Regeneration of eucalyptus forest in Kinglake National Park, Victoria Australia. The area around Kinglake suffered the worst effects of the so-called

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Regeneration of eucalyptus forest in Kinglake National Park, Victoria Australia. The area around Kinglake suffered the worst effects of the so-called \Black Saturday\" bushfires on 7th February 2009. The fire complex eventually destroyed over 300000ha of vegetation and more than 1200 homes; it burned out 99% of Kinglake National picture shows an area of the park in January 2013. Four years after the fire, the blackened remains of destroyed trees, both fallen and still standing, are visible. Small herbaceous plants have regrown ( foreground ). In the background, the bushy understorey is the result of regeneration of the burned trees from lignotubers - storage organs found at the base of many Eucalyptus species, and consisting of woody tissue with adventitious buds, from which new shoots can emerge following fire"

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Photo credit: © DR JEREMY BURGESS/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Alamy / Afripics
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Keywords: biological, biology, black, botanical, botany, bushfire, eucalyptus, fire, forest, kinglake, lignotuber, national, park, regeneration, regrowth, saturday