Marc-Antoine
TreeHouser
Beside all the dead organisms, vegetables and animals, a major issue is the loss of the nutriments. Firstly, the most valuable resource, the biochemical substances, is down graded to the mineral level. It's a giant loss for the ecosystem. Secondly, nothing holds this minerals and most are washed by the rain. Third, the soil itself is no more protected by the leafs (dead and alive) nor fixed by the roots, so the rain washes it out and puts it in the rivers.
It doesn't look like a moonscape maybe, but the loss is real and substantial. In the rocky areas it's even more dramatic because the soil is very thin at best. The result is that the ecosystem is locally broken up in small weakened patches. It takes many centuries or even millenniums to come back at the previous shape.
In our Mediterranean area, the fires take a big toll and come again and again. The multi-burned areas turn to desert, almost only bare rock. And the climate change makes the things worse.
It's a tragedy.
It doesn't look like a moonscape maybe, but the loss is real and substantial. In the rocky areas it's even more dramatic because the soil is very thin at best. The result is that the ecosystem is locally broken up in small weakened patches. It takes many centuries or even millenniums to come back at the previous shape.
In our Mediterranean area, the fires take a big toll and come again and again. The multi-burned areas turn to desert, almost only bare rock. And the climate change makes the things worse.
It's a tragedy.
