How do the trees synchronize their reproductive efforts? Oaks, the dominant tree genus throughout much of low- and mid-elevation, temperate California, are full of mysteries.
An Enduring Oak Mystery: Synchronized Acorn Booms
July 5, 2022 •
Walt Koenig
Walt Koenig is research zoologist emeritus at UC Berkeley and a visiting fellow at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology in Ithaca, New York. During his career he conducted long term research at Hastings Natural History Reservation, located in upper Carmel Valley, where he still resides and continues to study the behavioral ecology of oaks and acorn woodpeckers.