ArticlePhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2021
Macroevolutionary consequences of mast seeding.
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- Weather drivers of reproductive variability in perennial plants and their implications for climate change risks.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Intraspecific variation in masting across climate gradients is inconsistent with the environmental stress hypothesis.Ecology · 2025Article
- Relatives reproduce in synchrony: kinship and individual condition shape intraspecific variation in masting phenotype.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2024Article
- Mast seeding is stronger in taller plants.Frontiers in plant science · 2024Article
- Evolution of masting in plants is linked to investment in low tissue mortality.Nature communications · 2023Article
- MASTREE+: Time-series of plant reproductive effort from six continents.Global change biology · 2022Article
- Emerging infectious disease triggered a trophic cascade and enhanced recruitment of a masting tree.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2022Article
- Natural disturbances and masting: from mechanisms to fitness consequences.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2021Review
- The ecology and evolution of synchronized reproduction in long-lived plants.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2021Review
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Abstract
Masting characterizes large, intermittent and highly synchronous seeding events among individual plants and is found throughout the plant Tree of Life (ToL). Although masting can increase plant fitness, little is known about whether it results in evolutionary changes across entire clades, such as by promoting speciation or enhanced trait selection. Here, we tested if masting has macroevolutionary consequences by combining the largest existing dataset of population-level reproductive time series and time-calibrated phylogenetic tree of vascular plants. We found that the coefficient of variation (CV
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