against seed predators but a highly-variable supply of acorns for uses such as in commer...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(32170508,31772471);the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(CCNU22LJ003)。
The significance of ecological non-monotonicity(a function whose first derivative changes signs)in shaping the structure and functions of the ecosystem has recently been recognized,but such studies involving high-orde...
Uso sustentable de hojas de boldo y pinones de araucaria 052-2010 del Fondo de Investigación del Bosque Nativo(Chile)
Background Araucaria araucana is a mast species that presents a high variability in annual cone production.Researchers have recorded synchronization events in cone production in different populations,which allows the ...
supported by the“Sonatina”grant no.2020/36/C/NZ8/00013;M.Z.by the“Preludium”grant no.2016/21/N/NZ8/01059;R.Z.by the“Harmonia”grant no.2018/30/M/NZ8/0052。
Mast seeding causes strongfluctuations in populations of forest animals.Thus,this phenomenon can be used as a natural experiment to examine how variation in host abundance affects parasite loads.We investigatedfleas inf...
supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Numbers JP18580155,JP21380103 and JP20H00436.
Although mature trees have substantial non-structural carbohydrate(NSC)storage that is well documented with respect to its capacity to buffer the asynchrony of supply and demand at the whole-plant level,its role in re...
granted by the postdoctoral fellowship CONACYT 2019–2020;funded by the DGAPA PAPIIT IN220621 project
Background:Tropical montane cloud forests are one of the most important hotspots on Earth and show presence of relict-endemic and endangered species,representing about 14%of the total tropical forest worldwide.Synchro...
supported by the National Natural Science Founda-tion of China(grant no.3177247,U1701246);the key project of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(grant nos.KJZD-EW-TZ-L01,XDB11050300).
Masting is an evolutionary strategy used by plants to promote seed survival and/or seed dispersal under animal predation,but its effects on seedling establishment in field condition are rarely tested by long-term expe...