The Ecology of Disturbance Interactions

Climate change, ecosystems and abrupt change: science priorities

(2020) Monica G. Turner et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Interaction exposure effects of multiple disturbances: plant population resilience to ungulate grazing is reduced by creation of canopy gaps

(2020) Yushin Shinoda et al.   Scientific Reports

Grazing and aridity reduce perennial grass abundance in semi-arid rangelands – Insights from a trait-based dynamic vegetation model

(2019) Mirjam Pfeiffer et al.   ECOLOGICAL MODELLING

A theory of pulse dynamics and disturbance in ecology

(2019) Anke Jentsch et al.   ECOLOGY

Dead forests burning: the influence of beetle outbreaks on fire severity and legacy structure in sub‐boreal forests

(2019) Anna C. Talucci et al.   Ecosphere

Spatial and temporal patterns of mass bleaching of corals in the Anthropocene

(2018) Terry P. Hughes et al.   SCIENCE

The 2015 landslide and tsunami in Taan Fiord, Alaska

(2018) Bretwood Higman et al.   Scientific Reports

Cascading regime shifts within and across scales

(2018) Juan C. Rocha et al.   SCIENCE

Investigation of root reinforcement decay after a forest fire in a Scots pine ( Pinus sylvestris ) protection forest

(2017) Chiara Vergani et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Characterizing interactions between fire and other disturbances and their impacts on tree mortality in western U.S. Forests

(2017) Jeffrey M. Kane et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

A review and classification of interactions between forest disturbance from wind and fire

(2017) Jeffery B. Cannon et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Forest disturbances under climate change

(2017) Rupert Seidl et al.   Nature Climate Change

Patch mosaic cyclic succession associated with the growth and senescence of an alpine shrub

(2016) Danielle C. McPhail et al.   AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Relative importance of climate and mountain pine beetle outbreaks on the occurrence of large wildfires in the western USA

(2016) Nathan Mietkiewicz et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Burn me twice, shame on who? Interactions between successive forest fires across a temperate mountain region

(2016) Brian J. Harvey et al.   ECOLOGY

Do insect outbreaks reduce the severity of subsequent forest fires?

(2016) Garrett W Meigs et al.   Environmental Research Letters

The effect of gap openings on soil reinforcement in two conifer stands in northern Italy

(2016) G.B. Bischetti et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Avoiding ecosystem collapse in managed forest ecosystems

(2016) David Lindenmayer et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Changing disturbance regimes, ecological memory, and forest resilience

(2016) Jill F Johnstone et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Integrating theory into disturbance interaction experiments to better inform ecosystem management

(2016) Claire N. Foster et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Flammability as an ecological and evolutionary driver

(2016) Juli G. Pausas et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Biodiversity and productivity entwined

(2016) Kevin Gross   NATURE

Spatial variability in tree regeneration after wildfire delays and dampens future bark beetle outbreaks

(2016) Rupert Seidl et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Aftermath of Mountain Pine Beetle Outbreak in British Columbia: Stand Dynamics, Management Response and Ecosystem Resilience

(2016) Amalesh Dhar et al.   Forests

Cascading Effects of Canopy Opening and Debris Deposition from a Large-Scale Hurricane Experiment in a Tropical Rain Forest

(2015) Aaron B. Shiels et al.   BIOSCIENCE

A Framework to Assess Biogeochemical Response to Ecosystem Disturbance Using Nutrient Partitioning Ratios

(2015) J. Marty Kranabetter et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Is successional research nearing its climax? New approaches for understanding dynamic communities

(2015) Scott J. Meiners et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Net effects of multiple stressors in freshwater ecosystems: a meta-analysis

(2015) Michelle C. Jackson et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Synergistic effects of fire and elephants on arboreal animals in an African savanna

(2015) Robert M. Pringle et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Desert tortoise use of burned habitat in the Eastern Mojave desert

(2015) K. Kristina Drake et al.   JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT

The global spectrum of plant form and function

(2015) Sandra Díaz et al.   NATURE

Area burned in the western United States is unaffected by recent mountain pine beetle outbreaks

(2015) Sarah J. Hart et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Species fluctuations sustained by a cyclic succession at the edge of chaos

(2015) Elisa Benincà et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Outbreak of Phoracantha semipunctata in Response to Severe Drought in a Mediterranean Eucalyptus Forest

(2015) Stephen Seaton et al.   Forests

Disturbance interactions: characterization, prediction, and the potential for cascading effects

(2015) B. Buma   Ecosphere

Climate change triggers effects of fungal pathogens and insect herbivores on litter decomposition

(2014) Olaf Butenschoen et al.   ACTA OECOLOGICA-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

A succession of theories: purging redundancy from disturbance theory

(2014) Stephanie A. Pulsford et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Fire severity and tree regeneration following bark beetle outbreaks: the role of outbreak stage and burning conditions

(2014) Brian J. Harvey et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Biological legacies: Direct early ecosystem recovery and food web reorganization after a volcanic eruption in Alaska

(2014) Lawrence R. Walker et al.   ECOSCIENCE

Disturbances, Their Interactions, and Cumulative Effects on Carbon and Charcoal Stocks in a Forested Ecosystem

(2014) Brian Buma et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

The influence of experimental wind disturbance on forest fuels and fire characteristics

(2014) Jeffery B. Cannon et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Wildfire’s resistance to control in mountain pine beetle-attacked lodgepole pine forests

(2014) Wesley G. Page et al.   FORESTRY CHRONICLE

Ecological mitigation of hillslope instability: ten key issues facing researchers and practitioners

(2014) Alexia Stokes et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Recent mountain pine beetle outbreaks, wildfire severity, and postfire tree regeneration in the US Northern Rockies

(2014) Brian J. Harvey et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Reviewing and visualizing the interactions of natural hazards

(2014) Joel C. Gill et al.   REVIEWS OF GEOPHYSICS

Plant succession as an integrator of contrasting ecological time scales

(2014) Lawrence R. Walker et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Modeling Wildfire Spread in Mountain Pine Beetle-Affected Forest Stands, British Columbia, Canada

(2014) Daniel D.B. Perrakis et al.   Fire Ecology

The interacting ecological effects of large-scale disturbances and salvage logging on montane spruce forest regeneration in the western European Alps

(2013) Alessandra Bottero et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

An experimental test of the relationship between small scale topography and seedling establishment in primary succession

(2013) Bryndís Marteinsdóttir et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

Heathlands confronting global change: drivers of biodiversity loss from past to future scenarios

(2012) Jaime Fagúndez   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Fire-injured ponderosa pine provide a pulsed resource for bark beetles

(2012) Ryan S. Davis et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

Effects of bark beetle-caused tree mortality on wildfire

(2012) Jeffrey A. Hicke et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Wind as a natural disturbance agent in forests: a synthesis

(2012) S. J. Mitchell   FORESTRY

Effect of forest harvesting on hydrogeomorphic processes in steep terrain of central Japan

(2012) Fumitoshi Imaizumi et al.   GEOMORPHOLOGY

Introduced annual grass increases regional fire activity across the arid western USA (1980-2009)

(2012) Jennifer K. Balch et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

High-Latitude Dust Over the North Atlantic: Inputs from Icelandic Proglacial Dust Storms

(2012) J. M. Prospero et al.   SCIENCE

Increased rainfall variability reduces biomass and forage quality of temperate grassland largely independent of mowing frequency

(2011) Julia Walter et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Wildfire provides refuge from local extinction but is an unlikely driver of outbreaks by mountain pine beetle

(2011) Erinn N. Powell et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Effects of Armillaria root disease on the growth of Picea mariana trees in the boreal plains of central Canada

(2011) A.R. Westwood et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Drought effects on damage by forest insects and pathogens: a meta-analysis

(2011) Hervé Jactel et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Fire Injury Reduces Inducible Defenses of Lodgepole Pine against Mountain Pine Beetle

(2011) Erinn N. Powell et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL ECOLOGY

Reconstruction of a 1,910-y-long locust series reveals consistent associations with climate fluctuations in China

(2011) H. Tian et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Cross-system comparisons elucidate disturbance complexities and generalities

(2011) Debra P. C. Peters et al.   Ecosphere

Density and distribution of advance regeneration in mountain pine beetle killed lodgepole pine stands of the Montane Spruce zone of southern British Columbia

(2010) Gordon D. Nigh et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

Do mountain pine beetle outbreaks change the probability of active crown fire in lodgepole pine forests?

(2010) Martin Simard et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Winter climate change: a critical factor for temperate vegetation performance

(2010) Juergen Kreyling   ECOLOGY

Disturbance and landscape dynamics in a changing world1

(2010) Monica G. Turner   ECOLOGY

Improved probability of detection of ecological "surprises"

(2010) D. B. Lindenmayer et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Striving for Sustainability and Resilience in the Face of Unprecedented Change: The Case of the Mountain Pine Beetle Outbreak in British Columbia

(2010) Philip J. Burton   Sustainability

Landsliding and Its Multiscale Influence on Mountainscapes

(2009) Carla Restrepo et al.   BIOSCIENCE

The ecology of climate change and infectious diseases

(2009) Kevin D. Lafferty   ECOLOGY

Turning back from the brink: Detecting an impending regime shift in time to avert it

(2009) Reinette Biggs et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Effects of logging on fire regimes in moist forests

(2009) David B. Lindenmayer et al.   Conservation Letters

Impacts of wind disturbance on fragmented tropical forests: A review and synthesis

(2008) WILLIAM F. LAURANCE et al.   AUSTRAL ECOLOGY

Cross-scale Drivers of Natural Disturbances Prone to Anthropogenic Amplification: The Dynamics of Bark Beetle Eruptions

(2008) Kenneth F. Raffa et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Pulse-Driven Loss of Top-Down Control: The Critical-Rate Hypothesis

(2008) Marten Scheffer et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Bark beetles, fuels, fires and implications for forest management in the Intermountain West

(2007) Michael J. Jenkins et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT