Disturbance Severity and Threshold Responses in the Boreal Forest

This essay discusses three potential models relating disturbance severity to post-disturbance stand composition in the boreal forest: (1) continuous, where changes in disturbance severity cause a proportional and continuous change in stand composition; (2) discontinuous, where a threshold disturbanc...

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Main Authors: Lee E. Frelich, Peter B. Reich
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Resilience Alliance 1998-12-01
Series:Ecology and Society
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Online Access:http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol2/iss2/art7/