Responses of insect pests, pathogens, and invasive plant species to climate change in the forests of northeastern North America: what can we predict?

JS Dukes, J Pontius, D Orwig… - Canadian journal of …, 2009 - cdnsciencepub.com
Climate models project that by 2100, the northeastern US and eastern Canada will warm by
approximately 3–5° C, with increased winter precipitation. These changes will affect trees …

Ecosystem management based on natural disturbances: hierarchical context and non‐equilibrium paradigm

AS Mori - Journal of Applied Ecology, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Maintenance of ecological integrity and biodiversity must be based on well‐grounded
principles of disturbance ecology. However, non‐equilibrium aspects of ecosystems, such …

Intermediate wind disturbance in an old-growth beech-fir forest in southeastern Slovenia

TA Nagel, J Diaci - Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 2006 - cdnsciencepub.com
Les auteurs ont étudié l'effet immédiat de deux tempêtes consécutives survenues en 1983 et
2004 dans une forêt ancienne de Fagus sylvatica L. Abies alba Mill. dans les Alpes …

The ecology of disturbance interactions

PJ Burton, A Jentsch, LR Walker - BioScience, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Global change has been accompanied by recent increases in the frequency and intensity of
various ecological disturbances (eg, fires, floods, cyclones), both natural and anthropogenic …

The effect of fungal pathogens on the water and carbon economy of trees: implications for drought-induced mortality

J Oliva, J Stenlid, J Martinez-Vilalta - New Phytologist, 2014 - JSTOR
Drought-induced forest mortality is emerging as a widespread phenomenon with potentially
large implications for forest function and dynamics (Allen et al., 2010; Anderegg et al., 2012; …

The legacy of episodic climatic events in sha** temperate, broadleaf forests

N Pederson, JM Dyer, RW McEwan… - Ecological …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
In humid, broadleaf‐dominated forests where gap dynamics and partial canopy mortality
appears to dominate the disturbance regime at local scales, paleoecological evidence …

Disturbances in deciduous temperate forest ecosystems of the northern hemisphere: their effects on both recent and future forest development

A Fischer, P Marshall, A Camp - Biodiversity and conservation, 2013 - Springer
Disturbances in forests can kill mature trees, but also create the conditions necessary for the
establishment of new tree cohorts and create micro-habitats for new plant and animal …

The natural disturbance regime in forests of the Dinaric Mountains: A synthesis of evidence

TA Nagel, S Mikac, M Dolinar, M Klopcic… - Forest Ecology and …, 2017 - Elsevier
Quantitative descriptions of natural disturbance regimes are lacking for temperate forest
regions in Europe, primarily because a long history of intensive land-use has been the …

Recovering subtidal forests in human‐dominated landscapes

D Gorman, SD Connell - Journal of Applied Ecology, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Policy initiatives that seek to recover lost habitats require the capacity to anticipate and
suppress the mechanisms that drive loss. The replacement of forested landscapes by simple …

Colonization and extinction patterns of wood‐decaying fungi in a boreal old‐growth Picea abies forest

MT Jönsson, M Edman, BG Jonsson - Journal of Ecology, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Summary 1 Wood‐decaying fungi are ubiquitous and functionally important organisms
within forest ecosystems world‐wide, but remarkably little is known of their population …