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Book cover The Landscape Ecology of Fire

Part of the book series: Ecological Studies ((ECOLSTUD,volume 213))

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The response of biogeochemical fluxes to perturbation has been a major focus of ecosystem studies for decades (Bormann and Likens 1979a; Vitousek and Melillo 1979; West et al. 1981). Perturbation is a fundamental component of conceptualizations of system resilience (Holling 1973; Carpenter et al. 2001; Folke et al. 2004), complex adaptive cycles (Norberg and Cumming 2008), self-organization (Rietkerk et al. 2004a), cross-scale interactions (Allen and Holling 2002; Peters et al. 2004; Allen 2007), and abrupt shifts in ecosystem behavior (Groffman et al. 2006; Sonderegger et al. 2009).

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Smithwick, E.A.H. (2011). Pyrogeography and Biogeochemical Resilience. In: McKenzie, D., Miller, C., Falk, D. (eds) The Landscape Ecology of Fire. Ecological Studies, vol 213. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0301-8_6

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