NIOO-KNAWFeb 28, 2025
New publication: Continent-Wide Drivers of Spatial Synchrony in Breeding Demographic Structure Across Wild Great Tit Populations. #parusmajor #demography #mastseeding #agestructure #populationdynamics
https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.70079
ScienceActuallyAug 6, 2024

Masting, or mast seeding, is a strategy where oak trees (and other types of trees that produce nuts or seeds) produce a large number of acorns in some years and very few in others.

#science #sciencefacts #acorns #masting #mastseeding

PatrickJun 7, 2023

Ah ha!
#MastSeeding
#cottonwoods

https://blockclubchicago.org/2023/06/07/whats-up-with-all-the-white-fluff-why-cottonwood-trees-are-seeding-like-crazy-this-year/

What’s Up With All The White Fluff? Why Cottonwood Trees Are Seeding Like Crazy This Year

These types of trees expel their seeds en masse every few years, and it usually only lasts a few weeks. The seed blizzard is more noticeable this year because there's been so little rain, an expert said.

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