Department of Systematic Zoology, Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Ulica Uniwersytetu Poznańskiego 6, Poznań, 61-614, Poland.
INRAE, LESSEM, University Grenoble Alpes, 2 rue de la Papeterie, BP 76, Saint-Martin-d'Hères, 38400, France.
New Phytol. 2022 Apr;234(1):14-20. doi: 10.1111/nph.17682. Epub 2021 Sep 3.
Forest ecology traditionally focuses on plant growth and survival, leaving seed production as a major demographic process lacking a framework for how it will be affected by global change. Understanding plant reproductive responses to changing climate is complicated by masting, the annually variable seed production synchronized within populations. Predicting trends in masting is crucial, because masting impacts seed predation and pollination enough to override simple trends in mean seed production. Proximate mechanisms of seed production patterns in perennial plants are gathered to identify processes through which masting may be affected by a changing environment. Predicting trends in masting will require understanding the mechanisms that cause predictable seed failure after high-seed years, and the stochastic mechanisms that synchronize individuals in high-seed years.
森林生态学传统上侧重于植物的生长和存活，而将种子生产作为一个主要的人口统计过程，缺乏一个框架来了解它将如何受到全球变化的影响。理解植物繁殖对气候变化的反应很复杂，因为结实是种群内每年变化的种子生产同步现象。预测结实的趋势至关重要，因为结实对种子捕食和传粉的影响足以抵消平均种子产量的简单趋势。收集多年生植物种子生产模式的近似机制，以确定结实可能受到环境变化影响的过程。预测结实的趋势需要了解导致高种子年后可预测种子失败的机制，以及使个体在高种子年同步的随机机制。
