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The biodiversity of landscapes may be highest when there is an intermediate level of disturbance.
These results indicate that partial harvest does represent an intermediate level of disturbance, as direct and indirect harvest effects were reduced, as was Sphagnum death.
For the Warren Region, prescribed burning at an intermediate level of disturbance and incorporating variability in interval length is recommended to achieve the dual objectives of wildfire mitigation and biodiversity conservation.
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Although intermediate levels of disturbance frequency and extent increased the probability of species coexistence, the spatial pattern of disturbance played an unexpectedly important role in the tradeoff between dispersal and fecundity.
At intermediate levels of disturbance, the forest displays the broadest array of developmental pathways, highest entropy as measured by Shannon's index of diversity, and critical slowing near steady states.
In fact, at intermediate levels of disturbance, diversity is maximized because both competitive K-selected and opportunistic R-selected species can coexist (Dial and Roughgarden 1988; Kassen et al. 2004).
While it is predicted that species richness peaks at intermediate levels of disturbances and enrichment, evenness decreases with increasing disturbances and reducing enrichment/pollutant concentrations.
We also found that community specialization was maximized at an intermediate level of landscape disturbance.
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