No, your “mostly this” is climate change too. I’m taking the normal recovery from fire into account for one, and for another, much of these changes I’m talking about happened before the fire (like I mentioned with the banana slugs) which is also a big part of the reason why the fire was more damaging. These are feedback loops with one another, not separate things. For instance, there were fires that came through here in past decades and it didn’t happen like this. 25 years ago there was a fire that burned through a coastal park reserve about a 40 minute drive away from where I live. I visited it often both before and especially after that fire, I watched the sequence of different kinds of life year after year. There are even certain kind of trees there whose cones ONLY release their genetic material for reproduction when there’s a fire. Whatever area your graphic is from, it’s not the area I’m in which has fires more often than every 150 years. What I was trying to get across in my comment above is that the recovery after the fire is totally different now and that is due to climate change. Also the intensity of the fire itself was much more than past fires and that is due to climate change.
the image i linked is an example of secondary succession. it isn’t meant to represent any particular area. if your area only has fires every couple of decades or so then that’s what you’re seeing
Climate change is def causing some of what you’re observing but its mostly this:
No, your “mostly this” is climate change too. I’m taking the normal recovery from fire into account for one, and for another, much of these changes I’m talking about happened before the fire (like I mentioned with the banana slugs) which is also a big part of the reason why the fire was more damaging. These are feedback loops with one another, not separate things. For instance, there were fires that came through here in past decades and it didn’t happen like this. 25 years ago there was a fire that burned through a coastal park reserve about a 40 minute drive away from where I live. I visited it often both before and especially after that fire, I watched the sequence of different kinds of life year after year. There are even certain kind of trees there whose cones ONLY release their genetic material for reproduction when there’s a fire. Whatever area your graphic is from, it’s not the area I’m in which has fires more often than every 150 years. What I was trying to get across in my comment above is that the recovery after the fire is totally different now and that is due to climate change. Also the intensity of the fire itself was much more than past fires and that is due to climate change.
the image i linked is an example of secondary succession. it isn’t meant to represent any particular area. if your area only has fires every couple of decades or so then that’s what you’re seeing