The intermediate disturbance hypothesis (IDH) suggests that local species diversity is maximized when ecological disturbance is neither too rare nor too...

Forest pathology Habitat destruction Human–wildlife conflict Intermediate disturbance hypothesis Old-growth forest Patch dynamics Stressor Dale, V.; Joyce...

diversity. Disturbance is important in tropics as a mechanism for maintaining diversity. According to the intermediate disturbance hypothesis (IDH), some...

of endemic species. However, the intermediate disturbance hypothesis posits that intermediate levels of disturbance in a landscape create patches at different...

to distinct, sometimes overlapping areas: light pollution and spatial disturbance. Light pollution is a major issue for nocturnal species, and the impact...

The mesopredator release hypothesis is an ecological theory used to describe the interrelated population dynamics between apex predators and mesopredators...

Ecotone Ecotype Disturbance Edge effects Foster's rule Habitat fragmentation Ideal free distribution Intermediate disturbance hypothesis Insular biogeography...

that can be observed in nature. Stratification (vegetation) Wood-pasture hypothesis Cowles, Henry Chandler (1899). "The Ecological Relations of the Vegetation...

ecological succession Cyclic succession Ecological stability Intermediate disturbance hypothesis Drury, W. H.; Nisbet, I. C. T. (1973). "Succession". Journal...

side cast sediment release, dewatering process, and sediment shift or disturbance, that would be expected with the deep-sea mining processes and could...

Intermediate Disturbance Hypothesis, where the biodiversity (the number of species that coexist in the population) is maximized when the disturbance (of...

recovers from the disturbance, the CDI moves into the dry/remains stage, which is characterized by a decrease in the intensity of the disturbance and an increase...

goal was to quantify and formalize a set of models to test their null hypothesis that animals forage randomly. Important contributions to foraging theory...

bioluminescent organisms had a common ancestor. However, he found this hypothesis to be false, with different organisms having major differences in the...

as the Paleoarchean, preceding that of cyanobacteria (see Purple Earth hypothesis). While the details may differ between species, the process always begins...

be evolutionary contingencies or brief or long-lasting environmental disturbances. Both paradigms agree that species are never "universal" in the sense...

temperature in the founder population. Invasive species often exploit disturbances to an ecosystem (wildfires, roads, foot trails) to colonize an area....

Ecosystems are dynamic, subject to periodic disturbances and always in the process of recovering from past disturbances. The tendency of an ecosystem to remain...

The green world hypothesis proposes that predators are the primary regulators of ecosystems: they are the reason the world is 'green', by regulating the...

Janzen-Connell hypothesis that explains plant-species diversity in tropical forests. Other notable works are his 1978 intermediate disturbance hypothesis and his...

evidence, such as the Bonn–Oberkassel dog dating to ~14,000 BP, supports the hypothesis that dog domestication preceded the emergence of agriculture and began...

Ecotone Ecotype Disturbance Edge effects Foster's rule Habitat fragmentation Ideal free distribution Intermediate disturbance hypothesis Insular biogeography...

Ecotone Ecotype Disturbance Edge effects Foster's rule Habitat fragmentation Ideal free distribution Intermediate disturbance hypothesis Insular biogeography...

Ecotone Ecotype Disturbance Edge effects Foster's rule Habitat fragmentation Ideal free distribution Intermediate disturbance hypothesis Insular biogeography...

benefits strongly from killing off or feeding on the intermediate predator, and if the intermediate predator is a better competitor for the shared prey...

Ecotone Ecotype Disturbance Edge effects Foster's rule Habitat fragmentation Ideal free distribution Intermediate disturbance hypothesis Insular biogeography...

Ecotone Ecotype Disturbance Edge effects Foster's rule Habitat fragmentation Ideal free distribution Intermediate disturbance hypothesis Insular biogeography...

Ecological threshold is the point at which a relatively small change or disturbance in external conditions causes a rapid change in an ecosystem. When an...

Ecotone Ecotype Disturbance Edge effects Foster's rule Habitat fragmentation Ideal free distribution Intermediate disturbance hypothesis Insular biogeography...

by scientists working in ecology, as it has been found that constant disturbances leading to chaotic and dynamic changes are the norm in nature. During...