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Individual reproductive success in Norway spruce natural populations depends on growth rate, age and sensitivity to temperature

Camilla Avanzi
Katrin Heer
Andrea Piotti
Research16 Mar 2020
Heredity

Volume: 124, P: 685-698
Reply to: Nutrient scarcity cannot cause mast seeding

M. Fernández-Martínez
J. Sardans
I. A. Janssens
Research22 Jun 2020
Nature Plants

Volume: 6, P: 763-765
Masting is uncommon in trees that depend on mutualist dispersers in the context of global climate and fertility gradients

A new method to quantify three masting components from individual tree-years has revealed that globally, masting is uncommon in tree species that depend on mutualist dispersers, with its distribution further mediated by climate and nutrient availability.

Tong Qiu
Marie-Claire Aravena
James S. Clark
Research29 Jun 2023
Nature Plants

Volume: 9, P: 1044-1056
Limits to reproduction and seed size-number trade-offs that shape forest dominance and future recovery

The relationships that control seed production in trees are key to understand evolutionary pressures that have shaped forests. A global synthesis of fecundity data reveals that while seed production is not constrained by a strict size-number trade-off, it is influenced by taxonomy and nutrient allocation.

Tong Qiu
Robert Andrus
James S. Clark
ResearchOpen Access02 May 2022
Nature Communications

Volume: 13, P: 1-12
Nutrient scarcity as a selective pressure for mast seeding

Mast seeding is a reproductive trait of some perennial plants that display synchronous, highly variable annual production of fruit. The drivers of mast seeding are not well understood. Here, the authors report a global-scale investigation of masting behaviour and reveal a link with nutrient economy.

M. Fernández-Martínez
I. Pearse
I. A. Janssens
Research02 Dec 2019
Nature Plants

Volume: 5, P: 1222-1228
Climate warming disrupts mast seeding and its fitness benefits in European beech

Masting, synchronous year-to-year variation in seed production, increases pollination efficiency and reduces seed loss to predators. Climate warming over recent decades has increased seed production but decreased masting, favouring seed predators over plants.

Michał Bogdziewicz
Dave Kelly
Andrew Hacket-Pain
Research10 Feb 2020
Nature Plants

Volume: 6, P: 88-94
Jet stream position explains regional anomalies in European beech forest productivity and tree growth

Here the authors show that extremes in the summer jet stream position over Europe create a beech forest productivity dipole between northwestern and southeastern Europe and can result in regional anomalies in forest carbon uptake and growth.

Isabel Dorado-Liñán
Blanca Ayarzagüena
Valerie Trouet
ResearchOpen Access19 Apr 2022
Nature Communications

Volume: 13, P: 1-10
Inter-annual and decadal changes in teleconnections drive continental-scale synchronization of tree reproduction

Climate oscillations affect weather on different temporal-spatial scales, which poses difficulty in understanding how they influence tree reproduction. Here Ascoli et al. show relationships between low- and high-frequency components of the NAO and masting in two European tree species across multiple decades.

Davide Ascoli
Giorgio Vacchiano
Andrew Hacket-Pain
ResearchOpen Access20 Dec 2017
Nature Communications

Volume: 8, P: 1-9
Climate-change-driven growth decline of European beech forests

Tree ring data from a network of beech tree stands across Europe show evidence for a recent growth decline from 1986-2016 and project up to 50% growth reductions in some areas of Europe with future climate change.

Edurne Martinez del Castillo
Christian S. Zang
Martin de Luis
ResearchOpen Access10 Mar 2022
Communications Biology

Volume: 5, P: 1-9

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