Phenological patterns and reproductive success of Ceiba pentandra (Bombacaceae) in tropical dry and wet forests of Costa Rica

We studied the phenological patterns and the reproductive success of 103 Ceiba pentandra trees, located in the tropical dry and wet forests of the Pacific coast of Costa Rica. To determine the phenological patterns of this species we recorded leaf fall, flower and fruit production of marked trees ev...

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Autores principales:	ROJAS-SANDOVAL,JULISSA, LOBO,JORGE A, QUESADA,MAURICIO
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	Sociedad de Biología de Chile 2008
Materias:	Ceiba pentandra Costa Rica reproductive success supra-annual phenology
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spelling	oai:scielo:S0716-078X20080004000012009-06-08Phenological patterns and reproductive success of Ceiba pentandra (Bombacaceae) in tropical dry and wet forests of Costa RicaROJAS-SANDOVAL,JULISSALOBO,JORGE AQUESADA,MAURICIO Ceiba pentandra Costa Rica reproductive success supra-annual phenology We studied the phenological patterns and the reproductive success of 103 Ceiba pentandra trees, located in the tropical dry and wet forests of the Pacific coast of Costa Rica. To determine the phenological patterns of this species we recorded leaf fall, flower and fruit production of marked trees every two-weeks from December through March over three years (2001, 2002 and 2003). We also recorded the flowering and fruiting frequencies for two more years (2000 and 2004). Our data suggest that phenological patterns of C. pentandra trees behave as irregular cycles rather than cycles fixed at supra-annual intervals, and the forest type in which the trees are located does not have a decisive effect on either the probability or the frequency of the reproductive cycles. The absence of a pattern of negative autocorrelations in qualitative reproductive success (e.g., no reproduction, only flowers and fruits) among successive years suggests that the flowering or fruiting cycles of this species do not correspond to a simple model of resource limitation. Our results show that there is no relationship between the reproductive success and the periodicity of the reproductive cycles in this species.info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessSociedad de Biología de ChileRevista chilena de historia natural v.81 n.4 20082008-12-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0716-078X2008000400001en10.4067/S0716-078X2008000400001
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topic	Ceiba pentandra Costa Rica reproductive success supra-annual phenology
spellingShingle	Ceiba pentandra Costa Rica reproductive success supra-annual phenology ROJAS-SANDOVAL,JULISSA LOBO,JORGE A QUESADA,MAURICIO Phenological patterns and reproductive success of Ceiba pentandra (Bombacaceae) in tropical dry and wet forests of Costa Rica
description	We studied the phenological patterns and the reproductive success of 103 Ceiba pentandra trees, located in the tropical dry and wet forests of the Pacific coast of Costa Rica. To determine the phenological patterns of this species we recorded leaf fall, flower and fruit production of marked trees every two-weeks from December through March over three years (2001, 2002 and 2003). We also recorded the flowering and fruiting frequencies for two more years (2000 and 2004). Our data suggest that phenological patterns of C. pentandra trees behave as irregular cycles rather than cycles fixed at supra-annual intervals, and the forest type in which the trees are located does not have a decisive effect on either the probability or the frequency of the reproductive cycles. The absence of a pattern of negative autocorrelations in qualitative reproductive success (e.g., no reproduction, only flowers and fruits) among successive years suggests that the flowering or fruiting cycles of this species do not correspond to a simple model of resource limitation. Our results show that there is no relationship between the reproductive success and the periodicity of the reproductive cycles in this species.
author	ROJAS-SANDOVAL,JULISSA LOBO,JORGE A QUESADA,MAURICIO
author_facet	ROJAS-SANDOVAL,JULISSA LOBO,JORGE A QUESADA,MAURICIO
author_sort	ROJAS-SANDOVAL,JULISSA
title	Phenological patterns and reproductive success of Ceiba pentandra (Bombacaceae) in tropical dry and wet forests of Costa Rica
title_short	Phenological patterns and reproductive success of Ceiba pentandra (Bombacaceae) in tropical dry and wet forests of Costa Rica
title_full	Phenological patterns and reproductive success of Ceiba pentandra (Bombacaceae) in tropical dry and wet forests of Costa Rica
title_fullStr	Phenological patterns and reproductive success of Ceiba pentandra (Bombacaceae) in tropical dry and wet forests of Costa Rica
title_full_unstemmed	Phenological patterns and reproductive success of Ceiba pentandra (Bombacaceae) in tropical dry and wet forests of Costa Rica
title_sort	phenological patterns and reproductive success of ceiba pentandra (bombacaceae) in tropical dry and wet forests of costa rica
publisher	Sociedad de Biología de Chile
publishDate	2008
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Phenological patterns and reproductive success of Ceiba pentandra (Bombacaceae) in tropical dry and wet forests of Costa Rica

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