“…The emergence of seedlings post disturbance is a critical preliminary stage in the recovery of forest ecosystems and is triggered by several environmental and species-specific factors (Bell, 1999;Clarke et al, 2009;Ford & HilleRisLambers, 2020;Long et al, 2015;Walck et al, 2011;Wright et al, 2018). These include the following: (a) heat and smoke produced during wildfires (that can break seed dormancy) (Auld & Denham, 2006;Flematti et al, 2004;Long et al, 2015), (b) an increase in the availability of nutrients (Chambers & Attiwill, 1994), (c) the presence of soil symbionts (Jumpponen et al, 2012) or pathogens (Ashton & Chinner, 1999), (d) the presence of remnant vegetation (Kara & Topaçoğlu, 2018), and (e) climatic conditions such as an increase in solar radiation, water availability (Ashton & Kelliher, 1996;Bell, 1994;Harper et al, 1965;Titus & del Moral, 1998), and temperature (Ford & HilleRisLambers, 2020). The composition of emerging plant species post disturbance is also regulated by the distribution, longevity, and dormancy of reproductive propagules (Palmer et al, 2018) and dispersal mechanisms or barriers of dispersal such as habitat fragmentation or distance to source population, which may be species-specific (Primack & Miao, 1992;Tautenhahn et al, 2016).…”