Authors
Tong Qiu, Marie-Claire Aravena, Davide Ascoli, Yves Bergeron, Michal Bogdziewicz, Thomas Boivin, Raul Bonal, Thomas Caignard, Maxime Cailleret, Rafael Calama, Sergio Donoso Calderon, J Julio Camarero, Chia-Hao Chang-Yang, Jerome Chave, Francesco Chianucci, Benoit Courbaud, Andrea Cutini, Adrian J Das, Nicolas Delpierre, Sylvain Delzon, Michael Dietze, Laurent Dormont, Josep Maria Espelta, Timothy J Fahey, William Farfan-Rios, Jerry F Franklin, Catherine A Gehring, Gregory S Gilbert, Georg Gratzer, Cathryn H Greenberg, Arthur Guignabert, Qinfeng Guo, Andrew Hacket-Pain, Arndt Hampe, Qingmin Han, Jan Holik, Kazuhiko Hoshizaki, Ines Ibanez, Jill F Johnstone, Valentin Journé, Thomas Kitzberger, Johannes MH Knops, Georges Kunstler, Hiroko Kurokawa, Jonathan GA Lageard, Jalene M LaMontagne, Francois Lefevre, Theodor Leininger, Jean-Marc Limousin, James A Lutz, Diana Macias, Anders Marell, Eliot JB McIntire, Christopher M Moore, Emily Moran, Renzo Motta, Jonathan A Myers, Thomas A Nagel, Shoji Naoe, Mahoko Noguchi, Michio Oguro, Robert Parmenter, Ian S Pearse, Ignacio M Perez-Ramos, Lukasz Piechnik, Tomasz Podgorski, John Poulsen, Miranda D Redmond, Chantal D Reid, Kyle C Rodman, Francisco Rodriguez-Sanchez, Pavel Samonil, Javier D Sanguinetti, C Lane Scher, Barbara Seget, Shubhi Sharma, Mitsue Shibata, Miles Silman, Michael A Steele, Nathan L Stephenson, Jacob N Straub, Samantha Sutton, Jennifer J Swenson, Margaret Swift, Peter A Thomas, Maria Uriarte, Giorgio Vacchiano, Amy V Whipple, Thomas G Whitham, Andreas P Wion, S Joseph Wright, Kai Zhu, Jess K Zimmerman, Magdalena Zywiec, James S Clark
Publication date
2023/7
Journal
Nature Plants
Volume
9
Issue
7
Pages
1044-1056
Publisher
Nature Publishing Group UK
Description
The benefits of masting (volatile, quasi-synchronous seed production at lagged intervals) include satiation of seed predators, but these benefits come with a cost to mutualist pollen and seed dispersers. If the evolution of masting represents a balance between these benefits and costs, we expect mast avoidance in species that are heavily reliant on mutualist dispersers. These effects play out in the context of variable climate and site fertility among species that vary widely in nutrient demand. Meta-analyses of published data have focused on variation at the population scale, thus omitting periodicity within trees and synchronicity between trees. From raw data on 12 million tree-years worldwide, we quantified three components of masting that have not previously been analysed together: (i) volatility, defined as the frequency-weighted year-to-year variation; (ii) periodicity, representing the lag between high-seed years …
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