In ecology, a disturbance is a temporary change in environmental conditions that causes a pronounced change in an ecosystem. Disturbances often act quickly...

ecology as the theory is tested in various ecological communities. Other evidence exists for and against the hypothesis. The intermediate disturbance...

down Disturbance (ecology), a temporary change in average environmental conditions that causes a pronounced change in an ecosystem Disturbance (geology)...

after disturbance of a community, such as from a fire, severe windthrow, or logging. Succession was among the first theories advanced in ecology. Ecological...

and responsiveness of Jamaican montane tree species after disturbance by a hurricane". Ecology. 76 (8): 2562–2580. doi:10.2307/2265828. JSTOR 2265828. D'Antonio...

ecology". Ecological science has boomed in the industrial investment of restoring ecosystems and their processes in abandoned sites after disturbance...

equilibrium state, despite that disturbance, is termed its resistance. The capacity of a system to absorb disturbance and reorganize while undergoing...

"Chapter 17: Disturbance, Succession, and Community Assembly in Terrestrial Plant Communities". Assembly rules and restoration ecology : bridging the...

remaining from before the disturbance. These biological legacies highly influence the reestablishment of the post-disturbance ecology. Some species from each...

relationships Rhizopogon are thought to play an important role in the ecology of coniferous forests. Recent micromorphological and molecular phylogenetic...

Landscape ecology is the science of studying and improving relationships between ecological processes in the environment and particular ecosystems. This...

are mediated by regional-to-local level climate, disturbance, and management. Thus ecosystem ecology provides a powerful framework for identifying ecological...

In ecology, resilience is the capacity of an ecosystem to respond to a perturbation or disturbance by resisting damage and subsequently recovering. Such...

habitat disturbance, such as the introduction of invasive species. On a deeper level the meaning and value of the community concept in ecology is up for...

patch mosaic created and maintained by tidal disturbances. Patch dynamics became a dominant theme in ecology between the late 1970s and the 1990s. Patch...

local effects, such as on noise, water pollution, habitat destruction/disturbance and local air quality; and the wider environmental effects of transport...

culture, traditional ecological knowledge, ethnobotany, ecology of mosses, disturbance ecology, and general botany. She is the director of the newly established...

species, sympatric speciation appears to have occurred. Disturbance (ecology) Island ecology Mammals of the Caribbean Patch dynamics Distance decay Sky...

ecological and environmental challenges. Islands portal Ecology portal Disturbance (ecology) Island biogeography Island syndrome Hawaiian honeycreeper...

two ecosystems form the more general study area of freshwater or aquatic ecology. A wetland is a distinct ecosystem that is flooded or saturated by water...

In ecology, habitat refers to the array of resources, physical and biotic factors that are present in an area, such as to support the survival and reproduction...

highlights the changing perspectives of ecology and education. In 2007 Johnson published Plant Disturbance Ecology: the Process and the Response. E.A. Johnson...

Evolutionary ecology lies at the intersection of ecology and evolutionary biology. It approaches the study of ecology in a way that explicitly considers...

Some examples of behavioural ecology Behavioral ecology, also spelled behavioural ecology, is the study of the evolutionary basis for animal behavior due...

hierarchical model can integrate disturbance, dispersal and population dynamics. Based on factors of dispersal, disturbance, resources limiting climate, and...

cases in which human-mediated disturbance increases biodiversity as landscapes transform over time. Historical ecology challenges the very notion of a...

Soundscape ecology is the study of the acoustic relationships between living organisms, human and other, and their environment, whether the organisms...

productivity rates are Biomass – Biological material from either living (see ecology) or recently living organisms (see bioenergy) Biomass (energy) – Biological...

Isotopes to Estimate Trophic Position: Models, Methods, and Assumptions". Ecology. 83 (3): 703–718. doi:10.1890/0012-9658(2002)083[0703:USITET]2.0.CO;2....

In ecology, an ecosystem is said to possess ecological stability (or equilibrium) if it is capable of returning to its equilibrium state after a perturbation...