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A seed survival story: How trees keep 'friends' close and 'enemies' guessing

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    Learned a new word today, masting, "the unpredictable boom-and-bust cycle of seed production."

    Learned a new word today, masting, "the unpredictable boom-and-bust cycle of seed production."

    A new study by an international team of scientists that included millions of tree-year observations worldwide, published in Nature Plants, for the first time documents and analyzes the intricate balance between seed defense and dispersal by forest trees at a global scale. Researchers from 70 institutions contributed to the paper.

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