Len Webb Ecological Images Collection
 Image No. 5-29 |
Disturbance -- FireDepleted tropical wet lowland rainforest invaded by fireNear Babinda, Queensland November 1958 Larger image (52K) |
Len Webb Ecological Images Collection
Depletion by logging, annual scorching of forest edges by fires from nearby sugar-cane farms lit before harvesting, and dry periods with delayed summer "wet season": the result is the unusual spectacle of rainforest "burning" in a moderately perhumid tropical lowland zone with over 4000 mm average annual rainfall.
Image No. 5-29Disturbance -- Fire
Depleted tropical wet lowland rainforest invaded by fire
Near Babinda, Queensland
November 1958
Larger image (52K)
