ecological disturbance: References & Edit History
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General considerations of ecological disturbance include Edward A. Johnson, Fire and Vegetation Dynamics: Studies from the North American Boreal Forest (1996); and S.T.A. Pickett and P.S. White, (eds.) The Ecology of Natural Disturbance and Patch Dynamics (2004). More-detailed treatments can be found in R.T. Paine and Simon A. Levin, Intertidal Landscapes: Disturbance and the Dynamics of Pattern (1981); Monica G. Turner et al., “Fires, Hurricanes, and Volcanoes: Comparing Large Disturbances,” BioScience, 47(11):758–768 (December 1997); Monica G. Turner and Virginia H. Dale, “Comparing Large, Infrequent Disturbances: What Have We Learned?” Ecosystems, 1:493–496 (August 1998); Monica G. Turner et al., Landscape Ecology in Theory and Practice: Pattern and Process (2007); W.P. Sousa, “Natural Disturbance and the Dynamics of Marine Benthic Communities,” in Mark D. Bertness, Steven D. Gaines, and Mark E. Hay (eds.), Marine Community Ecology (2001), pp. 85–130; and Monica G. Turner, “Disturbance and Landscape Dynamics in a Changing World,” Ecology, 91(10):2833–49 (October 2010).
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| Modified link of Web site: National Centre for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - Disturbance theory for ecosystem ecologists: A primer. | Jun 06, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Centre for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - Disturbance theory for ecosystem ecologists: A primer. | Dec 13, 2018 | ||
| New bibliography added. | Aug 30, 2012 | ||
| New article added. | Aug 30, 2012 |