Perhaps the best example is masting in trees. 

Pati Vitt

> On Feb 4, 2017, at 6:57 PM, David Inouye <ino...@umd.edu> wrote:
> 
> The classic examples of populations that cycle, including predator-prey 
> interactions, and some host-parasite interactions, all involve animals.  Are 
> there similar examples of cycles in plant populations?  Certainly lots of 
> variation in abundance, such as in population size of desert annuals 
> responding to precipitation, but what about regular (cyclic) variation?
> 
> David Inouye
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