What defines mast seeding? Spatio-temporal patterns of cone production by whitebark pine

Journal of Ecology

Volumn 99, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 438-444

  Crone, Elizabeth E ^a   McIntire, Eliot J B ^b   Brodie, Jedediah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bimodal reproduction; Episodic recruitment; Mast seeding; Nucifraga columbiana; Pinus albicaulis; Reproductive ecology; Seed dispersal; Seed predation; Synchrony

Indexed keywords

BIMODAL ASSOCIATION; EPISODIC EVENT; EVERGREEN TREE; POLLINATION; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SEED DISPERSAL; SEED PREDATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SYNCHRONY;

NUCIFRAGA COLUMBIANA; PINUS ALBICAULIS;

EID: 79951570124     PISSN: 00220477     EISSN: 13652745     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2745.2010.01790.x     Document Type: Article

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