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Tag: subalpine

One year after Tasmania’s alpine wildfire

Posted onMarch 13, 2017May 13, 2017

In February 2017 I visited the charred landscape around Lake Mackenzie on Tasmania’s Central Plateau. Having seen many photographs of the devastation in the months after the bushfires of January 2016 I was curious to see the damage – and Read More …

CategoriesTasmaniaTagsalpine, Athrotaxis, bushfire, Central Plateau, conifers, fire ecology, subalpine, World Heritage

The limits to tree growth

Posted onSeptember 30, 2016October 25, 2016

What is the treeline? If you go high enough up a tall mountain there is a point where trees disappear and you transition into low alpine vegetation. The same holds if you travel toward the North Pole, where the boreal Read More …

CategoriesUncategorisedTagsalpine, forest, subalpine, treeline, trees

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