Regeneration of dominant species was analyzed in the context of disturbance history and species-specific disturbance response strategies.
Our results also suggest that a comprehensive ecosystem management plan should consider the cumulative and hierarchical context of disturbance regimes to prevent reductions in ecological variability and ecosystem resilience, particularly in areas that are more sensitive to large disturbances.
In the context of increasing disturbances on tropical forests, the lower capacity of disturbed forests to recover is not good news in our fight against climate change.
FABP4 could be considered to be a new biomarker for HF, particularly in the context of metabolic disturbances.
The role of ecological disturbances in Davies et al.'s theory is important but mostly interpreted through their effects on resource availability because in the context of plants, disturbances are likely to introduce additional resources into the community and/or lead to a decline in the global resource uptake due to mortality or debilitation of the resident species.
Two additional concerns complicate management and restoration in the context of ecological disturbance.
It is highly desirable, therefore, that a MEN be structurally controllable in the context of structural disturbance rejection.
In the context of these strong disturbances, reliable data on the genetic structure of affected populations could be critical in order to propose management and conservation strategies for these species.
Jactel and colleagues (2012), for instance, used multicriteria analysis techniques to integrate multiple risk factors in the context of managing natural disturbances and invasive species in forest ecosystems.
By contrast, we here emphasize that the frequent exceptions to these predictions are no less interesting or important, especially in the context of human-induced disturbances of natural habitats.
