ArticlePhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2021
Climate change and plant reproduction: trends and drivers of mast seeding change.
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- Global patterns in the predator satiation effect of masting: A meta-analysis.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Pooled it
- Small rodents, huge impact: A scoping review of EuropeanOne health (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2026Review
- Oak masting under climate change: when spatially heterogeneous shifts in flowering phenology reshape pollen limitation.The New phytologist · 2026Article
- Plant functional groups modulate variation and covariation in leaf and seed traits across years.BMC plant biology · 2026Article
- Indirect effects of higher mean air temperature related to climate change on major life-history traits in a pulsed-resource consumer.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Weather drivers of reproductive variability in perennial plants and their implications for climate change risks.Nature communications · 2025Article
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- Forest Age Rivals Climate to Explain Reproductive Allocation Patterns in Forest Ecosystems Globally.Ecology letters · 2025Review
- Low but significant evolutionary potential for growth, phenology and reproduction traits in European beech.Molecular ecology · 2025Article
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- Effect of Resource Abundance on Woodland Rodents' Demography at Latitudinal Extremes in Europe.Ecology and evolution · 2025Article
- Growth decline in European beech associated with temperature-driven increase in reproductive allocation.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Continent-Wide Patterns of Climate and Mast Seeding Entrain Boreal Bird Irruptions.Global change biology · 2025Article
- Climate legacy in seed and seedling traits of European beech populations.Frontiers in plant science · 2024Article
- Mast seeding is stronger in taller plants.Frontiers in plant science · 2024Article
- Impact of climate change on allergic diseases in Germany.Journal of health monitoring · 2023Article
- Impact of climate change on vector- and rodent-borne infectious diseases.Journal of health monitoring · 2023Article
- Does mast seeding shape mating time in wild boar? A comparative study.Biology letters · 2022Article
- Climate change is associated with increased allocation to potential outcrossing in a common mixed mating species.American journal of botany · 2022Article
- MASTREE+: Time-series of plant reproductive effort from six continents.Global change biology · 2022Article
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Abstract
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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