The effects of disturbances such as flooding or increasing drought on an ecosystem have been difficult to predict in the past. Researchers have demonstrated the complexity with which even simple model ...

We studied changes in macrobenthic communities following the environmental clean-up of metal-polluted (cadmium, nickel, and cobalt) sediments in Foundry Cove, a small inlet within the Hudson River ...

Phenomena such as disturbance play a major role in structuring ecological systems by producing a spatiotemporal mosaic of patches at different successional states. The distribution of species within ...

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

For this pairs-share approach give half the class the Sousa data and the other half the Lubchenco data (that is, individual student are given - or have access to - one of the data sets). Students ...