Disturbance events can occur at many scales and different levels of severity, ... the acid test for ecology. In Restoration Ecology: A Synthetic Approach to Ecological Research. eds. Jordan, ...

The EKU Disturbance Ecology in Central Appalachia summer research program is open to current undergraduates from all institutions. Students must be currently enrolled in a 2-year or 4-year school.

Describe what typical boulders in the 3 disturbance categories would look like (e.g. the kinds of organisms, other characteristics). Sousa measured movement of the rocks with a spring scale. What ...

Disturbances such as prescribed fire and timber harvest are used by land managers as tools when targeting plant communities (e.g., to regenerate oaks) associated with natural disturbance regimes that ...

My research focuses on the structure, function, and disturbance ecology of temperate forest landscapes of western North America. I use a combination of field-based longitudinal datasets, remote ...

With more than half the world now living in cities and urban land cover expected to increase by about 1.2 million square ...

My research interests are in disturbance ecology, climate variability, forest mortality processes, tree ecophysiology, ecological restoration, and biogeography of temperate forests and montane ...

Human activities such as mining, agriculture, urbanization, damming and logging threaten the habitats of great apes in Africa and Asia. Apes have shown resilience to these disruptions by adapting ...

More information: Laura E. Dee et al, Quantifying disturbance effects on ecosystem services in a changing climate, Nature Ecology & Evolution (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41559-024-02626-y Provided by ...

Her area of expertise is “disturbance” ecology — the effects of fires, hurricanes, snowstorms, and land development on coastal ecosystems. Those systems contain powerful mechanisms for natural carbon ...