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Fire adaptations are traits of plants and animals that help them survive wildfire or to use resources created by wildfire. These traits can help plants and animals increase their survival rates during a fire and/or reproduce offspring after a fire. Both plants and animals have multiple strategies for surviving and reproducing after fire.
To repel herbivorous animals, various acacias protect their succulent leaves with one of several methods, including vicious-looking spines, repellent, noxious chemicals, and—as is the case with the bullhorn acacia—by developing a mutualism with the acacia ant. [2]
Monophagous species (animals that eat plants from a single genus) must produce specialized enzymes to detoxify their food, or develop specialized structures to deal with sequestered chemicals. Polyphagous species (animals that eat plants from many different families), on the other hand, produce more detoxifying enzymes (specifically MFO) to ...
Peccaries rely on their social structure to defend territory, protect against predators, regulate temperature, and interact with other members of the species. [ 14 ] Peccaries have scent glands below each eye and another on their backs, though these are believed to be rudimentary in P. maximus .
For example, trees from the genus Macaranga have adapted their thin stem walls to create ideal housing for ants (genus Crematogaster), which, in turn, protects the plant from herbivores. [76] In addition to providing housing, the plant also provides the ant with its exclusive food source; from the food bodies produced by the plant.
Animal facilities, veterinarians and rescue organizations have taken in and assisted dogs, horses, donkeys, goats, sheep and other creatures that were displaced by the ongoing fires along with ...
For example, plants of the genus Eucalyptus contain flammable oils that encourage fire and hard sclerophyll leaves to resist heat and drought, ensuring their dominance over less fire-tolerant species. [17] [18] Dense bark, shedding lower branches, and high water content in external structures may also protect trees from rising temperatures. [19 ...
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