THE INTERMEDIATE DISTURBANCE HYPOTHESIS: PATCH DYNAMICS AND MECHANISMS OF SPECIES COEXISTENCE

By Stephen H. Roxburgh, Katriona Shea, J. Bastow Wilson. 2004

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Subfields: Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Disturbance, productivity, and species diversity: empiricism vs. logic in ecological theory (2014, background): “Model simulations demonstrate that these types of trade-offs can lead to stable coexistence under specific ranges of disturbance conditions (Roxburgh et al. 2004, Miller et al. 2011) Disturbances that affect the most abundant species more than rare species have long been known to promote…”
Whole‐community facilitation by beaver: ecosystem engineer increases waterbird diversity (2014, background): “At low productivity, species richness is limited by stress and resource availability, and resource amelioration should increase species richness (Roxburgh et al., 2004).”
Stacked Crop Rotations Exploit Weed-Weed Competition for Sustainable Weed Management (2014, background): “…mechanisms of coexistence (Miller and Chesson 2009) and the importance of considering multiple aspects of the disturbance regime such as intensity, frequency, and timing (i.e., seasonality) (Miller et al. 2011; Miller et al. 2012a,b; Roxburgh et al. 2004; Shea et al. 2004; Zhang and Shea 2012).”
The portfolio concept in ecology and evolution (2015, background): “…also explains the persistence of species-level diversity in biological communi- ties; spatial heterogeneity in disturbance (and thus asynchronous succession) is a mechanism involved in the intermediate disturbance hypothesis’s explanation of among-patch species coexistence (Roxburgh et al. 2004).”
Moving from pattern to process: Coexistence mechanisms under intermediate disturbance regimes (2004, methodology): “We have analysed a few empirical studies and models in greater detail and associated them with likely underlying mechanisms (Roxburgh et al. 2004), but the overwhelming number of studies did not provide information that would allow us, even tentatively, to identify the underlying coexistence…”
Island biogeography for an urbanizing world: how extinction and colonization may determine biological diversity in human-dominated landscapes (2005, background): “Determining the factors allowing for such coexistance has motivated ecologists for five decades (Roxburgh et al., 2004).”
Fire frequency and tree canopy structure influence plant species diversity in a forest-grassland ecotone (2007, background): “Although the IDH is well studied (Roxburgh et al. 2004), species diversity responses to fire frequency often do not follow predicted patterns.”
Chesson's coexistence theory (2018, background): “48, 52) may now have the dubious achievement of being even more universally confused than the concept of the “niche” was reputed to have been (Real and Levin 1991).”
DIFFERENCES IN SEED BIOLOGY OF ANNUAL PLANTS IN ARID LANDS: A KEY INGREDIENT OF THE STORAGE EFFECT (2005, background): “Moreover, any diversity maintenance mechanism relying on temporal variation must be a version of these two, a combination of them, or their combination with equilibrium mechanisms (Chesson 2000a, Roxburgh et al. 2004).”
Effects of disturbance on the diversity of hard-bottom macrobenthic communities on the coast of Chile (2005, background): “Although recent theoretical studies explored the processes underlying the IDH (e.g. Roxburgh et al. 2004, Shea et al. 2004) empirical support for this hypothesis is still scarce (Mackey & Currie 2001).”