Changing disturbance regimes, ecological memory, and forest resilience
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Changing disturbance regimes, ecological memory, and forest resilience
Ecological memory is central to how ecosystems respond to disturbance and is maintained by two types of legacies – information and material. Species lifehistory traits represent an adaptive response to disturbance and are an information legacy; in contrast, the abiotic and biotic structures (such as seeds or nutrients) produced by single disturbance events are material legacies. Disturbance cha...
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عنوان ژورنال: Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1540-9295,1540-9309
DOI: 10.1002/fee.1311