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 ...

Ecology and Society, Vol. 13, No. 1 (Jun 2008) (19 pages) ABSTRACT. Land-use change is one of the major factors affecting global environmental change and represents a primary human effect on natural ...

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 ...

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 ...