Len Webb Ecological Images Collection
Illustrates fire pattern at edge of rainforest (notophyll vine forest), where this vegetation is charred and killed for only a few metres once wildfire penetrates the bouldery (granite) boundary. Hence the ecological function of bouldery outcrops as "fire shadows" in burnt savanna/grassy woodland.
Image No. 5-99Landscapes -- Micro Vegetation Patterns -- Edge Fire
Very limited penetration by wildfire of rainforest on bouldery outcrop, which is a "fire shadow"
Mt. Fox to Ingham Road, Queensland
December 1968
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