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 new study.
Researchers, including those from Nagoya University in Japan, say the large-scale flowering and seeding of the dwarf bamboo Sasa borealis is a rare event called that occurs only once every 120 years with the next one not expected in over 100 years.
