Faster recycling occurs during a fire. Gasses are released into the atmosphere in the form of smoke. In the burned area, nitrogen and other nutrients remain and are leached back into the soil as rain soaks the ground. This is nature's way of rapidly recycling nutrients. Unfortunately, when there's too much fuel on the ground and it's burned in an intense wildfire these benefits are often missing.
Intense fires tend to scorch the ground and kill the trees above.
Slowly decomposing materials release nutrients steadily into the soil. This continuous release helps to maintain growth over a long period of time. Decomposition can last indefinitely as long as dead material on the forest floor continues to accumulate. In other areas of the world, a wildfire may happen once every 600 years. Wildfires cause fast nutrient recycling.