Decadal changes in masting behaviour of oak trees with rising temperature

Shibata, Mitsue; Masaki, Takashi; Yagihashi, Tsutomu; Shimada, Takuya; Saitoh, Takashi

doi:10.1111/1365-2745.13337

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“…The trend in Poland was attributed to forest aging more than to climate change [44]. In contrast, population-level interannual variation of seed production declined over the last four decades in Fagus sylvatica in England [8], in Q. crispula in Japan [45], and in Q. douglasii in California [46]. The decline in population-level interannual variation in F. sylvatica was a consequence of decreases in both individual-level interannual variation and among-tree synchrony.…”

Section: Fingerprints Of Climate Change Effects On Mast Seedingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The trends in F. sylvatica and Q. crispula correlated with warming, and are possibly driven by less frequent veto of reproduction by weather events [47]. In F. sylvatica, individual trees appear to lose their responsiveness to weather cues as the cues become more frequent (Bogdziewicz et al Accepted) In Q. crispula, more frequent warm springs appear to facilitate efficient pollination, which likely leads to more regular reproduction [45].…”

Section: Fingerprints Of Climate Change Effects On Mast Seedingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…AR-1 can be interpreted as indirect evidence of resource depletion after mast years that limits seed production in years that follow [76]. In that context, it can be used to assess temporal changes in resource depletion [45]. From a fitness perspective, the specific sequence of low-seed and high-seed years should help escape predation [18], although the evidence for this is mixed [40,41].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In Poland, population-level temporal autocorrelation in seed production became more negative during the last half century in F. sylvatica, A. alba, and P. abies, and remained unchanged in L. decidua, P. sylvestris, Q. petraea, and Q. robur [44]. In Quercus crispula in Japan, temporal autocorrelation of seed production became less negative over the last four decades [45], while individual-level analysis reported no change in temporal autocorrelation in English populations of F. sylvatica [8]. Efforts to untangle the drivers of these changes in autocorrelation, and test whether they are linked to climate change remain underdeveloped.…”

Section: Temporal Autocorrelationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Efforts to untangle the drivers of these changes in autocorrelation, and test whether they are linked to climate change remain underdeveloped. For example, Shibata et al [45] suggested a link between declining autocorrelation and rising temperatures and increased resource availability, but this has not yet been tested. Pesendorfer et al [44] highlighted the relevance of changes in ontogeny, showing that the reported decline of autocorrelation in Polish F. sylvatica and P. abies forests was correlated with increased mean tree age.…”

Section: Temporal Autocorrelationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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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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Section: Fingerprints Of Climate Change Effects On Mast Seedingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Fingerprints Of Climate Change Effects On Mast Seedingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Temporal Autocorrelationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Temporal Autocorrelationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Temporal Autocorrelationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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

Hacket‐Pain¹,

Bogdziewicz²

2021

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The contribution of carbon budget to masting intervals in Veratrum album populations inhabiting different elevations

Ito,

Kudo

2024

American J of Botany

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PremiseMast flowering/seeding is often more extreme in lower‐resource environments, such as alpine compared to lowland habitats. We studied a masting herb that had less extreme masting at higher elevations, and tested if this difference could be explained by higher photosynthetic productivity and/or lower reproductive investment at the higher‐elevation sites.MethodsWe examined the relationship between flowering intervals and carbon budget (i.e., the balance between reproductive investment and annual carbon fixation) in a masting herb, Veratrum album subsp. oxysepalum, across five lowland and six alpine populations in northern Japan. We evaluated the previous flowering histories of individual plants based on rhizome morphology and analyzed the masting patterns of individual populations. Total mass of the reproductive organs, as a proxy of reproductive investment, was compared between the lowland and alpine populations. Annual carbon fixation was estimated on the basis of photosynthetic capacity, total leaf area per plant, and seasonal transition of light availability.ResultsInterval between high‐flowering years was shorter and total reproductive investment was smaller in the alpine than in the lowland populations. Owing to its high photosynthetic capacity and continuous bright conditions, annual carbon fixation per plant was 1.5 times greater in alpine habitat than in lowland habitat. These results suggest that V. album alpine populations have shorter flowering intervals than lowland populations due to faster recovery from energy loss after reproduction.ConclusionsOur study demonstrated that masting intervals in V. album populations can be explained by habitat‐specific carbon budget balances.

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Environmental variation drives continental‐scale synchrony of European beech reproduction

Bogdziewicz

Hacket‐Pain

Ascoli

et al. 2021

Ecology

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Spatial synchrony is the tendency of spatially separated populations to display similar temporal fluctuations. Synchrony affects regional ecosystem functioning, but it remains difficult to disentangle its underlying mechanisms. We leveraged regression on distance matrices and geography of synchrony to understand the processes driving synchrony of European beech masting over the European continent. Masting in beech shows distance‐decay, but significant synchrony is maintained at spatial scales of up to 1,500 km. The spatial synchrony of the weather cues that drive interannual variation in reproduction also explains the regional spatial synchrony of masting. Proximity played no apparent role in influencing beech masting synchrony after controlling for synchrony in environmental variation. Synchrony of beech reproduction shows a clear biogeographical pattern, decreasing from the northwest to southeast Europe. Synchrony networks for weather cues resemble networks for beech masting, indicating that the geographical structure of weather synchrony underlies the biogeography of masting synchrony. Our results support the hypothesis that environmental factors, the Moran effect, are key drivers of spatial synchrony in beech seed production at regional scales. The geographical patterns of regional synchronization of masting have implications for regional forest production, gene flow, carbon cycling, disease dynamics, biodiversity, and conservation.

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Decadal changes in masting behaviour of oak trees with rising temperature

Cited by 39 publications

References 76 publications

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

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

The contribution of carbon budget to masting intervals in Veratrum album populations inhabiting different elevations

Environmental variation drives continental‐scale synchrony of European beech reproduction

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