Talk:Mast year

Merger
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. &mdash;JerryFriedman (Talk) 05:56, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
 * 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)


 * 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)
 * Support I agree with Tamfang idea of putting them all under Mast (botany).Sepilok2007 (talk) 12:14, 8 June 2012 (UTC)

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