Inter-annual and decadal changes in teleconnections drive continental-scale synchronization of tree reproduction.
Nat Commun
; 8(1): 2205, 2017 12 20.
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ABSTRACT
Climate teleconnections drive highly variable and synchronous seed production (masting) over large scales. Disentangling the effect of high-frequency (inter-annual variation) from low-frequency (decadal trends) components of climate oscillations will improve our understanding of masting as an ecosystem process. Using century-long observations on masting (the MASTREE database) and data on the Northern Atlantic Oscillation (NAO), we show that in the last 60 years both high-frequency summer and spring NAO, and low-frequency winter NAO components are highly correlated to continent-wide masting in European beech and Norway spruce. Relationships are weaker (non-stationary) in the early twentieth century. This finding improves our understanding on how climate variation affects large-scale synchronization of tree masting. Moreover, it supports the connection between proximate and ultimate causes of masting indeed, large-scale features of atmospheric circulation coherently drive cues and resources for masting, as well as its evolutionary drivers, such as pollination efficiency, abundance of seed dispersers, and natural disturbance regimes.
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Estações do Ano
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Árvores
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Mudança Climática
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Clima
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Dispersão de Sementes
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En
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Nat Commun
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BIOLOGIA
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CIENCIA
Ano de publicação:
2017
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Article
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Itália