The effects of a phenomenon called tree masting on ecosystems and food webs can be better understood thanks to new theoretical models validated by real world observations. The effects of a phenomenon ...

This year, you may have noticed more acorns and pine cones on the ground than usual. “It’s nothing to necessarily be worried about, it’s just something that the tree’s naturally doing to keep on its ...

Masting, the intermittent and highly synchronised production of large seed crops by forest trees, is a widespread yet complex ecological phenomenon that influences forest regeneration, wildlife ...

It’s the classic harbinger of fall: the thump of black walnuts and the ping of acorns as they rain down from the tree canopy. This year my street has the usual track-marks of acorn paste on its ...

If you are walking under an oak tree this autumn on Long Island, one verb — duck — sums up best how to avoid becoming an unwitting player in an irregular fall phenomenon. Fall 2023 has marked the ...

MANKATO — The deer will eat well this winter. Thanks to a bountiful mass-seeding of oak trees, acorns lay thick on the ground in south-central Minnesota, as they do around the country. This phenomenon ...

BOSTON -- Acorns are falling with fury in New England this year. Residents may have heard a few pelt a car or watched as someone got hit in the head. WBZ-TV asked biologists, what is going on this ...

Acorns bounce like ping-pong balls on the sidewalk. Hickory nuts plop onto the lawn. Walnuts fall with a thud on the ground. These trees are pummeling anything and everything below their branches.