Mechanisms of mast seeding: resources, weather, cues, and selection

Fruiting Strategies of Perennial Plants: A Resource Budget Model to Couple Mast Seeding to Pollination Efficiency and Resource Allocation Strategies

(2016) Samuel Venner et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Fire effects on acorn production are consistent with the stored resource hypothesis for masting behavior

(2016) Kyle A. Funk et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

Is the relationship between mast-seeding and weather in oaks related to their life-history or phylogeny?

(2016) Walter D. Koenig et al.   ECOLOGY

Individual resource limitation combined with population-wide pollen availability drives masting in the valley oak (Quercus lobata)

(2016) Mario B. Pesendorfer et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Flowering time regulation in crops — what did we learn from Arabidopsis?

(2015) Martina Blümel et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

What drives masting? The phenological synchrony hypothesis

(2015) Walter D. Koenig et al.   ECOLOGY

Pollen limitation and flower abortion in a wind-pollinated, masting tree

(2015) Ian S. Pearse et al.   ECOLOGY

Environmental drivers of mast-seeding in Mediterranean oak species: does leaf habit matter?

(2015) Ignacio M. Pérez-Ramos et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Resource depletion, pollen coupling, and the ecology of mast seeding

(2014) Elizabeth E. Crone et al.   Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Nitrogen as a key regulator of flowering inFagus crenata: understanding the physiological mechanism of masting by gene expression analysis

(2014) Yuko Miyazaki et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Large-scale spatial synchrony and cross-synchrony in acorn production by two California oaks

(2013) Walter D. Koenig et al.   ECOLOGY

Are stored carbohydrates necessary for seed production in temperate deciduous trees?

(2013) Tomoaki Ichie et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Sex allocation, pollen limitation and masting in whitebark pine

(2013) Joshua M. Rapp et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Fruit production in three masting tree species does not rely on stored carbon reserves

(2013) Günter Hoch et al.   OECOLOGIA

Cues versus proximate drivers: testing the mechanism behind masting behavior

(2013) Ian S. Pearse et al.   OIKOS

Constraints to obtaining consistent annual yields in perennial tree crops. I: Heavy fruit load dominates over vegetative growth

(2013) Harley M. Smith et al.   PLANT SCIENCE

Environmental correlates of acorn production by four species of Minnesota oaks

(2013) Walter D. Koenig et al.   POPULATION ECOLOGY

Distribution of non-structural nitrogen and carbohydrate compounds in mature oak trees in a temperate forest at four key phenological stages

(2013) S. Bazot et al.   TREES-STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION

Challenges in studies on flowering time: interfaces between phenological research and the molecular network of flowering genes

(2012) Masaki J. Kobayashi et al.   ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH

Of mast and mean: differential-temperature cue makes mast seeding insensitive to climate change

(2012) Dave Kelly et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Stabilizing selection for within-season flowering phenology confirms pollen limitation in a wind-pollinated tree

(2012) Walter D. Koenig et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Masting in whitebark pine (Pinus albicaulis) depletes stored nutrients

(2012) Anna Sala et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

A re-evaluation of carbon storage in trees lends greater support for carbon limitation to growth

(2012) Erin Wiley et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Interrelationships among life-history traits in three California oaks

(2012) Brian C. Barringer et al.   OECOLOGIA

Masting uncoupling: mast seeding does not follow all mast flowering episodes in a dioecious juniper tree

(2012) Daniel Montesinos et al.   OIKOS

Evolution of jasmonate and salicylate signal crosstalk

(2012) Jennifer S. Thaler et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

Dynamics of mineral nutrient storage for mast reproduction in the tropical emergent tree Dryobalanops aromatica

(2011) Tomoaki Ichie et al.   ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH

Dynamics of internal carbon resources during masting behavior in trees

(2011) Yuko Miyazaki   ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH

Flowering in snow tussock (Chionochloa spp.) is influenced by temperature and hormonal cues

(2011) Matthew H. Turnbull et al.   FUNCTIONAL PLANT BIOLOGY

Climate cues and resources interact to determine seed production by a masting species

(2011) Simeon J. Smaill et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Genetic control of biennial bearing in apple

(2011) Baptiste Guitton et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Long-distance regulation of flowering time

(2011) C. Turnbull   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Testing Moran's theorem in an agroecosystem

(2011) Todd S. Rosenstock et al.   OIKOS

Masting in Fagus crenata and its influence on the nitrogen content and dry mass of winter buds

(2011) Q. Han et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

The functional response of a hoarding seed predator to mast seeding

(2010) Quinn E. Fletcher et al.   ECOLOGY

Mast seeding under increasing drought: results from a long-term data set and from a rainfall exclusion experiment

(2010) I. M. Pérez-Ramos et al.   ECOLOGY

Masting in ponderosa pine: comparisons of pollen and seed over space and time

(2010) Kailen A. Mooney et al.   OECOLOGIA

How plants manipulate the scatter-hoarding behaviour of seed-dispersing animals

(2010) S. B. Vander Wall   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Nitrogen storage and remobilization by trees: ecophysiological relevance in a changing world

(2010) P. Millard et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

How do plants know when other plants are flowering? Resource depletion, pollen limitation and mast-seeding in a perennial wildflower

(2009) Elizabeth E. Crone et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Spring 2007 warmth and frost: phenology, damage and refoliation in a temperate deciduous forest

(2009) Carol K. Augspurger   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

The role of large environmental noise in masting: General model and example from pistachio trees

(2009) Danielle Lyles et al.   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

Wood thrush nest success and post-fledging survival across a temporal pulse of small mammal abundance in an oak forest

(2008) Kenneth A. Schmidt et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Plant hormones and nutrient signaling

(2008) Vicente Rubio et al.   PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Mast seeding, predator satiation, and temperature cues in Chionochloa (Poaceae)

(2008) Dave Kelly et al.   POPULATION ECOLOGY