Decadal changes in masting behaviour of oak trees with rising temperatur
Decadal changes in masting behaviour of oak trees with rising temperatur
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橡树的肥大行为随温度升高的十年变化
DOI:
10.1111/1365-2745.13337
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发表时间:
2020
影响因子:
5.5
通讯作者:
Takashi Saitoh
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作者:
Mitsue Shibata;Takashi Masaki;Tsutomu Yagihashi;Takuya Shimada;Takashi Saitoh
Decadal changes in masting behaviour—directional changes in seed production with fluctuations on a decadal time‐scale—are attracting widespread attention in the context of global climate change. However, our mechanistic understanding of the effects of climate on seed production on a decadal scale is unsatisfactory, partly because of the insufficient statistical analyses of long‐term data on masting.We detected decadal changes in masting behaviour in the Japanese oakQuercus crispulabased on long‐term data (38 years: 1980–2017) from the Kitakami Mountains of Japan. The moving average of seed production in a 20‐year sliding window increased, whereas the coefficient of variation decreased. A wavelet power spectrum, as well as a second‐order log‐linear autoregressive (AR) model showed that masting intervals shortened from 3‐ or 4‐year cycle to a 2‐year cycle.The moving average of seed production increased linearly as the moving average of temperature increased. Temporal variations of the two AR model coefficients as a function of temperature were well described by concave curves.Synthesis. By conducting the statistical analyses of a long‐term seed production dataset, we obtained significant evidence of decadal changes in the masting behaviour of the Japanese oak and showed that the shortening of the masting interval was associated with rising temperature. A resource allocation shift and an environmental veto were discussed as possible mechanisms underlying the decadal change.