For his research project, Galloway compared sites where naturally occurring vulnerable Cape Winelands Shale
fynbos grow with those on which Pinus radiata pines were
planted in the 1960s.
Double CO2 climate scenarios increase wildfire events by 40 - 50 % in California (Fried et al., 2004), and double fire risk in Cape
Fynbos (Midgley et al., 2005), favouring re-sprouting
plants in
Fynbos (Bond and Midgley, 2003), fire - tolerant shrub dominance in the Mediterranean Basin (Mouillot et al., 2002), and vegetation structural change in California (needle - leaved to broad - leaved trees, trees to grasses) and reducing productivity and carbon sequestration (Lenihan et al., 2003).