BIOL10001 Lecture 9: BIOL10001 Lecture 9 Notes
20 Sep 2018
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Fire frequency has increased in the recent millions of years. Majority of the landscape has been burnt at some point in the past decade. Some vegetation types are more prone than others. Often around central western australia, south east australia and in the northern territory. Northern queensland/northern territory have res regularly, almost annually or biannually. E ects of re depends on temperature and duration (speed) of the re. Fast, hot re may do less damage than a slow long re. Plant adaptations to fire: tolerance, regrowth, promotion. Protective features, even stimulated by re to ower. Adult plant killed but the seeds survive into the next generation. Eucalypts with oil in leaves to help rst burn rapidly and thus cause the plant less damage as the re is over faster. A species can be one of two things usually: Adult plant survives as it is less likely to die by re, puts out new growth.
