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Tricks Australian forests use to survive bushfires
A review by The Bushfire Recovery Project has confirmed how it is that Australian eucalypt forests survive and regenerate after devastating wildfires like the 2019-20 Black Summer fires.
The expert review of published research on forest recovery following fire, undertaken by a group of five scientists from Griffith and Australian National Universities, reported that eucalypt forests typically bounce back well using two key tricks.
Eucalypt forest recovery in east Gippsland, Monga and Murramarang
“Our key findings suggest that about 70 per cent of plant species within eucalypt forests survive bushfire using hidden ‘recovery buds’,” said Dr Patrick Norman, an ecologist with the Griffith Climate Change Response Program.