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CANADIAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY-REVUE CANADIENNE DE BOTANIQUE
卷 83, 期 11, 页码 1402-1409出版社
CANADIAN SCIENCE PUBLISHING
DOI: 10.1139/b05-120
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Fagus crenata; mast seeding; proximate factor; resource dynamics; seed production; temperature
To examine the proximate factors causing mast seeding in Fagus crenata Blume in Hokkaido, northern Japan, we analyzed a 13-year time series of seed production in relation to both previous reproduction and weather conditions. In an autocorrelation analysis we observed a significant negative correlation in 1-year time lags for the log-transformed total seed crop. This indicates that internal resource dynamics are important for mast seeding. A strong negative correlation was observed between the total seed crop and minimum temperature from late April to mid-May in the year preceding flowering.. The critical minimum temperature from late April to mid-May for total seed crop at all five sites was about 1.0 degrees C higher than the 22-year (1979-2000) mean of the minimum temperatures, above which very few seeds were produced. These results show that a weather cue triggers the cessation of reproduction in F. crenata. Regression models that included reproduction in the previous year and minimum temperature explained 57.8%-83.1% of the total seed crop at the five study sites. Therefore, resource dynamics and weather cues are clearly involved in mast seeding in F. crenata.
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