Talk:Mast year

Merger[edit]

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The result of this discussion was to merge Mast seeding and Mast year with Mast (botany) Karmos (talk) 08:00, 17 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Support. Possibly Plietesials (which needs considerable clean-up) should be included as well. I think "Mast seeding" is the more appropriate title, as the central topic is the reproductive phenomenon, not the year when it happens. —JerryFriedman (Talk) 05:56, 7 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Support, I think. Well, I'm not sure which of the below three should be merged, but I don't think all three are needed. I'm trying to understand the difference in these three articles. I am not an expert, but based on what I have read in WP and in Encyclopædia Britannica Online, these three concepts seem to be very closely related.

Mast (botany) - the crop of tree fruits such as nuts, cones, or catkins produced in a forest, with ecological implications to the variation of production due to multi-year reproductive processes in some trees and plants.

Mast year - an ecological phenomenon in which a forest reaches a peak in the production of mast due to synchrony in a multi-year reproductive cycle of a population of trees (or plants such as bamboo).

Mast seeding - a botanical reproductive event when fruit is produced after a time period of two or more years, including plants that reproduce only once during their lifetime, then die.

It seems to me, these three terms describe one phenomenon, just from different perspectives.--Brambleshire (talk) 14:58, 26 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Support — clearly mast year, at least, is (or can be) adequately covered in mast seeding; arguably all can fit into Mast (botany). —Tamfang (talk) 20:56, 26 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- Support I agree with Tamfang idea of putting them all under Mast (botany).Sepilok2007 (talk) 12:14, 8 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

It is done. Both were merged with Mast (botany). Karmos (talk) 08:00, 17 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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