Insect Responses to Major Landscape-Level Disturbance

• Published in: Annual review of entomology Vol. 57; pp. 1 - 20
• Main Author: Schowalter, T.D
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Annual Reviews 01.01.2012
• Subjects: Animals; biologists; Disasters; Ecosystem; ecosystems; Environmental Pollution; extinction; habitats; hosts; Humans; Insecta; insects; landscapes; population distribution; predation; prediction

Disturbances are abrupt events that dramatically alter habitat conditions and resource distribution for populations and communities. Terrestrial landscapes are subject to various disturbance events that create a matrix of patches with different histories of disturbance and recovery. Species toleranc...