Once-in-a-century dwarf bamboo flowering linked to rodent population outburst and disease outbreak. Findings offer clues on how forest ecosystem changes affect organisms that live there ...

The large-scale flowering and seeding of dwarf bamboo is a rare event. This plant phenomenon is called masting, and the next one is not expected for more than 100 years.

An event that occurs only once every 120 years, the large-scale flowering, seeding, and dying of dwarf bamboo (Sasa borealis), has been found to provide ideal breeding conditions for Japanese ...

The rare, once-in-a-century large-scale flowering of a dwarf bamboo species may trigger a population boom of the Japanese field mice, leading to forestry damage and disease outbreaks, according to a ...

An unseasonably cold spring wind blasts in from the north shaking all before it. Oak trunks tremble; mast-like young white birches sway alarmingly and ineffectively rattle their branches at it.

Bamboo Is About To Flower For The First Time In 120 Years. It Could Be A Disaster Every 120 years it flowers, ... or dwarf ramet production apparent," the team added in their paper.

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