 Both gidgee and blackwood, in contrast, have a limited capacity to resprout following fire damage.A notable exception to the fire tolerance of brigalow communities occurs in what are referred to as softwood scrubs, which are dense communities of brigalow and a range of particularly fire-sensitive species.Fire in any brigalow or gidgee woodland would be a rare event under natural circumstances, since pasture is at best sparse in these communities, consisting of "Chloris", "Paspalidium", "Dicanthium", "Sporobolus" and "Eragrostis" species.