I wonder whether the unexpected pattern seen in the oaks around DC this
year is due to factors which can complicate the masting pattern.
A few years ago I co-authored a paper using time series of masting in
relation to climate records (G. Piovesan & J.M. Adams in Ecological
Research).
My recollec
I was jogging on a pavement of burr oak acorns this September in
Minneapolis. Whether a mast year would have been predicted here, or whether
other species should also have been masting, I have no idea.
On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 12:59 PM, Carrie DeJaco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm in the Charlo
We see a few, albeit very few, acorns in MD (not none). Friends at the
Smithsonian's Environmental Research Center (SERC) in Edgewater, MD told us
that there is a pattern of low, medium, high, low mast production that helps
foil squirrels and others that try to profiteer too much on the seed
pr
I'm in the Charlotte, NC area. Our oaks and hickories have produced
just fine this year. I don't know how the numbers compare to mast
years, but they certainly did produce fruit this year.
One related note of interest, though-- last fall, I was searching
through a woods for seeds of a local magno
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Here at Hilton Pond Center for Piedmont Natural History near York SC
USA there was a massive crop of White Oak (Quercus alba) acorns, with
smaller production from our Southern Red Oaks (Q. falcata).
Local Shagbark Hickory (Carya ovata) and Black Walnut (Juglans nigra)
also had heavier nut prod
I'm 4 hours from DC in coastal NJ. We had almost no acorns from many of
our trees, but there was not a complete absence of acorns.
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A front-page article in today's Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/29/AR2008112902045.html?hpid=topnews
describes the failure of the acorn mast this year over a large area
around Washington, D.C. Also hickory nuts. It should have been
(based on histor
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