became interested in fire
disturbance regimes and prescribed burning
The DSE Fire Ecology Program instigated major reviews of fire and its relationship to ecosystem resilience,
disturbance regimes and landscape heterogeneity (McCarthy 2012; DiStefano and York 2012), which provided the basis for future work and policy development on ecosystem resilience and fire management (see below in Recent developments).
These issues call for more paleoecological and long-term studies in relatively undisturbed forests that can serve as controls against which the effects of modified or novel
disturbance regimes can be assessed.
Despite these shortcomings, PLS records have proved useful for reconstructing forest composition, structure, and
disturbance regimes prior to significant alteration of the landscape by Euro-American settlers (Bourdo, 1956; Schulte and Mladenoff, 2001; Rhemtulla et al., 2009).
Predicting invertebrate diversity from
disturbance regimes in forest streams.
The density of this species increased with the magnitude of disturbance, as reflected by the steep rise in seedling number with increasing
disturbance regime. However, E.
The greatest area requirements generally arise from the objective of maintaining natural
disturbance regimes. In the temperate forest natural disturbances such as fire and insect outbreaks can impact thousands of square kilometres at a time.
In this paper, we specifically ask, what are the traits of ant species underlying their adaptation to different stress and
disturbance regimes and changes in these stress and
disturbance regimes?
Disturbance regimes, a natural part of ecosystems, create such dynamism.
This book provides a general consensus on three key issues: 1) Our forest management practices have altered natural
disturbance regimes, and the debate over the definition of "natural" will continue; 2) The issue of altered natural
disturbance regimes needs to be addressed by both forest managers and researchers; and 3) Emulating natural disturbances is a possible management paradigm to address inadequate forest management practices.
The relative effects of anthropogenic disturbance must be distinguished from the ranges of variation in natural
disturbance regimes, but because of the large size and variability of coastal ecosystems, manipulative experiments to untangle the complexities of the varying
disturbance regimes are difficult except on a relatively small scale.
Each page includes sections as follows: a description of the vegetation features plus brief notes on soils and natural
disturbance regimes; a comments section that gives pointers on separating this community from related ones; conservation rank using the Natural Heritage global system running from G1 (globally imperiled) to G5 (secure) and also providing state rankings (S1-S5); geographical distribution of the community; and synonymy.