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- A mast year occurs when a bumper crop is produced. It has the effect of increasing the potential for reproduction but also feeds-up creatures in anticipation of a hard winter.<\/li>\n
- Mast seeding is also called masting and the produce is a mast<\/li>\n
- Mast years are so called due to the\u00c2\u00a0 production of many seeds by a plant every two years or so<\/li>\n
- Masts are often produced in in regional synchrony with other plants of the same species.<\/li>\n
- It is thought a mast year may be designed as a defense to assist reproduction of a species because seed predators become satiated before all the seeds have been consumed.<\/li>\n
- Many species ‘mast’ including oak, hickory, and beech with their <\/span><\/span>acorns, hickory nuts, and as with beechnuts they <\/span><\/span>produce a ‘hard mast’.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
- Fruit trees and other species may produce a soft mast but the volume of produce will still be much more fruit than normal<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As I walked past a line of trees the beech nut husks crunched under foot. The pavement was strewn with copious quantities of this crunchy produce from the venerable trees. I was moved to include a few notes on nature’s masting process. Mast Production A mast year occurs when a bumper crop is produced. It has the effect of increasing the potential for reproduction but also feeds-up creatures in anticipation of a hard winter. Mast seeding is also called masting…<\/p>\n
- Fruit trees and other species may produce a soft mast but the volume of produce will still be much more fruit than normal<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n