"ecosystem disruption" is absolutely a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to refer to any changes to an ecosystem that disrupts the normal functioning of its components. For example, "The introduction of an invasive species caused significant ecosystem disruption, leading to a decrease in the local bird population."
Such ecosystem disruption consists of more severe, complex, and system-level consequences that are hard to model and predict (Lunshof 2015).
If there is so little empirical evidence for coexistence or association of megafauna with humans, then support for an HDE through overhunting and ecosystem disruption is seriously compromised.
The recently published methodology termed the Coastal Hazard Wheel (CHW) is designed for local, regional and national hazard screening in areas with limited data availability, and covers the hazards of ecosystem disruption, gradual inundation, salt water intrusion, erosion and flooding.
Abrupt ecosystem disruption is evident on the Northern Channel Islands at the Ållerød Younger Dryas boundary with the onset of biomass burning and resulting mass sediment wasting of the landscape.
Our evaluation of the ecotoxicological status showed high coincidences with the ecological status, established according to the WFD, especially when ecosystem disruption due to numerous stressors (presence of metals and organic pollution) was observed.
Insecticides continue to be used in Bt cotton in India, and as in China productivity effects of Bt cotton and pesticide use likely depend on the action of natural control agents with the profitability of damage control measures increasing with the severity of ecosystem disruption due to insecticides [47].
In 2009 American geoarchaeologist Douglas Kennett of the University of Oregon at Eugene with seven coauthors from several universities published persuasive evidence linking a cosmic impact to megafaunal extinctions and abrupt ecosystem disruptions at the Younger Dryas boundary about 12,900 years ago, a time when Earth was emerging from the last glacial period.
A major advantage in using disease outbreaks as bioindicators of even subtle ecosystem disruptions is that the health of human populations is generally subject to more widespread and accurate surveillance than is ecosystem health (Spiegel and Yassi 1997).
We argue that many subtle ecosystem disruptions are often identified only as a result of detailed epidemiologic investigations after an anomalous increase in human disease incidence detected by routine surveillance mechanisms.
By identifying ecosystem disruptions that affect human health using this outbreak-based approach, appropriate strategies for intervention and remediation can be introduced at an earlier stage than would be possible based solely on environmental monitoring.
We live in an era of emerging and reemerging infectious disease attributable to ecosystem disruptions (Weinhold 2004), a phase that has been termed the third epidemiologic transition (Barrett et al. 1998; McMichael 1993).
