Final version now available in #OpenAccess
"Fire favors sexual precocity in a Mediterranean pine" https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/oik.09373 #Oikos_journal
#Pinushalepensis, #serotiny #pinus #precocity #fireecology #OA @wildfirescience
Parents proudly tout
just-pretend precocity
of average kids.
#Haiku #Senryu #Poetry #TinyPoems #SmallPoems #Poets #Prompts #Prompt #WritingPrompt #Poem #AmWriting #micropoetry #Parents #Parent #Child #Children
These results (higher #precocity in higher #fire activity areas; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/oik.09373) have a direct application in #restoration: selecting #seeds from populations with high fire activity would increase the #resilience capacity of the restored woodland to face the increasing fire frequency. This may be more relevant than collecting seeds in typical high quality seed sites
See also https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/abdc5a
#restoration #ecology #fireecology
12 yr-old pine with cones starting at 9 yr
#Fire selects sexual #precocity in pines! https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/oik.09373
Populations of #Pinus halepensis (a #serotinous #pines), subjected to higher frequency of crown fires (short fire interval) produce cones at younger ages than those pops that rarely #burnt
Being precocious in fireprone environments is adaptive because it increases the probability of having a significant seed bank for regeneration when the next fire arrives
#ecology #fireecology #plantecology #evolution #wildfires #mediterranean
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Madeleine Begun Kane