mast seeding
Snow tussocks, chaos, and the evolution of mast seeding
... studying mast seed- ing (synchronous intermittent heavy flowering by a population of perennial plants) is determining the relative roles of weather, plant reserves, and evolutionary selective pressures such as ...
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Causes and consequences of frequent flowering on edges in the mast-seeding genus Chionochloa (Poaceae)
... of mast seeding (the synchronous intermittent production of large seed crops by a population of plants; Kelly 1994) are still the focus of much research and ...speculation. Mast seeding is a ...
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Mast seeding and flowering in Mediterranean oak woodlands under increasing drought: results from a long-term dataset and from a rainfall exclusion experiment
... Mast seeding - the synchronous highly variable seed production among years 1.. - is very common in tree species, but there is no consensus about its main causes and the main 2.[r] ...
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Nature beyond linearity : meteorological variability and Jensen's inequality can explain mast seeding behaviour
... INTRODUCTION Mast seeding, or masting, is a reproductive behavior characterized by an extremely irregular and synchronized production of fruit taking place at the population, community, or ecosystem level ( ...
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From theory to experiments for testing the proximate mechanisms of mast seeding: an agenda for an experimental ecology
... There have been few attempts to manipulate pollen levels experimentally, at least in the wind-pollinated species that disproportionately exhibit masting. In the case of phenologi- cal synchrony, no experimental test has ...
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Environmental drivers of mast-seeding in Mediterranean oak species: does leaf habit matter?
... The strongest environmental drivers of mast-seeding in Mediterranean oaks were weather factors 366. related to water resources (mainly precipitation and water deficit), which exercised [r] ...
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Is the relationship between mast-seeding and weather in oaks related to their life-history or phylogeny?
... October 2016 RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MAST- SEEDING AND WEATHER 2611 deciduous and evergreen species in the overall effect of water resources and temperature on mast seeding. Here we addressed ...
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Diapause by seed predators and parasitoids in Chionochloa mast seeding communities
... of the Southwestern corn borer Diatraea grandiosella under laboratory conditions resume active development after diapause earlier than males. Under field condition however, there was no difference in timing of emergence ...
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From theory to experiments for testing the proximate mechanisms of mast seeding: an agenda for an experimental ecology
... 1) Resource dynamics Resource matching Macronutrient addition Increase in current growth and reproduction - fully-crossed addition of different macronutrients - monitoring o[r] ...
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Is the relationship between mast-seeding and weather in oaks related to their life-history or phylogeny?
... Identifying acorn type—whether acorns mature in one or two years—was highly successful (P < 0.001) using each of the five sets of variables, the most significant factors being corr[r] ...
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Spatial patterns and broad-scale weather cues of beech mast seeding in Europe.
... 3 Hierarchical clustering of NUTS-1 masting chronologies (1950-2014) based on Suzuki’s dissimilarity index (red: eastern cluster, green: northern, blue: southern, grey: no data within b[r] ...
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Spatial patterns and broad-scale weather cues of beech mast seeding in Europe
... Spearman’s correlation between monthly maximum temperature (1950-2014) and NUTS-1 masting chronologies for beech. NUTS-1 ordered and colored according to the cluster they belong to (col[r] ...
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A seeding based cellular assay of tauopathy
... our seeding based cell assay can simulate the in vivo conditions and is compatible with its regulatory mechanisms, different methods were used to manipulate autophagy in the seeding based cell assay ...
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Mast cells in inflammatory arthritis
... degranulated mast cell can recharge and fire again [40,41]. Some mast cell mediators have effects such as the promotion of angiogenesis, whose relevance is more evident after the acute inflammatory response ...
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Seeding the Cloud Library. precipitating change
... Consumer library must have sufficient confidence in on-demand availability of shared print inventory to justify relegation or discard. justify relegation or discard[r] ...
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Grass Seeding Response to Halogeton Competition.
... Data collected when the grass plants were in their fourth growing season showed that all wheatgrass species on areas sprayed for two consecutive years had deeper[r] ...
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Rootplowing and seeding arid rangelands in the Southwest.
... Highlight: Twenty-three seedings were made across southern New Mexico following roofplowing of creosotebush or rarbush. Even under droughty conditions, there generally[r] ...
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Seeding And Fertilization Using An Automated Robot
... Robotics is one of the fastest growing engineering fields of today. Millions of dollars are spent every year on the developments of robots to be used in all sorts of field. The use of robots is more common today than ...
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Economics of Seeding Rate in Crop Yield
... The present study constructs a decision support system to determine the best seeding rate out of a group of seeding rates applied in the field. The DSS has been built receives the field data as inputs, and ...
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Impurity transport studies on MAST
... far. MAST and NSTX, two of the world’s leading STs, provide an ideal opportunity to study the transport properties of impurities in high temperature, low aspect ratio and highly elongated ...on MAST on the ...
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