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beech

a forest tree of the genus Fagus with glossy oval leaves, thin, smooth, greyish bark and fine-grained wood.
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successful pregnancies coinciding with beech mast).
Adirondack black bears: does beech nut abundance affect human-bear conflicts
There is an acorn crop but little or no beech mast. Sloes are equally scarce.
'Pass the crampons, I'm off to feed the pheasants'
Years with high vole densities and increased numbers of registered human hantavirus infections were preceded by years of intense coverage with beech mast (nuts of the European beech tree [Fagus sylvatica]) (10).
Multiple synchronous outbreaks of Puumala virus, Germany, 2010
However, this is the most herbivorous of the documented species and is, therefore, likely less reliant on beech mast than the others.
Assessing the responses of native small mammals to an incipient invasion of beech bark disease through changes in seed production of American beech (Fagus grandifolia)
But the trees are not from the random fall of beech mast or acorn, for these are the Nile Clumps, planted not long after Nelson's death at Trafalgar in 1805 to commemorate the exact formation of Nelson's fleet and that of his French enemies at the the Battle of the Nile, where Nelson won his great victory in 1798.
A place that represents much of what is important in the jumps game; Alastair Down travels to Wincanton, which yesterday staged its opening fixture

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