Len Webb Ecological Images Collection

Image No. 5-104

Disturbance -- Fire Mountain Ash forest destruction by running-crown fire Highlands area, Victoria August 1955 Larger image (111K)

Tall wet sclerophyll forest regenerating after destruction by running-crown fires which characterise winter fire regimes in south-eastern Australia, including Tasmania. Typically Eucalyptus regnans (Mountain Ash).
Reference:
Victorian Rainforest Symposium (1992 : Melbourne, Vic.) Victoria's Rainforests: Perspectives on Definition, Classification and Management. Edited by P. Gell and D. Mercer. Monash Publications in Geography No. 41. Melbourne, Vic., Monash University, 1992.

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