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ReviewPhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2021

The ecology and evolution of synchronized reproduction in long-lived plants.

Mario B Pesendorfer, Davide Ascoli, Michał Bogdziewicz, Andrew Hacket-Pain, Ian S Pearse, Giorgio Vacchiano

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In one paragraph

Review in Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

17 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. 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 · 2022
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  5. Bioelectrical synchronization ofRoyal Society open science · 2025
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  10. The reduced growth due to elevated COFrontiers in plant science · 2024
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  12. Prediction of Suitable Habitat Distribution ofJournal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023
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  13. Prediction of the Potential Distributions ofJournal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023
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  15. Climate change and plant reproduction: trends and drivers of mast seeding change.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2021
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  16. Natural disturbances and masting: from mechanisms to fitness consequences.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2021
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  17. Understanding mast seeding for conservation and land management.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Mario B PesendorferInstitute of Forest Ecology, Department of Forest and Soil Sciences, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, A-1180 Vienna, Austria.ORCID 0000-0002-7994-7090
Davide AscoliDepartment of Agricultural, Forestry and Food Sciences, University of Torino, 10095 Grugliasco, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-2671-5122
Michał BogdziewiczDepartment of Systematic Zoology, Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University, 61-712 Poznań, Poland.ORCID 0000-0002-6777-9034
Andrew Hacket-PainDepartment of Geography and Planning, School of Environmental Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 3BX, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-3676-1568
Ian S PearseFort Collins Science Center, US Geological Survey, Fort Collins, CO 80526, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-7098-0495
Giorgio VacchianoDepartment of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, University of Milan, 20133 Milan, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-8100-0659

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Populations of many long-lived plants exhibit spatially synchronized seed production that varies extensively over time, so that seed production in some years is much higher than on average, while in others, it is much lower or absent. This phenomenon termed

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EcosystemReproductionEcologyHumansSeedsTreesadaptationclimate changeontogenyproximate mechanismsseed productionsynchrony

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PMID34657462
PMCPMC8520778

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