September 9: Introduction to Disturbance Ecology
Presenter: Peter White

Required Readings:

White, P. S., and A. Jentsch. 2001. The search for generality in studies of disturbance and ecosystem dynamics. Progress in Botany 62:399-450.

Optional Readings:

White, P. S. 1979. Pattern, process, and natural disturbance in vegetation. Botanical Review 45:229-299.

White, P. S., and A. Jentsch (in press). Developing multipatch environmental ethics: the paradigm of flux and the challenge of a patch dynamic world. Silva Carelica.

White, P.S., and S.T.A. Pickett. 1985. Introduction in S.T.A. Pickett and P. S. White (eds.) 1985. The ecology of natural disturbance and patch dynamics. Academic Press, New York.

Other materials:

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