More than 60 billion leaf litter invertebrates died in the Black Summer fires. Here's what that did to ecosystems
- Written by: Heloise Gibb, Professor, La Trobe University
The predatory beetle eurylychnus blagraveiNick Porch, Author providedThe Black Summer megafires engulfing south-eastern Australia in 2019–2020 were so intense they burned habitats rarely exposed to fire, such as southern warm temperate rainforest.
These rainforests range from East Gippsland in Victoria up to just south of Sydney. Usually,...