This study surveyed the literature to get a sense of whether #Fabaceae are gradually substituting #Pinaceae in #TemperateForests.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0921818117305234
#biodiversity #trees #ecosystems #forests #forest #temperateforests #pinaceae #Fabaceae
Intraspecific variability of #serotiny in #Pinus banksiana
Rear-edge populations (with low #fire frequency) are less serotinous & more variably than range-core #fireprone pops where serotiny is more uniformly high, by Pelletier et al
https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2745.14041 #JEcol
That is, results for Pinus banksiana (boreal) are quite similar to those for P. halepensis & P. pinaster (mediterranean species).
-https://bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.3732/ajb.1300182
-https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1360138515000539
#pinaceae #trees #fireecology #jecol #fireprone #fire #pinus #serotiny
Estimating the age of #mediterranean #pines & their #cones is tricky, as they often produce more than 1 whorl per year!
Pic: #Pinus halepensis. From the bottom upwards: 🔵arrows: 1st whorl of a growing season;🔴&🟢arrows: 2nd & 3rd whorl of the same year. Note the #serotinous #cones in the left pic.
https://jgpausas.blogs.uv.es/2022/12/24/fire-selects-precocity-in-pines/
Article: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/oik.09373
#PlantEcology #PlantScience #fireecology #trees #pinaceae #ecology @wildfirescience
#ecology #pinaceae #trees #fireecology #plantscience #PlantEcology #serotinous #pinus #cones #Pines #mediterranean
I can only guess at what some of these words mean (sorry, botanists), but this seems to be a cool example of tree bet-hedging in fire-prone regions.
#boreal #pinaceae #ecoevo #bethedging
I can only guess at what some of these words mean (sorry, botanists), but this seems to be a cool example of tree bet-hedging in fire-prone regions.
#boreal #pinaceae #ecoevo #bethedging