Tons of Acorns? It Must Be a Mast Year

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By The ConversationNov 15, 2019, 1:44 pm139 pts
By Emily Moran 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." In New…

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