I appreciate your style of writing and the way you explained the soil seed bank. That analogy of the way the forest self heals with the available seed bank and that of a man that lost everything to natural disaster and had to rely on bank savings made your explanation quite vivid. I must say you will make a good teacher too.
I am wondering if bush burning could degrade soil seed bank making it difficult for the forest to self heal? What of wind and water erosion? Do they have effect on the reserve of the seed bank?