Disturbance and distributions: avoiding exclusion in a warming world
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Disturbance and distributions: avoiding exclusion in a warming world
I highlight how disturbance determines species distributions and the implications for conservation practice. In particular, I describe opportunities to mitigate some of the threats to species resulting from climate change. Ecological theory shows that disturbance processes can often slow or prevent the exclusion of species by competitors and that different disturbance regimes result in differen...
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عنوان ژورنال: Ecology and Society
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1708-3087
DOI: 10.5751/es-07920-210110