We tested the hypothesis that disruption of the natural disturbance regime can facilitate invasion of habitats, resulting in the exclusion of native species.
The results show that the innovation system is already experiencing the socio-technical dynamics of regime disruption and competing designs.
Intense livestock grazing, especially by huge herds of sheep, was the initial cause of the frequent fire regime disruption in many places.
Although fuel/forest changes since the surface fire regime disruption 100-150 years ago is striking, the recent very large, very high intensity/severity fires in pine-dominant and mixed conifer forests can not be attributed solely or even primarily to these changes.
The first major disruption in the regime came in 1972, when the United States Supreme Court, in Furman v. Georgia, effectively struck down every existing death penalty statute across the country.
Shrubs have expanded not only in Janos, but throughout the Chihuahuan Desert grassland since the late 1800's, a consequence of livestock grazing and seed dispersal, the disruption of fire regimes, and drought conditions [42], [43], [44], [45].
If the border were closed, the economic disruption would destabilise the regime.
Above all, the election of Donald J Trump has the feel of an epochal event, of a geopolitical disruption, of planet-wide regime change.
Russian ire with Mr Saakashvili and his Westernising policies have led to increases in the price of gas and the shutting-off of other energy supplies, border closures, disruption to the visa regime and a vindictive economic embargo.
The Court finds that vacatur of the rule would merely maintain the status quo and cause far less disruption than vacating the regime after it has gone into effect.
