To prepare the class for a discussion of disturbance and the intermediate disturbance hypothesis you have data from either of 2 papers. One is Wayne Sousa's 1979 study called "Disturbance in marine ...

These results, recently published in Science, provide better understanding of the dynamics of biodiversity in tropical rain forests. The many species which make up tropical rain forest tree ...

Hurricanes, wildfires and influxes of pollutants create disturbances that can put ecological systems under extreme stress. Ecologists had believed that at times like these, competition between species ...

In this study, Wayne Sousa tested the intermediate disturbance hypothesis proposed by Connell (1978). In the 70's and 80's ecologists hotly debated factors explaining high diversity in tropical ...