Cristina García, Josep María Espelta, Arndt Hampe,
... and long-established broadleaf forests in NE Spain, Espelta et al. (2020) show that secondary forests tend ...
Tópico(s): Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
2020 - Wiley | Journal of Applied Ecology
Javier Retana, Josep María Espelta, Marc Gracia, Miquel Riba,
... such as drought or light limitation (Pons 1992; Espelta et al. 1995), and availability of suitable microsites ...
Tópico(s): Botany, Ecology, and Taxonomy Studies
1999 - Springer Nature | Ecological studies
Jorgina Lucas-Noll, Josep Lluís Clua‐Espuny, Mar Lleixà-Fortuño, Ester Gavaldà-Espelta, Lluïsa Queralt-Tomas, Anna Panisello-Tafalla, Misericòrdia Carles-Lavila,
Stroke, a leading cause of death and long-term disability, has a considerable social and economic impact. It is imperative to investigate stroke-related costs. The main goal was to conduct a systematic literature review on the described costs associated with stroke care continuum to better understand the evolution of the economic burden and logistic challenges. This research used a systematic review method. We performed a search in PubMed/MEDLINE, ClinicalTrial.gov, Cochrane Reviews, and Google ...
Tópico(s): Neurological Disorders and Treatments
2023 - BioMed Central | Health Economics Review
Tong Qiu, Marie‐Claire Aravena Acuña, Davide Ascoli, Yves Bergeron, Michał Bogdziewicz, Thomas Boivin, Raúl Bonal, Thomas Caignard, Maxime Cailleret, Rafael Calama, Sergio Donoso Calderón, J. Julio Camarero, Chia‐Hao Chang‐Yang, Jérôme Chave, Francesco Chianucci, Benoı̂t Courbaud, Andrea Cutini, Adrian J. Das, Nicolas Delpierre, Sylvain Delzon, Michael C. Dietze, Laurent Dormont, Josep María Espelta, Timothy J. Fahey, William Farfán-Ríos, Jerry F. Franklin, Catherine A. Gehring, Gregory S. Gilbert, Georg Gratzer, Cathryn H. Greenberg, Arthur Guignabert, Qinfeng Guo, Andrew Hacket‐Pain, Arndt Hampe, Qingmin Han, Jan Holík, Kazuhiko Hoshizaki, Inés Ibáñez, Jill F. Johnstone, Valentin Journé, Thomas Kitzberger, Johannes M. H. Knops, Georges Künstler, Hiroko Kurokawa, Jonathan G. A. Lageard, Jalene M. LaMontagne, François Lefèvre, Theodor D. Leininger, Jean‐Marc Limousin, James A. Lutz, Diana Macias, Anders Mårell, Eliot J. B. McIntire, Christopher M. Moore, Emily Moran, Renzo Motta, Jonathan A. Myers, Thomas A. Nagel, Shoji Naoe, Mahoko Noguchi, Michio Oguro, Robert Parmenter, Ian S. Pearse, Ignacio Manuel Pérez-Ramos, Łukasz Piechnik, Tomasz Podgórski, John R. Poulsen, Miranda D. Redmond, Chantal D. Reid, Kyle C. Rodman, Francisco Rodríguez‐Sánchez, Pavel Šamonil, Javier Sanguinetti, C. Lane Scher, Barbara Seget, Shubhi Sharma, Mitsue Shibata, Miles R. Silman, Michael A. Steele, Nathan L. Stephenson, Jacob N. Straub, Samantha Sutton, Jennifer J. Swenson, Margaret Swift, Peter A. Thomas, María Uriarte, Giorgio Vacchiano, Amy V. Whipple, Thomas G. Whitham, Andreas P. Wion, S. Joseph Wright, Kai Zhu, Jess K. Zimmerman, Magdalena Żywiec, James S. Clark,
The benefits of masting (volatile, quasi-synchronous seed production at lagged intervals) include satiation of seed predators, but these benefits come with a cost to mutualist pollen and seed dispersers. If the evolution of masting represents a balance between these benefits and costs, we expect mast avoidance in species that are heavily reliant on mutualist dispersers. These effects play out in the context of variable climate and site fertility among species that vary widely in nutrient demand. ...
Tópico(s): Ecosystem dynamics and resilience
2023 - Nature Portfolio | Nature Plants
Valentin Journé, Robert A. Andrus, Marie‐Claire Aravena Acuña, Davide Ascoli, Roberta Berretti, Daniel Berveiller, Michał Bogdziewicz, Thomas Boivin, Raúl Bonal, Thomas Caignard, Rafael Calama, J. Julio Camarero, Chia‐Hao Chang‐Yang, Benoı̂t Courbaud, François Courbet, T. Curt, Adrian J. Das, Evangelia N. Daskalakou, Hendrik Davi, Nicolas Delpierre, Sylvain Delzon, Michael C. Dietze, Sergio Donoso Calderón, Laurent Dormont, Josep María Espelta, Timothy J. Fahey, William Farfán-Ríos, Catherine A. Gehring, Gregory S. Gilbert, Georg Gratzer, Cathryn H. Greenberg, Qinfeng Guo, Andrew Hacket‐Pain, Arndt Hampe, Qingmin Han, Janneke Hille Ris Lambers, Kazuhiko Hoshizaki, Inés Ibáñez, Jill F. Johnstone, Daisuke Kabeya, Roland Kays, Thomas Kitzberger, Johannes M. H. Knops, Richard K. Kobe, Georges Künstler, Jonathan G. A. Lageard, Jalene M. LaMontagne, Theodor D. Leininger, Jean‐Marc Limousin, James A. Lutz, Diana Macias, Eliot J. B. McIntire, Christopher M. Moore, Emily Moran, Renzo Motta, Jonathan A. Myers, Thomas A. Nagel, Kyotaro Noguchi, Jean‐Marc Ourcival, Robert Parmenter, Ian S. Pearse, Ignacio Manuel Pérez-Ramos, Łukasz Piechnik, John R. Poulsen, Renata Poulton‐Kamakura, Tong Qiu, Miranda D. Redmond, Chantal D. Reid, Kyle C. Rodman, Francisco Rodríguez‐Sánchez, Javier Sanguinetti, C. Lane Scher, Harald Schmidt Van Marle, Barbara Seget, Shubhi Sharma, Miles R. Silman, Michael A. Steele, Nathan L. Stephenson, Jacob N. Straub, Jennifer J. Swenson, Margaret Swift, Peter A. Thomas, María Uriarte, Giorgio Vacchiano, Thomas T. Veblen, Amy V. Whipple, Thomas G. Whitham, Boyd R. Wright, S. Joseph Wright, Kai Zhu, Jess K. Zimmerman, Roman Zlotin, Magdalena Żywiec, James S. Clark,
Lack of tree fecundity data across climatic gradients precludes the analysis of how seed supply contributes to global variation in forest regeneration and biotic interactions responsible for biodiversity. A global synthesis of raw seedproduction data shows a 250-fold increase in seed abundance from cold-dry to warm-wet climates, driven primarily by a 100-fold increase in seed production for a given tree size. The modest (threefold) increase in forest productivity across the same climate gradient ...
Tópico(s): Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
2022 - Wiley | Ecology Letters
Tong Qiu, Robert A. Andrus, Marie‐Claire Aravena Acuña, Davide Ascoli, Yves Bergeron, Roberta Berretti, Daniel Berveiller, Michał Bogdziewicz, Thomas Boivin, Raúl Bonal, Don C. Bragg, Thomas Caignard, Rafael Calama, J. Julio Camarero, Chia‐Hao Chang‐Yang, Natalie L. Cleavitt, Benoı̂t Courbaud, François Courbet, T. Curt, Adrian J. Das, Evangelia N. Daskalakou, Hendrik Davi, Nicolas Delpierre, Sylvain Delzon, Michael C. Dietze, Sergio Donoso Calderón, Laurent Dormont, Josep María Espelta, Timothy J. Fahey, William Farfán-Ríos, Catherine A. Gehring, Gregory S. Gilbert, Georg Gratzer, Cathryn H. Greenberg, Qinfeng Guo, Andrew Hacket‐Pain, Arndt Hampe, Qingmin Han, Janneke Hille Ris Lambers, Kazuhiko Hoshizaki, Inés Ibáñez, Jill F. Johnstone, Valentin Journé, Daisuke Kabeya, Christopher L. Kilner, Thomas Kitzberger, Johannes M. H. Knops, Richard K. Kobe, Georges Künstler, Jonathan G. A. Lageard, Jalene M. LaMontagne, Mateusz Ledwoń, François Lefèvre, Theodor D. Leininger, Jean‐Marc Limousin, James A. Lutz, Diana Macias, Eliot J. B. McIntire, Christopher M. Moore, Emily Moran, Renzo Motta, Jonathan A. Myers, Thomas A. Nagel, Kyotaro Noguchi, Jean‐Marc Ourcival, Robert Parmenter, Ian S. Pearse, Ignacio Manuel Pérez-Ramos, Łukasz Piechnik, John R. Poulsen, Renata Poulton‐Kamakura, Miranda D. Redmond, Chantal D. Reid, Kyle C. Rodman, Francisco Rodríguez‐Sánchez, Javier Sanguinetti, C. Lane Scher, William H. Schlesinger, Harald Schmidt Van Marle, Barbara Seget, Shubhi Sharma, Miles R. Silman, Michael A. Steele, Nathan L. Stephenson, Jacob N. Straub, I‐Fang Sun, Samantha Sutton, Jennifer J. Swenson, Margaret Swift, Peter A. Thomas, María Uriarte, Giorgio Vacchiano, Thomas T. Veblen, Amy V. Whipple, Thomas G. Whitham, Andreas P. Wion, Boyd R. Wright, S. Joseph Wright, Kai Zhu, Jess K. Zimmerman, Roman Zlotin, Magdalena Żywiec, James S. Clark,
Abstract The relationships that control seed production in trees are fundamental to understanding the evolution of forest species and their capacity to recover from increasing losses to drought, fire, and harvest. A synthesis of fecundity data from 714 species worldwide allowed us to examine hypotheses that are central to quantifying reproduction, a foundation for assessing fitness in forest trees. Four major findings emerged. First, seed production is not constrained by a strict trade-off between ...
Tópico(s): Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
2022 - Nature Portfolio | Nature Communications
Rossella Guerrieri, Marta Correia, Irene Martín‐Forés, Raquel Alfaro‐Sánchez, Joan Pino, Arndt Hampe, Fernando Valladares, Josep María Espelta,
Abstract Forest regrowth following farmland (agriculture and pasture) abandonment has been positively associated with a number of processes including the regulation of hydrological cycling, the enhancement of soil functioning and an increase in forest productivity and carbon (C) sequestration. Although these changes in ecosystem functioning post‐farmland abandonment have been observed in multiple locations and studies, the ecophysiological basis underpinning these patterns remains unclear. Here, we ...
Tópico(s): Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
2021 - Wiley | Functional Ecology
Marta Correia, Josep María Espelta, José A. Morillo, Joan Pino, Susana Rodríguez‐Echeverría,
Abstract Forests have expanded across Europe over the last centuries as a consequence of farmland (agricultural and pasture) abandonment. Agricultural practices usually increase soil fertility and reduce the diversity and abundance of ectomycorrhizal (ECM) fungi, essential mutualists of many woody species in temperate and Mediterranean forests. The recovery of this biotic interaction after the cessation of human activities is, thus, crucial for the re‐establishment of functional forest ecosystems. ...
Tópico(s): Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
2021 - Wiley | Journal of Ecology
Marina Palmero‐Iniesta, Joan Pino, Lluís Pesquer, Josep María Espelta,
Tópico(s): Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
2021 - Springer Science+Business Media | European Journal of Forest Research
Marina Palmero‐Iniesta, Josep María Espelta, Javier Gordillo, Joan Pino,
Tópico(s): Forest Management and Policy
2020 - Springer Science+Business Media | Annals of Forest Science
Gustavo Luiz Gouvêa de Almeida, Fabrício Braga, José Kezen Camilo Jorge, Gustavo Freitas Nobre, Marcelo Kalichsztein, Paula de Medeiros Pache de Faria, Bruno Bussade, Guilherme Loures Penna, Vitor Oliveira Alves, Marcella Alecrim Pereira, Paula de Castro Carvalho Gorgulho, Milena Rego dos Santos Espelta de Faria, Luis Eduardo Drumond, Fabrini Batista Soares Carpinete, Ana Carolina Neno, Augusto Neno,
Background: COVID-19 causes severe pulmonary involvement, but the cardiovascular system can also be affected by myocarditis, heart failure and shock. The increase in cardiac biomarkers has been associated with a worse prognosis. Objectives: To evaluate the prognostic value of Troponin-T (TNT) and natriuretic peptide (BNP) in patients hospitalized for Covid-19. Methods: This was a convenience sample of patients hospitalized for COVID-19. Data were collected from medical records to assess the association ...
Tópico(s): COVID-19 and healthcare impacts
2020 - Sociedade Brasileira de Cardiologia (SBC) | Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia
Raquel Alfaro‐Sánchez, Elena Valdés‐Correcher, Josep María Espelta, Arndt Hampe, Didier Bert,
During the past decades, a multitude of oak stands have spontaneously established across the pine-dominated landscapes of the French Landes de Gascogne. Yet their future performance under modern climate change is unknown. We show that coppiced, dominant trees are most prepared to cope with drought episodes, displaying higher basal area increment and lower sensitivity to extreme events. Forest stands dominated by pedunculate oak (Quercus robur L.) have spontaneously established across the pine-dominated ...
Tópico(s): Forest ecology and management
2020 - Springer Science+Business Media | Annals of Forest Science
Michał Bogdziewicz, Jakub Szymkowiak, Rafael Calama, Elizabeth E. Crone, Josep María Espelta, Peter Lesica, Shealyn Marino, Michael A. Steele, Brigitte Tenhumberg, Andrew J. Tyre, Magdalena Żywiec, Dave Kelly,
Abstract Background and Aims In a range of plant species, the distribution of individual mean fecundity is skewed and dominated by a few highly fecund individuals. Larger plants produce greater seed crops, but the exact nature of the relationship between size and reproductive patterns is poorly understood. This is especially clear in plants that reproduce by exhibiting synchronized quasi-periodic variation in fruit production, a process called masting. Methods We investigated covariation of plant ...
Tópico(s): Insect and Pesticide Research
2020 - Oxford University Press | Annals of Botany
Michał Bogdziewicz, Marcos Fernández‐Martínez, Josep María Espelta, Romà Ogaya, Josep Peñuelas,
Summary Recruitment is a primary determinant of the long‐term dynamics of plant populations in changing environments. However, little information is known about the effects of anthropogenic environmental changes on reproductive ecology of trees. We evaluated the impact of experimentally induced 18 yr of drought on reproduction of three contrasting forest trees: Quercus ilex , Phillyrea latifolia and Arbutus unedo . Rainfall reduction did not decrease tree fecundity. Drought, however, affected the allocation ...
Tópico(s): Tree-ring climate responses
2020 - Wiley | New Phytologist
Mario B. Pesendorfer, Michał Bogdziewicz, Jakub Szymkowiak, Zbigniew Borowski, Władysław Kantorowicz, Josep María Espelta, Marcos Fernández‐Martínez,
Abstract Masting—temporally variable seed production with high spatial synchrony—is a pervasive strategy in wind‐pollinated trees that is hypothesized to be vulnerable to climate change due to its correlation with variability in abiotic conditions. Recent work suggests that aging may also have strong effects on seed production patterns of trees, but this potential confounding factor has not been considered in previous times series analysis of climate change effects. Using a 54 year dataset for seven ...
Tópico(s): Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
2020 - Wiley | Global Change Biology
Irene Martín‐Forés, Sandra Magro, Andrés Bravo‐Oviedo, Raquel Alfaro‐Sánchez, Josep María Espelta, Theresa Frei, Elena Valdés‐Correcher, Carmen Rodríguez Fernández‐Blanco, Georg Winkel, Gabriel Gerzabek, Santiago C. González‐Martínez, Arndt Hampe, Fernando Valladares,
Abstract European forests are expanding and becoming denser following the widespread abandonment of farmland and rural areas. Spontaneous forest regrowth provides a cost‐effective opportunity to restore ecosystems, enhance multifunctionality and sustainability and mitigate climate change. Yet, little is known about the goods and services that such forests provide to people. We assessed the changes in nature's contributions to people (NCP) from spontaneous forest regrowth, i.e. forest expansion and ...
Tópico(s): Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
2020 - Wiley | People and Nature
Josep María Espelta, Verónica Cruz‐Alonso, Raquel Alfaro‐Sánchez, Arndt Hampe, Christian Messier, Joan Pino,
Abstract Since the mid‐20th Century, Europe has experienced an unprecedented forest expansion associated with the abandonment of rural landscapes. Secondary forests may provide relevant ecosystem services such as landscape defragmentation, biodiversity conservation, control of hydrological cycling and carbon sequestration. Secondary forests may benefit from the legacies of the former agricultural land use, and exhibit enhanced growth. Moreover, they may differ from long‐established forests in terms ...
Tópico(s): Forest Management and Policy
2020 - Wiley | Journal of Applied Ecology
Michał Bogdziewicz, Jakub Szymkowiak, Raúl Bonal, Andrew Hacket‐Pain, Josep María Espelta, Mario B. Pesendorfer, Łukasz Grewling, Idalia Kasprzyk, Jordina Belmonte, Katarzyna Kluska, Concepción De Linares, Josep Peñuelas, Marcos Fernández‐Martínez,
Tópico(s): Allergic Rhinitis and Sensitization
2020 - Elsevier BV | Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
Marcos Fernández‐Martínez, Ian S. Pearse, Jordi Sardans, Ferran Sayol, Walter D. Koenig, Jalene M. LaMontagne, Michał Bogdziewicz, Alessio Collalti, Andrew Hacket‐Pain, Giorgio Vacchiano, Josep María Espelta, Josep Peñuelas, Ivan A. Janssens,
Mast seeding is one of the most intriguing reproductive traits in nature. Despite its potential drawbacks in terms of fitness, the widespread existence of this phenomenon suggests that it should have evolutionary advantages under certain circumstances. Using a global dataset of seed production time series for 219 plant species from all of the continents, we tested whether masting behaviour appears predominantly in species with low foliar nitrogen and phosphorus concentrations when controlling for ...
Tópico(s): Insect and Pesticide Research
2019 - Nature Portfolio | Nature Plants
Mariano J. Feldman, Mariona Ferrandiz‐Rovira, Josep María Espelta, Alberto Muñóz,
The predation and dispersal of seeds by scatter-hoarding animals is one of the most studied processes in the context of animal–plant interactions. Seed management by these animals has been traditionally approached at the population level: the patterns documented in the field are assumed to be similar for all individuals of the population and the variability within the population is considered to be random noise. However, little is known about to what extent this variability responds to different ...
Tópico(s): Insect and Pesticide Research
2019 - Elsevier BV | Animal Behaviour
Michał Bogdziewicz, Magdalena Żywiec, Josep María Espelta, Marcos Fernández‐Martínez, Rafael Calama, Mateusz Ledwoń, Eliot J. B. McIntire, Elizabeth E. Crone,
Synchronized and variable reproduction by perennial plants, called mast seeding, is a major reproductive strategy of trees. The need to accumulate sufficient resources after depletion following fruiting (resource budget), the efficiency of mass flowering for outcross pollination (pollen coupling), or the external factors preventing reproduction (environmental veto) could all synchronize masting. We used seed production data for four species (Quercus ilex, Quercus humilis, Sorbus aucuparia, and Pinus ...
Tópico(s): Plant and animal studies
2019 - University of Chicago Press | The American Naturalist
Raquel Alfaro‐Sánchez, Alistair S. Jump, Joan Pino, Oihane Díez-Nogales, Josep María Espelta,
Europe is undergoing significant forest expansion due to the abandonment of rural areas driven by economic and demographic changes. Recently established forests provide key ecosystem services such as habitat provision and increased carbon stocks. However, we lack understanding of whether past land use might alter their resilience to climate change compared with long-established forests. Forests established in former agricultural areas may benefit from land use legacies resulting in higher fertility, ...
Tópico(s): Forest ecology and management
2019 - Elsevier BV | Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
Michał Bogdziewicz, Jakub Szymkowiak, Marcos Fernández‐Martínez, Josep Peñuelas, Josep María Espelta,
Many plant species present inter-annual cycles of seed production (mast seeding), with synchronized high seed production across populations in some years. Weather is believed to be centrally involved in triggering masting. The links between meteorological conditions and seeding are well-recognized for some species, but in others consistent correlates have not been found. We used a spatially extensive data set of fruit production to test the hypothesis that the influence of weather on seed production ...
Tópico(s): Insect and Pesticide Research
2019 - Elsevier BV | Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
Michał Bogdziewicz, Josep María Espelta, Alberto Muñóz, José Miguel Aparicio, Raúl Bonal,
Variation in seed availability shapes plant communities, and is strongly affected by seed predation. In some plant species, temporal variation in seed production is especially high and synchronized over large areas, which is called 'mast seeding'. One selective advantage of this phenomenon is predator satiation which posits that masting helps plants escape seed predation through starvation of predators in lean years, and satiation in mast years. However, even though seed predation can be predicted ...
Tópico(s): Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
2018 - Springer Science+Business Media | Oecologia
Luís Seabra, João Pedro Tereso, Ana M. S. Bettencourt, António Dinis,
... las prácticas de almacenaje en el Crastoeiro. La espelta (Triticum spelta) fue el cultivo predominante en el ...
Tópico(s): Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History
2018 - Spanish National Research Council | Trabajos de Prehistoria
Marina Palmero‐Iniesta, Rut Domènech, D. Molina, Josep María Espelta,
Thinning is recommended in overstocked thickets to improve forest structure and reduce high-intensity stand replacing fires. Many studies have outlined the benefits of thinning for forest growth and reproduction but effectiveness in fire intensity needs more attention. Moreover, the effect that slash generated by thinning may have on fire behavior has been seldom explored. Here we simulated fire behavior on unthinned and thinned Aleppo pine (Pinus halepensis) thickets in Catalonia (Northeast Spain) ...
Tópico(s): Forest ecology and management
2017 - Elsevier BV | Forest Ecology and Management
Michał Bogdziewicz, Raúl Bonal, Josep María Espelta, Ewa Marzena Kalemba, Michael A. Steele, Rafał Zwolak,
Species introduced to habitats outside their native range often escape control by their natural enemies. Besides competing with native species, an alien species might also affect the native herbivores by introducing a new source of different quality food. Here, we describe the case of northern red oak (Quercus rubra) invasion in Europe. We collected data on insect (moth Cydia spp. and weevil Curculio spp.) seed predation of northern red oak in its native (USA, North America) and invasive (Poland, Europe) ...
Tópico(s): Biological Control of Invasive Species
2017 - Wiley | Integrative Zoology
Josep María Espelta, Harold Arias‐LeClaire, Marcos Fernández‐Martínez, Enrique Doblas‐Miranda, Alberto Muñóz, Raúl Bonal,
Abstract Escaping seed predation is a classic “economy of scale” hypotheses ( predator satiation hypothesis, Psh ) to explain the selection for the synchronous production of massive and nil seed crops (masting) in plants. The Psh postulates that predator satiation occurs through a combination of (1) “functional satiation,” as not all seeds can be consumed during a massive crop, and (2) “numerical satiation,” as predator populations collapse during poor crop years. Many studies advocate for the Psh , but few ...
Tópico(s): Insect and Pesticide Research
2017 - Wiley | Ecosphere
Jesús García, Esteban Chirino, Josep María Espelta, Douglass F. Jacobs, Paula Martín, Rafael M. Navarro‐Cerrillo, Juan A. Oliet, Alberto Vilagrosa, Pedro Villar‐Salvador, Eustaquio Gil‐Pelegrín,
OakOak forests can naturally regenerate from seedSeed or from sprouts. Both strategies result in the establishment of a tree layer, but they involve a crucial difference: i.e. regenerationRegeneration from seeds affects populationPopulation genetics while sprouting assures the recovery of biomassBiomass after a disturbance but it does not involve sexual reproduction. In addition the two regenerationRegeneration mechanisms differ in their complexity and are affected by different constraints: i.e. ...
Tópico(s): Botany and Plant Ecology Studies
2017 - Springer International Publishing | Tree physiology/Tree physiology (Dordrecht)
Rosina Soler, Josep María Espelta, María Vanessa Lencinas, Pablo Luís Peri, Guillermo Martínez Pastur,
Mast seeding is characteristic of many long-lived tree species and widely proposed as a mechanism to reduce seed predation. However, whether the efficiency of this reproductive response may vary depending on type of seed predator (e.g., invertebrates vs. vertebrates) or depending on local characteristics, remains seldom explored. We evaluated for 8 yrs the patterns of seed production in antarctic beech (Nothofagus antarctica) forests related to management and its influence on insect and bird pre-dispersal ...
Tópico(s): Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
2017 - Elsevier BV | Forest Ecology and Management