<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="6.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>5</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Waide, R.B.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Willig, M.R.</style></author></authors><secondary-authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Brokaw, N.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Crowl, T. A.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Lugo, A.E.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">McDowel, W.H.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Scatena, F.N.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Waide, R.B.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Willig, M.R.</style></author></secondary-authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Conceptual Overview Disturbance, Gradients, and Ecological Response</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">A Caribbean Forest Tapestry: The Multidimensional Nature of Disturbance and Response</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2012</style></year></dates><publisher><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">University Press</style></publisher><pub-location><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Oxford</style></pub-location><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Key  Points
	 •	 The abundance and distribution of organisms and the attendant ecosystem
processes vary across the landscape of the Luquillo Mountains in relation to
underlying patterns of spatial heterogeneity and gradients of environmental
factors.
	 •	 The ecosystems of the Luquillo Mountains are affected by frequent climate-
induced disturbances such as treefalls, landslides, tropical storms, and
droughts, as well as by human-induced disturbances associated with land use
(i.e., agriculture and forest harvest).
	 •	 The term “ecological space” refers to multivariate dimensions defined by a
suite of environmental characteristics. Disturbances can disrupt or create
gradients by altering the mapping of ecological characteristics onto geo-
graphic space.
	 •	 Because the relationship between geographic space and ecological space is
dynamic, the relationship between the physical template and the distribution
and abundance of animal, plant, and microbial species cannot be understood
without reference to the disturbance regime.
	 •	 The resilience of an ecosystem to anthropogenic disturbances might be low
because such disturbances often produce severe modifications to the environ-
ment, creating novel combinations of environmental characteristics that are
outside of the ecological space that was characteristic of the site or which are
characterized by the absence of biological residuals.
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