Masting, the highly variable and synchronous production of seeds across a population of
perennial plants, is an ecologically important, but still poorly understood, phenomenon …

The relationships that control seed production in trees are fundamental to understanding the
evolution of forest species and their capacity to recover from increasing losses to drought …

Prescribed fires are increasingly implemented throughout eastern deciduous forests to
accomplish various management objectives, including maintenance of oak-dominated …

Increasing temperatures, precipitation extremes, and other anthropogenic influences
(pollutant deposition, increasing carbon dioxide) will influence future forest composition and …

Forest ecosystems in most industrialized and agricultural regions receive elevated rates of
atmospheric nitrogen (N) deposition from air pollution. To evaluate the effects of excess N …

We review the mechanisms of deleterious nitrogen (N) deposition impacts on temperate
forests, with a particular focus on trees and lichens. Elevated anthropogenic N deposition to …

Relatively little is known about the effects of anthropogenic environmental changes on
reproductive ecology of trees. Yet, recruitment is a primary determinant of the long‐term …

In tropical forest communities, seedling recruitment can be limited by the number of fruit
produced by adults. Fruit production tends to be highly unequal among trees of the same …

Next to global warming, excessive deposition of nitrogen has an alarming environmental
impact on forest ecology, especially within dioecious species. Resource availability affects …

Mast seeding is the episodic, massive production of plant seeds synchronized over large
areas. The resulting superabundance of seeds represents a resource pulse that can …