disturbance events
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disturbance
noun[C or U]
uk/dɪˈstɜː.bəns/us/dɪˈstɝː.bəns/
something that interrupts someone or makes someone ...
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event
noun[C]
uk/ɪˈvent/us/ɪˈvent/
anything that happens, especially something important ...
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A milddisturbanceevent, the treefall of a single or several trees, would favour the suppressed-sapling strategy.
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These factors set the 'starting point' after thedisturbanceevent.
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The duration of disturbance events in human-dominated landscapes is longer, the average gap size is increasing, and the return interval of disturbance is decreasing.
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They thus show an obvious dependence on disturbance events.
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The second reason could be that the uninhabited locations have a high intensity or frequency of wave disturbance events.
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Almost 25% of all gaps suffered from repeated disturbance events that brought about larger gap sizes.
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We further compared the number of gaps and the contribution to total gap area as if we had not considered repeated disturbance events.
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The same is valid for the inclusion of repeated disturbance events.
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Clearly, historical contingencies and differences between disturbance events can result in heterogeneous responses of species.
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Bamboo spread is likely to be a function of complex disturbance events such as high flows and hurricanes.
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Nonetheless, generalizations about the effects of disturbance are elusive, and few studies consider long-term responses of a single population or community to multiple large-scale disturbance events.
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Evidence also suggests that sound trees are stable, which may reduce overall rates of tree mortality between major disturbance events and, thereby, contribute to low rates of background canopy-gap formation.
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Using maximum effective fetch instead of effective fetch in the direction of prevailing winds captures the largest potential wind and wave disturbance events in a site.
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The success of a wide range of species from all taxonomic groups is closely tied to natural disturbance events such as fire, flooding, and windstorm.
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However, most areas with significant natural sea bottom disturbance events are in relatively shallow water.
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Competition experiments showed that competitive dominants excluded competitively inferior species between disturbance events.
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This plant genus is peculiar in that it has developed a range of specific adaptations to resist summer drought and frequent disturbance events, such as fire and grazing.
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