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Disturbance Ecology
Dr. Mark McGinleySpecial Topics in Ecology and
BiodiversityISB, UM 2010
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How Many Books in the Library?
• How would you try to figure out how many books in the library?– Counting is the boring way– Are there other approaches we could use to
estimate the number of books
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Is the Library Full?
• If the library is full then it is relatively easy to determine the number of books in the library.
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If the library is full
– Need to know• Total length of book shelves• Mean width of book
# books = total length of book shelves/mean book width
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What If The Library is Not Full?
• Then we need to know a different approach,– We need to know something about the rate at
which books are added and lost from the library
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How Does This Relate To Ecology?
Different approaches to understanding causes of patterns of biodiversity- are communities full of species or are communities not full of species.
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Equilibrium Approach
• If communities are full of species, then we can understand biodiversity by understanding the factors that limit the number of species in a community– Competition – If competition determines community structure
then the maximum number of species that can be found in a community is equal to the number of niches.
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Non-equilibrium Approach
• Sometimes communities are not full because something stops competitive exclusion from occurring– Predation– Disturbance
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Disturbance
• “Disturbance” is a word that has a particular meaning in regular usage
– Typically a “disturbance” is something that disrupts “normal”
• Yelling and screaming in the library• Being told to “shush” at a football game
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Disturbance
• Ecologically, disturbance has been defined in different ways by different people.– Important to recognize this and always be
aware of which definition people are using
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Disturbance
• Pickett and White– A disturbance is any relatively discrete event
in time that disrupts population, community, and ecosystem structure
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Fire
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Fire
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Landslides
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Hurricanes
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Hurricanes- Salt Water Damage
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Tsunami
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Floods
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Not Disturbance-Drought
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Disturbance
• Disturbances are regular and predictable events in many communities
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Disturbance vs Disaster
• Disturbances occur frequently enough that natural selection can occur– Thus, many species are “adapted” to
disturbances
• Disasters occur so rarely natural selection has not occurred– Species are not adapted to disasters.
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Disturbance Regime
• Frequency• Location• Magnitude• Intensity• Synergisms
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Disturbance Regime- Fire
• Intensity– Crown fire vs. ground fire
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Importance of Disturbance
• Evolutionary– Organisms should have adaptations that allow
them to survive or recover from disturbances
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Serotinous Cones
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Importance of Disturbance
• Ecological– Disturbance may effect species diversity in a
community– First person to think about this was Darwin
• He recognized more species of grasses growing in fields that had been moved for hay than in fields that were unmowed.
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Competition Between Grasses
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Connell’s Intermediate Disturbance Hypothesis