Cones are harvested from Mediterranean Stone pine Pinus pinea L. for their edible kernels,
pine nuts, which have been used as a food item in the region since Palaeolithic times. At …

Umbrella pine (Pinus pinea L.) cones take three years to develop. With the increasing
frequency of extreme droughts, water available for trees has decreased—climate change is …

Aim of the study: To present a new spatiotemporal model for Pinus pinea L. annual cone
production with validity for Spanish Northen Plateau and Central Range regions. The new …

Pinus pinea L. is a Mediterranean species of economic importance due to its edible seeds,
the pine nuts that have high market value. We analyzed fruit productivity by recording cone …

Seed production of trees is key to natural regeneration of forests and to successful
conservation management. Despite its importance no spatially explicit analyses of seed …

The relationships between climate variability and canopy dynamics (monthly litter
production), chemical composition of the litter, secondary growth and female-cone …

Scots pine forests subjected to continental Mediterranean climates undergo cold winter
temperatures and drought stress. Recent climatic trends towards warmer and drier …

Data from a 10 year series of cone production taken from 755 trees were used to model
individual cone production in stone pine (Pinus pinea L.) stands in the Northern Inland …

Tree growth is regulated by a combination of exogenous and endogenous factors. Such
factors also interact with each other, complicating the understanding of causal links. IN …

Sensitivity to climate change and anthropogenic disturbance is a typical feature of
Mediterranean forests, which grow under dynamic and manipulated environmental …