fecundity

Using nearly 2.9 million tree-years from 292 species, this paper shows that slope, aspect, and drainage shape tree fecundity and interact with climate, suggesting that topographically diverse landscapes can offer local refuges for reproduction under climate change.

Across 292 tree species in North America and Europe, this paper shows that changes in seed production are driven by moisture deficits and late freeze rather than rising annual temperature, so tree fecundity is not yet shifting poleward despite rapid warming.

This paper reveals the impact of late freeze impacts on tree fecundity across North America and Europe. This is also the first time we are able to make continental-scale predictions through the MASTIF network

Tong will talk about phenology impacts on tree fecundity

The fundamental trade-off between current and future reproduction has long been considered to result in a tendency for species that can …

This paper reveals the effects of remotely sensed nutrient supply on forest reproduction across the United States. Consistent with our previous findings, we found increasing phosphorous is assocaited with low seed production at both species and landscape level.

The timing of spring green-up affects tree reproduction in the temperate and boreal forests.

This paper quantifies three components of masting (volatility, periodicity, and synchronicity) from 12 million tree-years worldwide and shows that species dependent on mutualist dispersers avoid masting, an effect that explains more variation than climate, soil fertility, or nutrient demand.

This paper compared the volatility metrics introduced by Qiu et al., (2023) Nature Plants and compared it with traditional metrics that measures masting

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