"Fall disappearance; Following a 2-year bumper crop, acorns are missing in action" November 16, 2011|By David Abel, Globe Staff
A year after a bumper crop of acorns littered streets and parks throughout the region, these nuts seem to have vanished this autumn in New England, a little-understood phenomenon that scientists say will ripple throughout the ecosystem and devastate the population of everything from chipmunks to owls....
One theory for why there could be such a drastic change in acorn production from one year to the next involves the genetics of the trees....
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