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Uneducated hypothesis; the choice of a mast year isn't random, but is some sort of response to the environment. If that's true, then multiple trees in the same
by dtgriscom 3y ago
Uneducated hypothesis; the choice of a mast year isn't random, but is some sort of response to the environment. If that's true, then multiple trees in the same environment will tend to have the same mast years.
- hinkley 3y agoIt's all the trees in at least a bioregion though. If they're not upwind or downwind from each other, if some are in the foothills and see more rain, nobody has caught them masting on a different cycle. Which is just fuckin' weird.
- trhway 3y agofungi network? There were studies how the trees help each other through the fungi networks - though my thinking is that it is fungi who balance the tree coverage to their liking. Either way the studies clearly established that the fungi network is a tree communicating network of at least grove-scale. I think it may as well be much bigger - especially if it is fungi who would orchestrate, or at least symbiotically help to orchestrate, the mast year behavior.