In this study, Wayne Sousa tested the intermediate disturbance hypothesis proposed by Connell (1978). In the 70's and 80's ecologists hotly debated factors explaining high diversity in tropical ...

A study conducted by IRD researchers in French Guiana as part of the SOFT programme (1) provides the first-ever validation, in this ecosystem, of the intermediate disturbance hypothesis.

The worldwide biodiversity crisis has intensified the need to better understand how biodiversity and human disturbance are related. The 'intermediate disturbance hypothesis' suggests that ...

A new study in PNAS is believed to be the first to show experimentally that competition could be a factor in regulating ecological communities regardless of the intensity or frequency of disturbance.

Hurricanes, wildfires and influxes of pollutants create disturbances that can put ecological systems under extreme stress. Ecologists had believed that at times like these, competition between ...

The findings contradict the intermediate disturbance hypothesis, which suggests that at high levels of disturbance, the species that survive will be those that are hardy under disturbed conditions.

CORSICANA, Texas (KWTX) - The Collins Intermediate School student involved in a “disturbance” that sent a Corsicana Independent School District assistant principal to the hospital has been ...

Both studies look at disturbance on a small or local scale and could also stimulate a discussion of the importance of scale in ecological thinking. You might choose to tell students about Connell's ...