Through evaluation we have discovered that some students develop the misconception that plant community changes are unpredictable due to the randomness of the environment. It is important to explain ...

In this lab, students play a board game designed to introduce the concepts of disturbance dynamics and succession in plant communities. Students explore the dynamics of an imaginary ecosystem through ...

We used data from a 15-year experiment in a C₄-dominated grassland to address the effects of community structure (i.e., plant species richness, dominance) and disturbance on invasibility, as measured ...

Contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Disturbance and succession / Edward A. Johnson and Kiyoko Miyanishi -- Introduction -- Disturbance as the nemesis of succession -- The chronosequence ...

The relative impacts of nutrient availability, disturbance intensity, and interspecific competition on species distribution and growth were studied by applying five levels of nutrients and five ...