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1. Disturbances (e.g. fires, floods, windstorms, landslides and tsunamis) are ubiquitous throughout the world. Many social and ecological systems have...
Read moreMaintenance of ecological integrity and biodiversity must be based on well-grounded principles of disturbance ecology. However, non-equilibrium aspect...
Read moreEcosystems are shaped by a range of drivers including human and natural disturbances. They also may be subject to interactions between disturbances wh...
Read moreUnderstanding multiple ecological determinants of plant diversity and composition underpins good vegetation management. In mesic ecosystems, ecologica...
Read moreDisturbance is a fundamental ecological process and driver of population dynamics. Ecologists seek to understand the effects of disturbance on ecologi...
Read moreThe soil seed bank represents valuable rebuilding capital that may rescue an ecosystem from state transition once vegetation has crossed an apparent t...
Read moreEcological systems are prone to disturbances and perturbations. For stage-structured populations, communities and ecosystems, measurements of system m...
Read moreConcepts of ecosystem stability, resilience and resistance have been discussed theoretically for nearly three decades. Understanding the effects of ha...
Read more1. Boreal forests provide numerous ecological services, including the ability to store large amounts of carbon, and are of significance to global biod...
Read moreShifts in species geographic distributions in response to climate change have spurred numerous studies to determine which abiotic (e.g. climatic) and,...
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