Re:A global reforestation project is how we fix climate change
by pitay on Thursday January 16, 2020 @10:27PM
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I'd avoid introducing Eucalypts to places they aren't already prevalent. Fires don't kill them, but do kill a lot of their competition, they drop very flammable leaf and branch litter, have oily explosive sap, so naturally they spread with fires. With more fires the more eucalypts spread, with more eucalypts there are more uncontrollable fires.
A country where Eucalypts are completely dominant is Australia. In the US California is full of them. Both Australia and California have uncontrollable fire problems.
There are plantations of eucalyptus trees in Brazil, either they don't know what introducing them will do to their country or they just don't care.
Before using eucalypts, consider what introducing a very invasive tree that transforms the countryside into something much more flammable than it originally was will do.
Re:A global reforestation project is how we fix climate change
by pvaldes on Friday January 17, 2020 @06:39AM
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Agree with that, but must be noted that Eucalyptus has 700 species and not all make fireforests (I like that definition and we don't have any for that so I'll coined it).
> either they don't know what introducing or ...
Is a monoculture. They don't care. Is hard to claim ignorance still in the age of Google.
You can find photos of trees regrowing light fast after being chopped, and from an old root but this is not how you measure accurately growth in a tree. The tree enters in emergency mode and is using all the reserves in the root to restore the lost canopy ASAP. It will slow down considerably in the following years.