Lukas VFN 🇪🇺#Plants in the #Cerrado combine at least two strategies to survive fire
https://phys.org/news/2023-10-cerrado-combine-strategies-survive.html
To protect or to hide: Why not both? An investigation of fire-related strategies in Cerrado woody species https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0367253023001408
"the plants have evolved two distinct strategies for resprouting from underground buds: #ClonalGrowth associated with a considerable effort to protect aerial branches; and on-spot persistence, possibly linked to a stronger focus on protecting buds in organs below ground"
Plants in the Cerrado combine at least two strategies to survive fire, study shows
In an article published in the journal Flora, researchers at São Paulo State University (UNESP) in Brazil examine some of the strategies developed over eons of evolution by plants in the Cerrado, Brazil's savanna-like biome, to protect themselves and resprout quickly after fire.