This Fall Is Full of Acorns–Thanks to a ‘Mast’ Year
November 17, 20234 min readTrees can outsmart animals such as squirrels and birds by synchronizing their seed productionBy Emily Moran & The Conversation USA mast year can be a squirrel’s dream come true. The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research.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…