Effects of Carbon Dynamics and Climate Variability on Mast Seeding and Maple Syrup Production
- HF-ID: HF2013-10
- Category: Research Files
- Creator: Rapp, J., Crone, E.
- Associated Person: Richardson, A.
- Date: December 2014 to January 2016
- Location: Harvard Forest
- Media: Paper
- Contents:
- Grant Proposal - Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI): NIFA Fellowship Grant Program. 1 File Folder. 8.5 inches x 11 inches.
- Keywords: seeds, climate, carbon, conservation
- Abstract:
- Two hypotheses about the relationship between sap and seed production in sugar maples, and two about the implications of this relationship for management.
- 1. Seeds and sap use NSC from the same carbon pool within trees.
- 2. If mast seeding is a major sink of stored NSC, I predict negative relationships between seed production and NSC content of twigs and buds; twig growth; leaf production; photosynthetic rate; sap sugar content.
- 3. Using the data collected in (1), I will conduct a modeling study to compare carbon deletion due to mast seeding to that from tapping maple trees at both low and high intensity.
- 4. At a broad geographic scale, I will test the relative importance of weather conditions and past seed production for maple syrup yields....
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