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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

entities—they are subject to periodic disturbances and are always in the process of recovering from some past disturbance. The tendency of an ecosystem to...

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single facilitator species mediating some community-wide stress, such as disturbance. An example of such "whole-community" facilitation is substrate stabilization...

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

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

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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...

which Myrmica ants live. Disturbance is important in the creation of biodiverse habitat types. In the absence of disturbance, a climax vegetation cover...

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