Weather as main driver for masting and stem growth variation in stone pine supports compatible timber and nut co-production

Shestakova, Tatiana A.; Mutke, Sven; Gordo, Javier; Camarero, J. Julio; Sin, E.; Pemán, Jesús; Voltas, Jordi

doi:10.1016/j.agrformet.2020.108287

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“…Mechanisms responsible for changes in spatial synchrony of reproduction in F. sylvatica were less clear, as the weather cue that correlated with seed production showed no trends in spatial synchrony [34]. An increase in within-population synchrony of seed production was also reported in Pinus pinea, but the drivers were untested [71]. In other work, F. sylvatica populations in England showed a declining trend of within-population (among trees) and among-population synchrony of seed production over the past four decades [8].…”

Section: Synchronymentioning

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Climate change and plant reproduction: trends and drivers of mast seeding change

Hacket‐Pain

Bogdziewicz

2021

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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Climate change is reshaping global vegetation through its impacts on plant mortality, but recruitment creates the next generation of plants and will determine the structure and composition of future communities. Recruitment depends on mean seed production, but also on the interannual variability and among-plant synchrony in seed production, the phenomenon known as mast seeding. Thus, predicting the long-term response of global vegetation dynamics to climate change requires understanding the response of masting to changing climate. Recently, data and methods have become available allowing the first assessments of long-term changes in masting. Reviewing the literature, we evaluate evidence for a fingerprint of climate change on mast seeding and discuss the drivers and impacts of these changes. We divide our discussion into the main characteristics of mast seeding: interannual variation, synchrony, temporal autocorrelation and mast frequency. Data indicate that masting patterns are changing but the direction of that change varies, likely reflecting the diversity of proximate factors underlying masting across taxa. Experiments to understand the proximate mechanisms underlying masting, in combination with the analysis of long-term datasets, will enable us to understand this observed variability in the response of masting. This will allow us to predict future shifts in masting patterns, and consequently ecosystem impacts of climate change via its impacts on masting. This article is part of the theme issue ‘The ecology and evolution of synchronized seed production in plants’.

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Climate change and plant reproduction: trends and drivers of mast seeding change

Hacket‐Pain

Bogdziewicz

2021

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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“…Mechanisms responsible for changes in spatial synchrony of reproduction in F. sylvatica were less clear, as the weather cue that correlated with seed production showed no trends in spatial synchrony [44]. An increase in within-population synchrony of seed production was also reported in Pinus pinea, but the drivers were untested [68]. In other work, F. sylvatica populations in England showed a declining trend of within-population (among trees) and amongpopulation synchrony of seed production over the last four decades [8].…”

Section: Synchronymentioning

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Climate change and plant reproduction: trends and drivers of mast seeding change

Hacket‐Pain¹,

Bogdziewicz²

2021

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Climate change is reshaping global vegetation through its impacts on plant mortality, but recruitment creates the next generation of plants and will determine the structure and composition of future communities. Recruitment depends on mean seed production, but also on the interannual variability and among-plant synchrony in seed production, the phenomenon known as mast seeding. Thus, predicting the long-term response of global vegetation dynamics to climate change requires understanding the response of masting to changing climate. Recently, data and methods have become available allowing the first assessments of long-term changes in masting. Reviewing the literature, we evaluate evidence for a fingerprint of climate change on mast seeding and discuss the drivers and impacts of these changes. We divide our discussion into the main characteristics of mast seeding: interannual variation, synchrony, temporal autocorrelation, and mast frequency. Data indicate that masting patterns, are changing, but the direction of that change varies, likely reflecting the diversity of proximate factors underlying masting across taxa. Experiments to understand the proximate mechanisms underlying masting, in combination with the analysis of long-term datasets, will enable us to understand this observed variability in the response of masting. This will allow us to predict future shifts in masting patterns, and consequently ecosystem impacts of climate change via its impacts on masting.

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“…In the Northern Hemisphere, the NAO is one of the major climate modes concordant with plant reproduction (electronic supplementary material, table S1), particularly in Europe (figure 1) where the NAO index [21] correlates to the timing, variability and synchrony of flowering, pollination and seed production of dominant forest species [13,30,37,[48][49][50][51][52].…”

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“…Successful masting depends on the completion of consecutive stages of the reproductive process (i.e. resource uptake, floral induction, pollination and seed maturation), often spanning multiple seasons or years [10][11][12][13]. Weather can affect each stage by priming resource uptake, cueing floral bud formation, influencing pollination success or vetoing seed production [11,14].…”

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Modes of climate variability bridge proximate and evolutionary mechanisms of masting

Ascoli

Hacket‐Pain

Pearse

et al. 2021

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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There is evidence that variable and synchronous reproduction in seed plants (masting) correlates to modes of climate variability, e.g. El Niño Southern Oscillation and North Atlantic Oscillation. In this perspective, we explore the breadth of knowledge on how climate modes control reproduction in major masting species throughout Earth's biomes. We posit that intrinsic properties of climate modes (periodicity, persistence and trends) drive interannual and decadal variability of plant reproduction, as well as the spatial extent of its synchrony, aligning multiple proximate causes of masting through space and time. Moreover, climate modes force lagged but in-phase ecological processes that interact synergistically with multiple stages of plant reproductive cycles. This sets up adaptive benefits by increasing offspring fitness through either economies of scale or environmental prediction. Community-wide links between climate modes and masting across plant taxa suggest an evolutionary role of climate variability. We argue that climate modes may ‘bridge’ proximate and ultimate causes of masting selecting for variable and synchronous reproduction. The future of such interaction is uncertain: processes that improve reproductive fitness may remain coupled with climate modes even under changing climates, but chances are that abrupt global warming will affect Earth's climate modes so rapidly as to alter ecological and evolutionary links. This article is part of the theme issue ‘The ecology and evolution of synchronized seed production in plants’.

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Weather as main driver for masting and stem growth variation in stone pine supports compatible timber and nut co-production

Cited by 11 publications

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Climate change and plant reproduction: trends and drivers of mast seeding change

Climate change and plant reproduction: trends and drivers of mast seeding change

Climate change and plant reproduction: trends and drivers of mast seeding change

Modes of climate variability bridge proximate and evolutionary mechanisms of masting

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