Tree Fecundity and forest regeneration Last updated on Jun 1, 2023 Go to Project Site Tree Fecundity Tong Qiu Assistant Professor, PI I study impacts of global change on forest ecosystem functions. Publications Masting is uncommon in trees that depend on mutualist dispersers in the context of global climate and fertility gradients This paper aims to understand the size-numbers trade-off in species seed production and how species traits have mediate the trade-off. The paper also reveals the effects of soil fertility on both individual and community fecundity at a global scale. Tong Qiu, Benoit Courbaud, Valentin Journe, Georges Kunstler, other 95 contributors, James S. Clark Cite Project DOI pdf How to measure mast seeding? This paper compared the volatility metrics introduced by Qiu et al., (2023) Nature Plants and compared it with traditional metrics that measures masting M. Bogdziewicz, Rafael Calama, Benoit Courbaud, Josep M. Espelta, Andrew Hacket-Pain, Valentin Journe, Georges Kunstler, Michael Steele, Tong Qiu, Magdalena Zywiec, James S. Clark Cite Project DOI pdf Linking seed size and number to trait syndromes in trees This paper confirmed the seed number-size trade-off across the trait spectrum based on the Species Seed Production (SSP) developed in Qiu et al. (2022), Nature Communications M. Bogdziewicz, Benoit Courbaud, Valentin Journe, Georges Kunstler, Tong Qiu, other 98 contributors, James S. Clark Cite Project DOI pdf Limits to reproduction and seed size-number trade-offs that shape forest dominance and future recovery This paper aims to understand the size-numbers trade-off in species seed production and how species traits have mediate the trade-off. The paper also reveals the effects of soil fertility on both individual and community fecundity at a global scale. Tong Qiu, Benoit Courbaud, Valentin Journe, Georges Kunstler, other 95 contributors, James S. Clark Cite Project DOI pdf Globally, tree fecundity exceeds productivity gradients The orders of magnitude of differences in seed production from dry tundra to tropical rainforest beyond which can be explained by the Net Primary Production (NPP). Valentin Journe, Benoit Courbaud, Georges Kunstler, Tong Qiu, other 95 contributors, James S. Clark Cite Project DOI pdf Is there tree senescence? The fecundity evidence A global analysis finds that fecundity decline in large trees is pervasive, consistent with physiological decline, thus providing new evidence for tree senescence. For the 20% of species not showing fecundity declines, this lack of evidence was linked not to specific species groups, but rather to lack of large trees in the data. Tong Qiu, Benoit Courbaud, Valentin Journe, Georges Kunstler, other 61 contributors, James S. Clark Cite Project DOI pdf Niche shifts from trees to fecundity to recruitment that determine species response to climate change This paper quantified the community reorganizations from adults to fecundity to seedling recruitment. Tong Qiu, Shubhi Sharma, Christopher Woodall, James S. Clark Cite Project DOI pdf
