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Is it true that forest fires allow new plants to grow?
No, a forest fire does not allow new plants to grow since when a forest fire breaks out, the effects can be terrible. Wildlife is destroyed and driven out by the flames and heat. After the forest fire, the forest appears completely different. The plants and trees have now turned into charcoal, smoke and ash. We have to wait for centuries for the new plants to grow and replace the old forest.
What do you call the process when a forest grows back after a forest fire?
Reforestation? Small plants grow but are eventually replaced by larger plants.
How might the ash be beneficial to agriculture?
in the forest when there is a forest fire, not long after, the ash helps the new plants grow
What effect do lychens have on their environment?
They are the very first plants to grow after a volcano exploding or forest fire.
Why do few plants grow on forest floor?
Few plants grow tall on the forest floor because there is a lack of sunlight.
How can a forest fire effect plants?
trees are plants and fire kills trees.
How do plants in the rain forest find light?
They grow quickly or grow in other plants's tracks
How forest grows themselves?
well the forest grows itself because it rains which makes it grow like plants grow when they have been watered so the trees and plants all grow and spread that a forest grows
These plants are found on the forest floor they grow on dead and decaying plants which are these plants?
saprophytic plants
Fuel as to Fern as what is to byrophytes?
Pioneer Species. Mosses are bryophytes and are often considered a "pioneer species" that will establish itself first in a forest that has been cleared by a forest fire. Ferns and other vascular plants are the "fuel" of the fires and burn out. Then when the forest begins to grow again, the non-vascular plants like the mosses (bryophytes) will grow first.
Is a forest fire an example of secondary succession?
Small plants grow but are eventually replaced by larger plants.
How do forest fire bad for plants?
Because it destroys them.
