Windthrow is all too often looked at as an exceptional, catastrophic phenomenon rather than
a recurrent natural disturbance that falls within the spectrum of chronic and acute effects of …

Natural disturbances play a key role in ecosystem dynamics and are important factors for
sustainable forest ecosystem management. Quantitative models are frequently employed to …

In many parts of the world, forests are likely to face novel disturbance regimes as a result of
global change processes, and there is concern that the capacity of forest ecosystems to …

Abstract Ecosystems in the North American Arctic-Boreal Zone (ABZ) experience a diverse
set of disturbances associated with wildfire, permafrost dynamics, geomorphic processes …

The recovery of forests following stand-replacing disturbance is of widespread interest;
however, there is both a lack of definitional clarity for the term “recovery” and a dearth of …

Abrupt forest disturbances generating gaps> 0.001 km2 impact roughly 0.4–0.7 million km2
a− 1. Fire, windstorms, logging, and shifting cultivation are dominant disturbances; minor …

Populations near the warm edge of species ranges may be particularly sensitive to climate
change,,,, but lack of empirical data on responses to warming represents a key gap in …

Large tropical cyclones cause severe damage to major cities along the United States Gulf
Coast annually. A diverse collection of engineering and statistical models are currently used …

Understanding post-fire forest recovery is pivotal to the study of forest dynamics and global
carbon cycle. Field-based studies indicated a convex response of forest recovery rate to …

Within the next 50–100 years, the warming climate will have major effects on boreal and
northern hardwood forests situated near the prairie–forest border of central North America …