Contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Disturbance and succession / Edward A. Johnson and Kiyoko Miyanishi -- Introduction -- Disturbance as the nemesis of succession -- The chronosequence ...

Disturbance can profoundly modify the structure of natural communities. However, microbial ecologists’ concept of “disturbance” has often deviated from conventional practice. Definitions (or implicit ...

María Uriarte is Professor of Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology at Columbia University and an affiliate of the Department of Statistics and the Earth Institute. Her research addresses one ...

‐ natural disturbance regimes ‐ biotic interactions — such as mutualism (including such mutualists as mycorrhizal networks (MNs)), competition, parasitism, predation (which includes browsing/grazing ...

Extreme events wipe out entire forests, dramatically eliminating complex ecosystems as well as local communities. Researchers have become quite familiar with such attention-grabbing events over the ...