Modelling silvicultural alternatives for conifer regeneration in boreal mixedwood stands (aspen/white spruce/balsam fir)... These alternative prescriptions for full or partial conifer stocking are (1) reliance on advance regeneration with or without augmentation by fill-planting; (2) understory scarification during a mast year; (3) direct seeding either aerially or with a scarifier-seeder; and (4) underplanting....
Data from: fire after a mast year triggers mass recruitment of slender mulga (acacia aptaneura), a desert shrub with heat-stimulated germination... METHODS: We conducted a longitudinal seedbank study and a mensurative field experiment in central Australia to examine whether fire and the variation in seedfall density across sites in a mast year interact to influence recruitment of slender mulga (Acacia aptaneura), an iteroparous masting shrub with heat-stimulated germination....
The effects of a natural increase in food supply on a wild population of house mice... Mice bred during winter and increased dramatically in density only during a beech mast year....
Non-serotinous woody plants behave as aerial seed bank species when a late-summer wildfire coincides with a mast year... We propose an alternative strategy in masting tree species with woody cones or cone-like structures: that the large clusters of woody tissue in a mast year will sufficiently impede heat transfer that a small fraction of seeds can survive the flaming front passage; in a mast year, this small fraction would be a very large...
