BIOLOGY 1M03 Lecture Notes - Wildfire, Krakatoa, Climax Species
17 Sep 2013
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Increases biodivestiy , because you opened to pioneerin species can come in , climax species. A community can be disrobed by many ways. Pioneering species, arent doing well on the ground. When a tree falls, it takes down many other trees. Other habitats of disburances, natural seelciton shapes to cope with the tragedy. Forest fire has gone thoruhg area, for pic on the right. Habitat is perfect for floren require early succcesional species. Fire sweeps through , lots of lighning storms ,- sandy nature makes it very. Wire grass is a type of grass that grows , recovers quickly so grows quickly after the fire. Slash pine lives for longer,have dense needles, fire comes through quickly through this , protect. Low palm trees have fan like leaves, survive the fire with dense needles, so when it gets big enough it drops the , so fire doesn"t catch on it. Wind changed direction, and fire was streaming towards head quarter.
