🐝🌺Dynamic pollinator networks maintain pollination efficiency during mast flowering in an insect-pollinated tree
📷 © Magdalena Żywiec
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#Bumblebee #MastSeeding #PollinationEfficiency #PollinatorNetworks #ReproductiveEfficiency #Sorbusaucuparia
Jalene LaMontagne, colleagues win 2025 Robert P. McIntosh Award from the Vegetation Section of the Ecological Society of America for research on community synchrony in seed production. #ESA #LTER #MastSeeding blogs.umsl.edu/news/2025/08...
I'm very proud to receive the 2025 Robert P. McIntosh Award from the @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social Vegetation Section at #ESA2025 with an amazing group of colleagues, for our paper on Community #MastSeeding. 🥳
Paper: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Award info: esa.org/vegetation/a...
Three people in front of the Ives Lake Field Station, with a lake in the background.
We finished another successful year of #MastSeeding 🌲 #Fieldwork, visiting 22 sites, at the #IvesLakeFieldStation #HMWF. With @chernickykiley.bsky.social and @riley-adams.bsky.social.
A new white 4Runner, with 2 people and the woods.
Good morning! Off for our first day of fieldwork in the northwoods of WI. (With @chernickykiley.bsky.social & @riley-adams.bsky.social) #MastSeeding 🌲 #LongTermResearch #Kemp
Table set up with conifer reproduction information.
Sticker that says "Cone Counters", "Count new cones!" and "www.lamontagnelab.com" with a conifer tree and cones on it.
A poster board that says "Cone Counters" and has a variety of cones on it.
Two people in front of a table display.
We have a table at the American Conifer Society annual meeting! Talking to folks about conifer reproduction #MastSeeding and our #ConeCounters #CommunityScience project. 🌲 www.lamontagnelab.com
Three people standing by a lake with forests on the edges. There is a building in the background, across the lake.
We're back! The #LaMontagneLab is in the Huron Mountains for year 14 of our long-term study on trees! 🌲 #MastSeeding #HMWF #IvesLakeFieldStation @chernickykiley.bsky.social @riley-adams.bsky.social
Two graphs, top one shows variation in reproduction across years for species. The bottom shows high synchrony in reproduction across species.
#MastSeeding is a pattern of synchronous & highly variable reproduction over time in perennial plants - at a population level. A dominant hypothesis for it is seed-predator satiation. Lots of woody plants have similar environmental cues. There could be benefits & costs to community-level synchrony.
5 people at a table, smiling at the camera.
Let the informal #BES2024 meet-ups begin! Here with some #MastSeeding folks, @andrewhacket-pain.bsky.social @micbog.bsky.social, also Jakub Szymkowiak & Eléonore Perret. 🌲 🌳
Masting, or mast seeding, is a strategy where oak trees (and other types of trees that produce nuts or seeds) produce a large number of acorns in some years and very few in others. #science #sciencefacts #acorns #masting #mastseeding
Masting, or mast seeding, is a strategy where oak trees (and other types of trees that produce nuts or seeds) produce a large number of acorns in some years and very few in others.
#science #sciencefacts #acorns #masting #mastseeding
House and lake and hills. Ives Lake Field Station.
Two people working in the forest.
Two people on a rocky mountain.
Two people in the forest, wearing orange sweaters.
Another year of our #LongTerm #MastSeeding study, based at the #IvesLakeFieldStation! With @chernickykiley.bsky.social and @jesse1.bsky.social. #HMWF
Fish & Chip Friday! And working on fun science with @anaspene.bsky.social in York, UK. #MastSeeding 🌲 🌳
