Disturbance Patterns

Poster Number:  81 Presenter/Primary Author:  Rebecca Hewitt Fire is the primary landscape-scale disturbance in the boreal forest, and in the last half-century fires have increased in severity and extent in the boreal forest and tundra.

Poster Number:  65 Presenter/Primary Author:  Charles Driscoll The overall goal of the HBR-LTER program is to improve understanding of the response of Northern Forest ecosystems to natural and anthropogenic disturbances.

Poster Number:  59 Presenter/Primary Author:  Andrew Brooks Our ability to predict how communities of coral reef fishes will change in response to habitat alteration depends strongly on understanding the functional relationships of component species with li

Poster Number:  57 Presenter/Primary Author:  Audrey Barker Plo... Hurricanes profoundly impact New England forests every 50-100 years but few studies have evaluated mechanisms of long-term forest dynamics following major windthrows.

Poster Number:  32 Presenter/Primary Author:  John Campbell Ice storms are an important natural disturbance within forest ecosystems of the northeastern United States.  Current models suggest that the frequency and severity of ice storms may increase i