Long inter‐fire intervals do not guarantee a large seed bank in a serotinous shrub (Banksia spinulosaSm.)

It is often assumed that long‐lived woody perennials with canopy‐stored seed banks steadily accumulate seeds over time since fire. Trends in flowering and fruiting have usually been inferred from synchronic studies of sites of different post‐fire ages or counting stored seeds in apparent age classes, and mostly in obligate‐seeder species. Long‐term longitudinal studies on a broader range of species are needed to fully understand the dynamics of...