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MASTREE+: Time-series of plant reproductive effort from six continents
Hacket-Pain
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Andrew J.
,
Foest
,
Jessie J.
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Pearse
,
Ian S.
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LaMontagne
,
Jalene M.
,
Koenig
,
Walter D.
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Vacchiano
,
Giorgio
,
Bogdziewicz
,
Michał
,
Caignard
,
Thomas
,
Celebias
,
Paulina
,
van Dormolen
,
Joep
,
Fernández-Martínez
,
Marcos
,
Moris
,
Jose V.
,
Palaghianu
,
Ciprian
,
Pesendorfer
,
Mario B.
,
Satake
,
Akiko
,
Schermer
,
Éliane
,
Tanentzap
,
Andrew J.
,
Thomas
,
Peter A.
,
Vecchio
,
Davide
,
Wion
,
Andreas P.
,
Wohlgemuth
,
Thomas
,
Xue
,
Tingting
,
Abernethy
,
Katharine A.
,
Aravena Acuña
,
Marie Claire
,
Barrera
,
Marcelo Daniel
,
Barton
,
Jessica H.
,
Boutin
,
Stan A.
,
Bush
,
Emma R.
,
Donoso Calderón
,
Sergio R.
,
Carevic
,
Felipe S.
,
Castilho
,
Carolina V.
,
Manuel Cellini
,
Juan
,
Chapman
,
Colin A.
,
Chapman
,
H. M.
,
Chianucci
,
Francesco
,
Costa
,
Patricia Da
,
Croisé
,
Luc
,
Cutini
,
Andrea
,
Dantzer
,
Ben J.
,
DeRose
,
Robert Justin
,
Dikangadissi
,
Jean Thoussaint
,
Dimoto
,
Edmond
,
da Fonseca
,
Fernanda Lopes
,
Gallo
,
Leonardo Ariel
,
Gratzer
,
Georg
,
Greene
,
David F.
,
Hadad
,
Martín Ariel
,
Huertas Herrera
,
Alejandro
,
Jeffery
,
Kathryn J.
,
Johnstone
,
Jill F.
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Kalbitzer
,
Urs
,
Kantorowicz
,
Władysław
,
Klimas
,
Christie Ann
,
Lageard
,
Jonathan G.A.
,
Lane
,
Jeffrey E.
,
Lapin
,
Katharina
,
Ledwoń
,
Mateusz
,
Leeper
,
Abigail C.
,
Lencinas
,
María Vanessa
,
Lira-Guedes
,
Ana Cláudia
,
Lordon
,
Michael C.
,
Marchelli
,
Paula
,
Marino
,
Shealyn
,
Schmidt van Marle
,
Harald
,
McAdam
,
Andrew G.
,
Momont
,
Ludovic R.W.
,
Nicolas
,
Manuel
,
de Oliveira Wadt
,
Lúcia Helena
,
Panahi
,
Parisa
,
Martínez Pastur
,
Guillermo J.
,
Patterson
,
Thomas W.
,
Luis Peri
,
Pablo
,
Piechnik
,
Łukasz
,
Pourhashemi
,
Mehdi
,
Espinoza Quezada
,
Claudia
,
Roig
,
Fidel Alejandro
,
Peña-Rojas
,
Karen A.
,
Rosas
,
Yamina Micaela
,
Schueler
,
Silvio
,
Seget
,
Barbara
,
Soler
,
Rosina M.
,
Steele
,
Michael A.
,
Toro Manríquez
,
Mónica Del Rosario
,
Tutin
,
Caroline E.G.
,
Ukizintambara
,
Tharcisse
,
White
,
Lee J.T.
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Yadok
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Biplang Godwill
,
Willis
,
John L.
,
Zolles
,
Anita
,
Żywiec
,
Magdalena
,
Ascoli
,
Davide
Mostra abstract
Significant gaps remain in understanding the response of plant reproduction to environmental change. This is partly because measuring reproduction in long-lived plants requires direct observation over many years and such datasets have rarely been made publicly available. Here we introduce MASTREE+, a data set that collates reproductive time-series data from across the globe and makes these data freely available to the community. MASTREE+ includes 73,828 georeferenced observations of annual reproduction (e.g. seed and fruit counts) in perennial plant populations worldwide. These observations consist of 5971 population-level time-series from 974 species in 66 countries. The mean and median time-series length is 12.4 and 10 years respectively, and the data set includes 1122 series that extend over at least two decades (≥20 years of observations). For a subset of well-studied species, MASTREE+ includes extensive replication of time-series across geographical and climatic gradients. Here we describe the open-access data set, available as a.csv file, and we introduce an associated web-based app for data exploration. MASTREE+ will provide the basis for improved understanding of the response of long-lived plant reproduction to environmental change. Additionally, MASTREE+ will enable investigation of the ecology and evolution of reproductive strategies in perennial plants, and the role of plant reproduction as a driver of ecosystem dynamics. © 2022 The Authors. Global Change Biology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
Characterizing the climatic niche of mast seeding in beech: Evidences of trade-offs between vegetation growth and seed production
Bajocco
,
Sofia
,
Ferrara
,
Carlotta
,
Bascietto
,
Marco
,
Alivernini
,
Alessandro
,
Chirichella
,
Roberta
,
Cutini
,
Andrea
,
Chianucci
,
Francesco
Mostra abstract
Masting is a complex mechanism which is mainly driven by a combination of internal plant resources and climatic conditions. While the driving role of climate in masting is being intensively studied, the interplay among climate, seed production, vegetation growth and phenology still needs further investigation. The objectives of this study were to identify the climatic determinants of different levels of seed production and of NDVI-based vegetation growth and phenology in European beech, and to evaluate if exists a trade-off between these two plant processes. To answer these questions, we used a 25-year-long dataset of beech seed production. We exploited the concept of ecological niche assuming that a mast year can be modeled like a species with variable preferences for different resources, which are the underlying annual climatic conditions; we performed an Ecological Niche Factor Analysis (ENFA), a presence-only modeling tool conventionally used in zoology and botany, and used seasonal (spring, summer, autumn) Standardized Precipitation-Evaporation Index (SPEI) observations, considering the current year (y−0), and up to one (y−1) and two (y−2) years before the masting event. For analyzing the role of vegetation growth and phenology, we used seasonal Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) values and associated NDVI-based phenological metrics derived from Landsat imagery. Results indicated the driving role of climate for masting, especially in VHSP years. A moist summer and dry spring at y−2 and a dry summer at y−1 represented the main driving climatic conditions for masting; while a moist spring during the observation year represented the key condition for triggering higher intensities of seed production. Summer NDVI at y−0 and y−1 represented the variables discriminating best between masting and non-masting years and resulted as driven by opposite summer climatic conditions than seed production, thus indicating a trade-off between seed production and vegetation phenology. We concluded that reproduction and vegetation growth act as two different climate-dependent plant responses in beech, in a way that certain conditions through the years promote mast seeding and the opposite conditions favor vegetation growth. The understanding of climate-growth-masting relationships represents indispensable knowledge for providing a holistic view of masting mechanisms and developing adaptive forest management strategies in this species. © 2020
Climate, tree masting and spatial behaviour in wild boar (Sus scrofa L.): insight from a long-term study
Bisi
,
Francesco
,
Chirichella
,
Roberta
,
Chianucci
,
Francesco
,
von Hardenberg
,
Jost Graf
,
Cutini
,
Andrea
,
Martinoli
,
Adriano
,
Apollonio
,
Marco
Mostra abstract
Key message: Climate factors affect seed biomass production which in turn influences autumn wild boar spatial behaviour. Adaptive management strategies require an understanding of both masting and its influence on the behaviour of pulsed resource consumers like wild boar. Context: Pulsed resources ecosystem could be strongly affected by climate. Disantangling the role of climate on mast seeding allow to understand a seed consumer spatial behaviour to design proper wildlife and forest management strategies. Aims: We investigated the relationship between mast seeding and climatic variables and we evaluated the influence of mast seeding on wild boar home range dynamics. Methods: We analysed mast seeding as seed biomass production of three broadleaf tree species (Fagus sylvatica L., Quercus cerris L., Castanea sativa Mill.) in the northern Apennines. Next, we explored which climatic variables affected tree masting patterns and finally we tested the effect of both climate and seed biomass production on wild boar home range size. Results: Seed biomass production is partially regulated by climate; high precipitation in spring of the current year positively affects seed biomass production while summer precipitation of previous year has an opposite effect. Wild boar home range size is negatively correlated to seed biomass production, and the climate only partially contributes to determine wild boar spatial behaviour. Conclusion: Climate factors influence mast seeding, and the negative correlation between wild boar home range and mast seeding should be taken into account for designing integrated, proactive hunting management. © 2018, INRA and Springer-Verlag France SAS, part of Springer Nature.