Disturbance (ecology) - Wikipedia
In ecology, a disturbance is a temporary change in environmental conditions that causes a pronounced change in an ecosystem. Disturbances often act quickly and with great effect, to alter the physical structure or arrangement of biotic and abiotic elements.
Ecological disturbance | Causes, Effects & Management | Britannica
ecological disturbance, an event or force, of nonbiological or biological origin, that brings about mortality to organisms and changes in their spatial patterning in the ecosystems they inhabit. Disturbance plays a significant role in shaping the structure of individual populations and the character of whole ecosystems.
Disturbance Ecology - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics
Disturbance ecology is the study of the agents of disturbance, their causes, consequences, and their interactions with biological communities including human societies.
Disturbance Ecology - SpringerLink
The book provides a Central European perspective on disturbance ecology, and addresses important disturbance agents such as fire, wind, avalanches, tree diseases, insect defoliators, bark beetles and large herbivores in dedicated chapters.
Introduction: Defining and interpreting ecological disturbances
2019年10月30日 · In this introductory chapter, we provide an overview of disturbance ecology and the related topics of diversity and scale that are fundamental to understanding the dynamics of perturbed ecosystems.
Disturbance theory for ecosystem ecologists: A primer
2024年5月30日 · In light of new knowledge and conceptual advances across biological disciplines, we present four disturbance ecology concepts that are particularly relevant to ecosystem ecologists new to the field: (a) the directionality of ecosystem functional response to disturbance; (b) functional thresholds; (c) disturbance–succession interactions; and ...
9.4: Disturbance - Biology LibreTexts
Disturbance plays a significant role in shaping the structure of individual populations and the biodiversity of whole ecosystems. Minor disturbances include localized wind events, droughts, floods, small wildland fires, and disease outbreaks in plant and animal populations.
Disturbances and Disturbance Regimes | SpringerLink
2022年11月20日 · Here, contents and topics of disturbance ecology are presented, as well as definitions of disturbance events and disturbance regimes, descriptors of disturbance regimes, and methods for the quantitative characterization of disturbance species in landscape elements of Central Europe.
Ecological disturbance - Recovery, Dynamics, Effects | Britannica
Ecological disturbance - Recovery, Dynamics, Effects: The ecological impact of a disturbance is dependent on its intensity and frequency, on the spatial distribution (or the spatial pattern) and size of the disturbed patches, and on the scale (the spatial extent) of the disturbance.
In this paper, I revisit some of the central themes of disturbance ecology and argue that the knowledge established in the field of disturbance ecology continues to be relevant to ecosystem management, even with rapid changes to disturbance regimes and changing disturbance types in local ecosystems.