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

Interactions between bacteria and protists are essential to the ecosystem ecology of fens. Until now, however, there has been almost no information on how restoration procedures in carbonate fens ...

Detecting and understanding disturbance is a challenge in ecology that has grown more critical with global environmental change and the emergence of research on social–ecological systems. We identify ...

The Ecological Society of America (ESA) presents a roundup of seven research articles recently published across its esteemed journals. Widely recognized for fostering innovation and advancing ...

A ten-year-long examination of macroinvertebrate community recovery was conducted following a catastrophic spill of highly alkaline red sludge (pH >13) into lowland streams. T1: The section of the ...

For decades, scientists believed cool temperate rainforests were fragile ecosystems easily damaged by disturbances like fires or logging. But new research from the University of Melbourne challenges ...

Extreme events wipe out entire forests, dramatically eliminating complex ecosystems as well as local communities. Researchers have become quite familiar with such attention-grabbing events over the ...

Proceedings of GUTSHOP '92 held in Nov. 1992, at Rosario Resort, San Juan Islands, Wash. Contents Adaptive variability and mode choice in foraging fishes / Gene S. Helfman -- Trophic polymorphisms, ...

A research team from Shanghai Ocean University has developed an ecological approach to water treatment that combines ...

In a recent article published in the journal Nature, researchers examined the long-term ecological effects of seabed mining by analyzing a historic mining test site from 1979. The rapid increase in ...