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Can We Predict Masting Years?
There is a data base coming around that's going to help researchers answer some of these questions. Researchers in europe started out by just compiling records of beach and norway spruce massing events throughout the last 200 years. And once they had all those events mapped, they could then overlay when the climate oscillations were changing. Once we understand what triggers mast ting, we can have a better sense of when masting will occur.
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