eucalypt

Eucalypt litter quality leads to low biological activity and results in a low litter decomposition rate in eucalypt plantations.

For non-Portuguese: the eucalypt refers to eucalyptus plantations, the wood being used for paper production.

Unlike Australia where the eucalypt is native, Californians have a choice.

Yields of lignocellosic biomass (dry mass) in the US (miscanthus, eucalypt) is almost an order of magnitude higher.

They were introduced just 150 years ago and parts of California have denser eucalypt forest than Australia now.

This meant that, for thousands of years, the fuel load in the eucalypt forests were reset on a regular schedule.

So back in Cali, bringing the eucalypt in the first place was the root cause.

I'm from Australia but hadn't heard of the Rainbow Eucalypt before (the tree that the featured tetrachromat painted).

A lot of work has been done on this in Australia, though the mostly eucalypt Australian situation might not apply to the US.

Tasmanian bluegum is the most common eucalypt in that range [0].

Small mammal populations in a eucalypt forest affected by fire and drought [2009] [1] tracks 5 species in a particular area from 1970 until 2005.

Why they have let the Australian eucalypt, which burn like incendiary torches due to being full of inflammable eucalypt oil, overrun their state simply defies any reasonable logic that I can think of.

> “These rainforests were historically neglected by tourists and walkers in favour of supposedly more ‘Australian’ eucalypt forests,” I don't think that's correct.

When I did it about 15 years ago we got dumped in a fenced in bit of eucalypt forest with our pockets stuffed with "normal" items like knives/shoelaces/mueslibars/1.25L bottles of water/first aid kits and told to survive for 24 hours.

The seeds of Eucalypt's that rely on fire to reproduce were incinerated.

Eucalypt leaf litter contains large amounts of phenolics (Bernhard-Reversat et al.

Eucalypt forests are not planted en-mass in Australia.