Table 1 Spearman’s rank correlations between weather conditions in current and previous years (minimum monthly ground temperature and sum of monthly precipitation) and fruit production and frequency of Sorbus aucuparia fruiting trees
From: Population and individual level of masting in a fleshy-fruited tree
Current year | Previous year | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Min T | Precipitation | Min T | Precipitation | |||||
Pr. | Fr. | Pr. | Fr. | Pr. | Fr. | Pr. | Fr. | |
April | 0.10 | −0.11 | −0.26 | −0.39 | 0.24 | 0.20 | −0.16 | −0.01 |
May | 0.15 | −0.02 | 0.23 | 0.40 | 0.82** | 0.79** | −0.15 | −0.14 |
June | 0.12 | 0.20 | 0.38 | 0.37 | 0.04 | −0.01 | −0.14 | −0.15 |
July | 0.26 | 0.19 | −0.81** | −0.84** | 0.33 | 0.23 | −0.04 | −0.09 |
August | 0.38 | 0.20 | 0.47 | 0.42 | 0.56 | 0.69* | 0.44 | 0.56 |
September | – | – | – | – | 0.09 | 0.21 | −0.24 | −0.21 |
October | – | – | – | – | 0.46 | 0.27 | −0.61 | −0.48 |