SynthesisProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2022
Global patterns in the predator satiation effect of masting: A meta-analysis.
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- Trait-Mediated Seed Predation and Dispersal Are Regulated by Seed Abundance for Sympatric Tree Species in the Qinling Mountains, China.Ecology and evolution · 2026Article
- Trait Hierarchy and Interactive Effects Govern Seed Fate in Rodent-Mediated Dispersal: Insights from Coat Thickness, Nutrients, and Tannins.Integrative zoology · 2026Article
- Acorn Availability Reduces Agricultural Damage by Ungulates.Ecology and evolution · 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
- Geography of masting creates greater synchrony in seed scarcity than in seed abundance.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Functional Traits Shape Seed-Rodent Interactions in a Subtropical Forest: Insights From Individual-Based Tracking With Double-Duplex PIT Tagging.Ecology and evolution · 2025Article
- Weather drivers of reproductive variability in perennial plants and their implications for climate change risks.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Effect of Resource Abundance on Woodland Rodents' Demography at Latitudinal Extremes in Europe.Ecology and evolution · 2025Article
- Do savanna trees mast? Phenological dynamics of flowering and fruiting in savanna tree species.Oecologia · 2025Article
- Intraspecific variation in masting across climate gradients is inconsistent with the environmental stress hypothesis.Ecology · 2025Article
- Masting ontogeny: the largest masting benefits accrue to the largest trees.Annals of botany · 2025Article
- Tracking individual seed fate confirms mainly antagonistic interactions between rodents and European beech.Biology letters · 2025Article
- Masting promotes transformation from predation to mutualism in an oak-weevil-rodent system.Science China. Life sciences · 2024Article
- Summer solstice orchestrates the subcontinental-scale synchrony of mast seeding.Nature plants · 2024Article
- No evidence of carbon storage usage for seed production in 18 dipterocarp masting species in a tropical rain forest.Oecologia · 2024Article
- 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
- Masting is uncommon in trees that depend on mutualist dispersers in the context of global climate and fertility gradients.Nature plants · 2023Article
- Shrub density effects on the presence of an endangered lizard of the Carrizo Plain National Monument, California.Ecology and evolution · 2023Article
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Abstract
SignificanceMasting, or synchronous production of large seed crops, is widespread among plants. The predator satiation hypothesis states that masting evolved to overwhelm seed predators with an excess of food. Yet, this popular explanation faced few rigorous tests. We conducted a meta-analysis of studies that related the magnitude of seed production to the intensity of seed predation. Our results validate certain theoretical notions (e.g., that predator satiation is more effective at higher latitudes) but challenge others (e.g., that specialist and generalist consumers differ in the type of functional response to masting). We also found that masting is losing its ability to satiate consumers, probably because global warming affected masting patterns. This shift might considerably impair the reproduction of masting plants.
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