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The Australian bush needs fire to germinate new plants and trees too.
by bamboozled 5y ago
The Australian bush needs fire to germinate new plants and trees too.
- h0l0cube 5y agoThere are many indigenous plant species that do not germinate by fire (e.g., northofagus) and these populations are under threat as fires encroach on areas that have long been refuge for fire-sensitive plants. If a fire wipes out these populations, gum trees grow in their place and it takes up to half a millennium for these to die off. On the other hand, fire-tolerant plants are plentiful in places like Australia.
- stevage 5y agoBut not too often. we are losing forests because a second fire is coming through before the first generation of trees reached maturity. Once that happens, there is no coming back.
- bamboozled 5y agoMy point is that if we have drones which stop fires altogether, new issues which likely come out of that.