Extinction Risk in Successional Landscapes Subject to Catastrophic Disturbances
We explore the thesis that stochasticity in successional-disturbance systems can be an agent of species extinction. The analysis uses a simple model of patch dynamics for seral stages in an idealized landscape; each seral stage is assumed to support a specialist biota. The landscape as a whole is ch...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Resilience Alliance
2002-12-01
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| Series: | Ecology and Society |
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| Online Access: | http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol6/iss2/art2/ |