The intermediate disturbance hypothesis (IDH) suggests that local species diversity is maximized when ecological disturbance is neither too rare nor too...
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Forest pathology Habitat destruction Human–wildlife conflict Intermediate disturbance hypothesis Old-growth forest Patch dynamics Stressor Dale, V.; Joyce...
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diversity. Disturbance is important in tropics as a mechanism for maintaining diversity. According to the intermediate disturbance hypothesis (IDH), some...
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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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Nocturnality (section Spatial disturbance)
to distinct, sometimes overlapping areas: light pollution and spatial disturbance. Light pollution is a major issue for nocturnal species, and the impact...
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The mesopredator release hypothesis is an ecological theory used to describe the interrelated population dynamics between apex predators and mesopredators...
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Bacteriophage (redirect from Headful hypothesis)
Ecotone Ecotype Disturbance Edge effects Foster's rule Habitat fragmentation Ideal free distribution Intermediate disturbance hypothesis Insular biogeography...
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Climax community (redirect from Disturbance climax)
that can be observed in nature. Stratification (vegetation) Wood-pasture hypothesis Cowles, Henry Chandler (1899). "The Ecological Relations of the Vegetation...
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ecological succession Cyclic succession Ecological stability Intermediate disturbance hypothesis Drury, W. H.; Nisbet, I. C. T. (1973). "Succession". Journal...
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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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Intermediate Disturbance Hypothesis, where the biodiversity (the number of species that coexist in the population) is maximized when the disturbance (of...
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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...
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goal was to quantify and formalize a set of models to test their null hypothesis that animals forage randomly. Important contributions to foraging theory...
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bioluminescent organisms had a common ancestor. However, he found this hypothesis to be false, with different organisms having major differences in the...
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as the Paleoarchean, preceding that of cyanobacteria (see Purple Earth hypothesis). While the details may differ between species, the process always begins...
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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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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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Ecosystems are dynamic, subject to periodic disturbances and always in the process of recovering from past disturbances. The tendency of an ecosystem to remain...
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The green world hypothesis proposes that predators are the primary regulators of ecosystems: they are the reason the world is 'green', by regulating the...
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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...
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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...
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Ecotone Ecotype Disturbance Edge effects Foster's rule Habitat fragmentation Ideal free distribution Intermediate disturbance hypothesis Insular biogeography...
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Ecotone Ecotype Disturbance Edge effects Foster's rule Habitat fragmentation Ideal free distribution Intermediate disturbance hypothesis Insular biogeography...
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benefits strongly from killing off or feeding on the intermediate predator, and if the intermediate predator is a better competitor for the shared prey...
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Ecotone Ecotype Disturbance Edge effects Foster's rule Habitat fragmentation Ideal free distribution Intermediate disturbance hypothesis Insular biogeography...
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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...
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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...
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