Synchrony and asynchrony: observations and hypotheses for the flowering wave in a long-lived semelparous bamboo

• Published in: Journal of biogeography Vol. 31; no. 5; pp. 773 - 786
• Main Author: Franklin, Donald C.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing 01.05.2004; Blackwell
• Subjects: allochrony; Animal and plant ecology; Animal, plant and microbial ecology; Animals; bamboo flowering wave; Bamboos; Bambusa arnhemica; Biogeography; Biological and medical sciences; biological clock; Chronobiology; Cicadas; Demecology; Ecological genetics; Evolution; Evolutionary genetics; Flowering; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; General aspects; gregarious semelparity; incipient speciation; Mammalia; mast fruiting; Plants; reproductive isolation; Seedlings; stabilizing selection; Synecology; Treelines, Temperature, Time and Timing; Vertebrata; Biogeography; Flowering; Geographic distribution; Sea surface wave

Aim (1) To describe the spatio-temporal patterns of mass-flowering and die-off in a long-lived, semelparous, clumping bamboo, Bambusa arnhemica, at landscape and local scales. (2) To discuss causal processes in the flowering patterns of semelparous bamboos. Location The entire range of B. arnhemica,...