The boreal region is a northern, circumpolar forest belt covering 11% of the globe's
terrestrial surface (Bonan and Shugart, 1989). It includes a spectrum of forest vegetation …

In 1989, when the idea of this workshop first seeded in our minds, our objective was to build
bridges between researchers mainly from North America and northern Eurasia working in …

This paper provides an overview of the following topics: disturbances, heterogeneity, and
biodiversity; changing perceptions of forest disturbances; natural disturbance dynamics-a …

Boreal forests form Earth's largest terrestrial biome. They are rich in ecosystem and
landscape diversity, though characterized by relatively few plant species, as compared to …

Major patterns of plant communities and species distribution are induced by various
disturbance regimes operating at different spatial and temporal scales (Loucks 1970; White …

The appearance of the natural disturbance dynamics paradigm in forest ecology has
contributed to a more diversified view of forest dynamics. Disturbances in forests range from …

This special issue includes 27 papers which discuss forest disturbance and successional
processes, population dynamics of forest-dwelling species and the interaction between …

Even as ecologists documented the importance of disturbance and non-equilibrium in
vegetation dynamics, they began to ask whether the dramatic changes at the local, patch …

Stretching in two broad transcontinental bands across Eurasia and North America, the
global boreal zone covers approximately 12 million square kilometres, two-thirds in Russia …

Palaeoecological methods were used to study forest dynamics at stand and landscape
scales in the Pechoro-Ilych Zapovednik in the Komi Republic in Russia. A survey of charcoal …