@article {JRN55199,
	title = {Long-term ecological research and evolving frameworks of disturbance ecology},
	journal = {BioScience},
	volume = {70},
	year = {2020},
	month = {02/2020},
	pages = {141-156},
	chapter = {141},
	abstract = {Detecting and understanding disturbance is a challenge in ecology that has grown more critical with global environmental change and the emergence of research on social{\textendash}ecological systems. We identify three areas of research need: developing a flexible framework that\&nbsp; incorporates feedback loops between social and ecological systems, anticipating whether a disturbance will change vulnerability to other environmental drivers,\&nbsp;and incorporating changes in system sensitivity to disturbance in the face of global changes in environmental drivers. In the present article, we\&nbsp;review how discoveries from the US Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network have influenced theoretical paradigms in disturbance\&nbsp;ecology, and we refine a framework for describing social{\textendash}ecological disturbance that addresses these three challenges. By operationalizing this\&nbsp;framework for seven LTER sites spanning distinct biomes, we show how disturbance can maintain or alter ecosystem state, drive spatial patterns\&nbsp;at landscape scales, influence social{\textendash}ecological interactions, and cause divergent outcomes depending on other environmental changes.
},
	keywords = {disturbance, ecological research networks, ecological theory, LTER, social{\textendash}ecological studies},
	doi = {10.1093/biosci/biz162},
	url = {files/bibliography/20-009.pdf},
	author = {Gaiser, Evelyn E. and Bell, David M. and Max Castoroni and Daniel L. Childers and Peter M. Groffman and Rhett G. Jackson and Kominoski, John S. and Debra C. Peters and Steward T.A. Pickett and Ripplinger, Julie and Zinnert, Julie C.}
}
