Community phenology "barcode"
Each row is a species (ordered by ripe-fruit peak month); colour = long-run share of trees carrying ripe fruit in that calendar month. Reads top-to-bottom as the forest's fruiting calendar.
The pulse of the forest — 9 years
Community mean share of trees flowering (open flowers) and fruiting (ripe fruit) each month, 2017–2026.
Fruit-availability calendar
Mean community ripe-fruit availability by month (the frugivore food supply). Lean months in muted tone.
Temporal niche partitioning
Do species stagger fruiting or clump? Mean pairwise overlap of fruiting calendars (0 = perfectly staggered, 1 = identical timing).
Which species are in fruit this month?
Long-run (9-year average) ripe-fruit presence per calendar month. Pick a month; switch between % of each species (share of that species' own trees carrying ripe fruit) and share of all fruiting trees (abundance-weighted — how much of the community's fruit each species actually supplies).
Has phenology shifted over 9 years?
Per-species trend in peak timing (days/year). Bars right = later (delaying), left = earlier (advancing). Solid = p<0.10. Peak-timing for irregular reproducers is noisier — read alongside the species-detail series.
Shift table
Click a header to sort. "Anomaly trend" is a Mann–Kendall test on deseasonalised intensity (z>0 intensifying). Click a row to open that species.
Nine-year phenology
Monthly share of trees in each phase.
Seasonal clock
Average timing around the year.
Masting & individuals
Climate response (flowering)
Strongest anomaly correlation & lag per driver.
Elevation & timing (elev. provisional)
Fruit peak month per trail vs elevation.
Which species are most climate-sensitive?
Phenological "plasticity" = strongest flowering-anomaly correlation with any climate driver. Higher = flowering tracks year-to-year climate more tightly.
Plasticity vs traits
Climate seasonality
Monthly climatology at the Iyerpadi station.
Every year, month by month
Community phenology as a year (rows) × month (columns) grid. Bright horizontal bands are heavy years; a persistently dark column block is a lean season. Reveals mast years and whether the dry-season gap is deepening — things the 9-year average hides.
Annual intensity & interannual variability
Total community effort per year (bars) with the long-run mean. Tall/short alternation = community-level masting rhythm.
Reproductive strategy space
Each species placed by seasonality (how concentrated in the year) and frequency (peaks per year), sized by amplitude. This is the Newstrom et al. classification of tropical phenological rhythms — most Valparai trees are supra-annual (masting) rather than strictly annual.
The leaf → flower → fruit cascade
Each row is a species; dots mark its average peak month for leaf flush, open flowers and ripe fruit, joined in sequence. Ordered by flowering peak — read top-to-bottom as the year's procession.
Fruit development time
Months from flowering peak to ripe-fruit peak — how long each species takes to ripen a crop.
Individual reproductive raster
Each row is one tagged tree; columns are years. Colour = reproductive intensity. When trees fire together you see vertical bands (masting/synchrony); scattered speckle means individuals act independently. This uses the individual-tree IDs the original analysis set aside.