Synchronous bamboo die-off acts as its own periodic disturbance releasing tree regeneration

Evidence

Some Chusquea species also significantly influence patterns of forest stand development because of their habit of flowering, seeding, and dying synchronously at supra-annual intervals (Hosseus, 1915; Gunkel, 1948). Following a massive die-off of the bamboo, the advance regeneration of the most shade-tolerant tree species as well as the new establishment of less shade-tolerant tree species eventually take over the site. — S. T. A. Pickett and P. S. White, eds., The Ecology of Natural Disturbance and…, 318

Categorization

• SEED: The mast-flowering-and-death of bamboo as a biological disturbance regime nested within a tree disturbance regime — a good case to pair with disturbance hierarchies in a landscape-writing piece.
• XREF: connects to: Post-fire bamboo thickets can block Nothofagus regeneration and slow eventual succession — S. T. A. Pickett and P. S. White, eds., The Ecology of Natural Disturbance and…, 318; The bamboo Chusquea culeou preempts canopy gaps and blocks Nothofagus regeneration. — S. T. A. Pickett and P. S. White, eds., The Ecology of Natural Disturbance and…, 353; The same disturbance-diversity dynamics governing forest trees also structure moss communities on logs — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural…, 371

Broader Connections

• The bamboo Chusquea culeou preempts canopy gaps and blocks Nothofagus regeneration. #complicates (0.82) — S. T. A. Pickett and P. S. White, eds., The Ecology of Natural Disturbance and…, 353
• Post-fire bamboo thickets can block Nothofagus regeneration and slow eventual succession #expands (0.80) — S. T. A. Pickett and P. S. White, eds., The Ecology of Natural Disturbance and…, 318
• The same disturbance-diversity dynamics governing forest trees also structure moss communities on logs #expands (0.72) — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Gathering Moss, 371