The Search for Generality in Studies of Disturbance and Ecosystem Dynamics

By Peter White, Anke Jentsch. 2001

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

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The challenge of plant regeneration after fire in the Mediterranean Basin: scientific gaps in our knowledge on plant strategies and evolution of traits (2007, background): “…Basin, or (3) an indication of functional redundancy in resprouting ability as the dominant evolutionary process of ecosystem response to fire and grazing disturbance in ensuring the persistence of ecosystem function, such as re-accumulation of green biomass after fire (White and Jentsch 2001)?”
Ecological and Evolutionary Consequences of Biological Invasion and Habitat Fragmentation (2005, background): “Habitat fragmentation can alter disturbance frequency (White and Jentsch 2001) and thus potentially has strong ecosystem effects.”
Response of aquatic plants to abiotic factors: a review (2011, background): “Floods are considered as disturbances, i.e. discrete and unpredictable events that cause partial or total destruction of living communities (White and Jentsch 2001; Grime 2002).”
Beyond gradual warming: extreme weather events alter flower phenology of European grassland and heath species (2009, methodology): “In our approach, we distinguish a discrete event from a continuous process by its abruptness, no matter whether the event is recurrent, advanced, expected or normal ( White & Jentsch, 2001 ).”
Natural disturbance impacts on ecosystem services and biodiversity in temperate and boreal forests (2015, unknown): “This underlines the potential for a process-based analysis of disturbance regimes in synthesizing knowledge from individual observations to reach general patterns and principles (Turner et al., 1993; White & Jentsch, 2001; Miller et al., 2011; Seidl et al., 2011a).”
Ground spider assemblages as indicators for habitat structure in inland sand ecosystems (2010, background): “Furthermore, disturbance (drifting sand, grazing, and fire), which is undoubtedly the most important driver of habitat dynamics and openness in sand ecosystems, has decreased (White and Jentsch 2001; Jentsch et al. 2002).”
A new generation of climate‐change experiments: events, not trends (2007, background): “For ecological investigations, we argue that a discrete event is distinguished from a continuous process by its abruptness, no matter whether the event is recurrent, expected, or normal (White and Jentsch 2001).”
Assessing the effects of land-use change on plant traits, communities and ecosystem functioning in grasslands: a standardized methodology and lessons from an application to 11 European sites. (2007, methodology): “The parameterization of disturbance regimes across the VISTA sites and land-use types builds on disturbance descriptors developed by White and Pickett (1985), Kleyer (1999), and White and Jentsch (2001).”
Consistent influence of tree diameter and species on damage in nine eastern North America tornado blowdowns (2007, background): “…of a particular disturbance in a particular stand or landscape contributes to more informed decision-making (Savill, 1983; Nowacki and Kramer, 1998; Gardiner and Quine, 2000), as well as greater understanding of the influence of disturbances on forest dynamics (White and Jentsch, 2001).”
Arthropod biodiversity after forest fires: winners and losers in the winter fire regime of the southern Alps (2004, background): “Wermelinger et al. 1995, Granstro ¨ m 1996, Goldammer et al. 1997, Barbalat 1998, Kirby and Watkins 1998, Duelli and Obrist 1999, Trabaud 2000, Bengtsson et al. 2000, Floren and Linsenmair 2001, White and Jentsch 2001, Wohlgemuth et al. 2002).”
Effects of climate extremes on the terrestrial carbon cycle: concepts, processes and potential future impacts (2015, methodology): “Both the public media and the scientific community have recognized the widespread consequences of climate extremes such as the European heat wave in 2003 (Ciais et al., 2005; Reichstein et al., 2007; Bastos et al., 2013a), the heat wave and associated forest fires in Greece in 2007 (Founda &…”
Implications of current ecological thinking for biodiversity conservation: A review of the salient issues (2005, background): “There is increasing recognition that disturbance (both natural and human induced) is the driver of patch dynamics (Pickett and White 1985, White and Jentsch 2001).”