Increased disturbance will favor species with physiological and phenological traits that allow them to tolerate frequent disturbance.
We expect changes in the plant community will be greater and recovery to be slower with increased disturbance severity.
TITAN showed that 20 of the 39 genera found were robust bioindicators (based on purity and reliability values >0.95), sixteen of them being sensitive to increased disturbance.
Conversion of forest to 2G production will likely reduce the provision of a range of services due to increased disturbance associated with shortening of the management cycle.
The main value of such snow leopard data is for monitoring purposes - in light of current and expected development changes in the future, e.g. road construction projects, increased disturbance with tourism development, etc.
This seems to be accompanied with a poor response of the system, in terms of increased disturbance period and higher gain values, if compared to the results obtained by the HSDBC algorithm.
We show here that an increased disturbance mimicking an increased [1] predation risk consistently affected time-budget in ducks through decreasing preening, vigilance and foraging, and also resulted in a concomitant increase of sleep duration.
While some of our results (i.e., pup growth rates) suggest that increased disturbance may have a positive effect on the population, the negative impact of disturbance on reproductive rate could counterbalance this benefit and reduce population viability.
This, together with our results, suggests that endoliths will have an indirect negative effect on mussels through an increased disturbance effect, and that this effect will be greater for the invasive species.
We used soil heating to create a disturbance gradient, and hypothesized that increased disturbance would facilitate invasion, which was confirmed by the experiments.
We identify three main factors determining the effects of large herbivores on arthropod diversity: (i) unintentional predation and increased disturbance, (ii) decreases in total resource abundance for arthropods (biomass) and (iii) changes in plant diversity, vegetation structure and abiotic conditions.
