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Small Mammals Sync Breeding with Tree Seed Cycles

3/4/2025

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New Hampshire's Bartlett and Hubbard Brook Experimental Forests have been crucial to ecological research since the early 1900s. Recent findings reveal that small mammals adjust their breeding schedules to coincide with tree seed availability, playing a key role in forest regeneration. This insight enhances our understanding of ecosystem management and the effects of climate change.

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New Hampshire's Bartlett and Hubbard Brook Experimental Forests have been crucial to ecological research since the early 1900s. Recent findings reveal that small mammals adjust their breeding schedules to coincide with tree seed availability, playing a key role in forest regeneration. This insight enhances our understanding of ecosystem management and the effects of climate change.