Tons of acorns? It must be a mast year

Tons of acorns? It must be a mast year
"If you have oak trees in your neighborhood, perhaps you’ve noticed that some years the ground is carpeted with their acorns, and some years there are hardly any. Biologists call this pattern, in which all the oak trees for miles around make either lots of acorns or almost none, “masting.”
...All the trees are making tons of acorns all at the same time.
...It’s still something of a mystery how trees synchronize their seed production to get these benefits, but several elements seem to be important.
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