Are large, infrequent disturbances qualitatively different from small, frequent disturbances?

Ecosystems

Volumn 1, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 524-534

  Romme, William H ^a   Everham, Edwin H ^b   Frelich, Lee E ^c   Moritz, Max A ^d   Sparks, Richard E ^e  

^a FORT LEWIS COLLEGE   (United States)

^b FLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Disturbance impact; Disturbance size; Extreme ecological events; Fire in boreal forests; Fire in temperate forests; Floods in floodplain ecosystems; Hurricanes in tropical forests; Large, infrequent disturbances; Thresholds; Windstorms in temperate forests

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000020858     PISSN: 14329840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s100219900048     Document Type: Article

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