Understanding the relationship between disturbance regimes and species diversity has
been of central interest to ecologists for decades. For example, the intermediate disturbance …

A leading idea about how disturbances and other environmental fluctuations affect species
diversity is the intermediate disturbance hypothesis (IDH). The IDH states that diversity of …

An influential ecological theory, the intermediate disturbance hypothesis (IDH), predicts that
intermediate levels of disturbance will maximize species diversity. Empirical studies …

Two major foci of ecological research involve reciprocal views of the relationship between
biodiversity and disturbance: disturbance determines community diversity or diversity …

Disturbance is often cited as one of the main factors determining patterns of species
diversity. Several models have predicted qualitatively that species richness should be …

Empirical evidence suggests that disturbance has profound effects on the species diversity
of aquatic and terrestrial assemblages. Conceptual ecological theories, such as the …

Coexistence mechanisms that require environmental variation to operate contribute
importantly to the maintenance of biodiversity. One famous hypothesis of diversity …

Hypotheses that relate disturbance to the production and maintenance of species diversity
are reviewed. The hypotheses have been classified traditionally by the effect of the …

The contemporary literature accepts that disturbance strongly influences patterns of species
diversity, and that the relationship is peaked, with a maximum at intermediate levels of …

Empirical knowledge of diversity–stability relationships is mostly based on the analysis of
temporal variability. Variability, however, often depends on external factors that act as …