<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Espelta, Josep Maria</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Cortés, Pilar</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Molowny-Horas, Roberto</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Sánchez-Humanes, Belén</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Retana, Javier</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Masting mediated by summer drought reduces acorn predation in mediterranean oak forests</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">ECOLOGY</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Curculio spp.</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">fruit abortion</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">fruiting synchrony</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Mediterranean mixed-oak forests</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">oaks</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">predator satiation</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Quercus humilis</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Quercus ilex</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">resource matching</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2008</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2008///</style></date></pub-dates></dates><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">89</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">805 - 817</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Temporally variable production of seed crops by perennial plants (masting) has been hypothesized to be a valuable mechanism in the reduction of seed predation by satiating and starving seed consumers. To achieve these benefits, coexisting species subjected to the same predator would benefit from a similar pattern of seeding fluctuation over time that could lead to a reduction in predation at the within-species level. We tested for the existence of an environmental factor enforcing synchrony in acorn production in two sympatric Mediterranean oaks ( Quercus ilex and Q. humilis) and the consequences on within-species and between species acorn predation, by monitoring 15 mixed forests (450 trees) over seven years. Acorn production in Q. ilex and Q. humilis was highly variable among years, with high population variability (CVp) values. The two species exhibited a very different pattern across years in their initial acorn crop size ( sum of aborted, depredated, and sound acorns). Nevertheless, interannual differences in summer water stress modified the likelihood of abortion during acorn ripening and enforced within-and, particularly, between-species synchrony and population variability in acorn production. The increase in CVp from initial to mature acorn crop ( after summer) accounted for 33% in Q. ilex, 59% in Q. humilis, and 60% in the two species together. Mean yearly acorn pre-dispersal predation by invertebrates was considerably higher in Q. humilis than in Q. ilex. Satiation and starvation of predators was recorded for the two oaks, and this effect was increased by the year-to-year variability in the size of the acorn crop of the two species combined. Moreover, at a longer time scale ( over seven years), we observed a significant reduction in the mean proportion of acorns depredated for each oak and the variability in both species' acorn production combined. Therefore, our results demonstrate that similar patterns of seeding fluctuation over time in coexisting species mediated by an environmental cue ( summer drought) may contribute to the reduction of the impact of seed predation at a within-species level. Future research should be aimed at addressing whether this process could be a factor assisting in the coexistence of Q. ilex and Q. humilis.</style></abstract><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">3</style></issue><notes><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">The following values have no corresponding Zotero field:&lt;br/&gt;pub-location: 1990 M STREET NW, STE 700, WASHINGTON, DC 20036 USA&lt;br/&gt;publisher: ECOLOGICAL SOC AMER</style></notes></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Csiky, O.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Seufert, G.</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Terpenoid emissions of Mediterranean oaks and their relation to taxonomy</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">atmospheric chemistry</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">BEMA (Biogenic Emissions in the Mediterranean Area</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Biogenic emission</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">chemo-taxonomy</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">isoprene</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Mediterranean Region</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Monoterpenes</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">oak taxonomy</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">oaks</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Quercus</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">terpenoid emissions</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">trace-gas exchange</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">volatile organic compounds (VOCs)</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1999</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1999///</style></date></pub-dates></dates><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">9</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1138 - 1146</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">This paper presents results of a laboratory screening study of biogenic emissions from Mediterranean oak species. The experiment aimed at improving our understanding of oak contributions to overall emissions of volatile organic compounds and to the atmospheric chemistry in the Mediterranean area. We measured type and amount of terpenoid emissions (isoprene, mono- and sesquiterpenes) under standard conditions of light and temperature from 14 different Quercus species of Mediterranean and American origin. Tree saplings were exposed in a controlled environment chamber, and leaf-level trace-gas exchange was analyzed with a minicuvette system and gas chromatography, to study the relation between the emission types and emission spectra found and the taxonomy of Quercus. The holarctic group Lepidobalanus and the North American groups Erythrobalanus and Protobalanus were found to be strong isoprene emitters. The Eurasian oak group Sclerophyllodrys emits monoterpenes; Cerris include mostly non-emitters, but also an isoprene and a monoterpene emitter has been found in this group. Results are discussed with respect to their implications for presently used emission scenarios.</style></abstract><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">4</style></issue><notes><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">The following values have no corresponding Zotero field:&lt;br/&gt;pub-location: 1707 H ST NW, STE 400, WASHINGTON, DC 20006-3915 USA&lt;br/&gt;publisher: ECOLOGICAL SOC AMER</style></notes></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Roupsard, O.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Gross, P.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Dreyer, E.</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Limitation of photosynthetic activity by CO2 availability in the chloroplasts of oak leaves from different species and during drought</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ann. For. Sci.</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">chlorophyll fluorescence</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">chloroplasts</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">CO2 diffusion</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Drought</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">mesophyll conductance</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">oaks</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Stomatal conductance</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1996</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1996///</style></date></pub-dates></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/forest:19960207</style></url></web-urls></urls><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">53</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">243 - 254</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">It has recently been suggested that the low photosynthesis rates in tree species as compared to highly productive crops is at least partly due to resistances opposing the CO 2 fluxes in the mesophyll of tree leaves. To validate this assertion, values of CO2 mole fractions in the chloroplasts of leaves from Quercus petraea, Q robur, Q ilex and Populus sp were estimated on the basis of the analysis of the partitioning of light driven electron flow between fractions used for the carboxylation or the oxygenation of RuBP by Rubisco. The procedure used included: i) a measure of total light driven electron flows derived from the chlorophyll a fluorescence ratio ΔF/Fm', which is proportional to the photochemical efficiency of PS II, multiplied by incident irradiance and a calibration coefficient; ii) an estimation of the electron flux devoted to carboxylation obtained from net CO2 assimilation and respiration rate measurement, and using the known electron requirements (four electrons for CO2 or O2 fixation); iii) the derivation of the CO2 mole fraction in the chloroplasts from the specificity factor of Rubisco, and the ratio of carboxylation/oxygenation of RuBP. Results showed that in the absence of drought stress, the mole fraction of CO2 in the chloroplasts (35-45% of the atmospheric one) was much lower than the calculated substomatal one (60-70% of the atmospheric) in all species. Moreover, lowest values were recorded in the species with lowest assimilation rates, suggesting that the differences in the net CO 2 assimilation rate between species are linked to the CO2 availability in the chloroplasts. Finally, the CO2 availability decreased with increasing drought in the soil, stressing the importance of reduced influx of CO2 as an important factor for drought-induced declines of photosynthesis. These results are discussed with respect to the occurrence of significant resistances in the leaf mesophyll, in addition to the stomatal resistances.</style></abstract><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2-3</style></issue></record></records></xml>