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 ...

Disturbances, whether natural or anthropogenic, shape the composition, structure and functioning of ecological communities by altering resource availability, habitat configuration and species ...

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 ...

For this pairs-share approach give half the class the Sousa data and the other half the Lubchenco data (that is, individual student are given - or have access to - one of the data sets). Students ...