Land plants have adapted to survive under a range of wind climates and this involve
changes in chemical composition, physical structure and morphology at all scales from the …

Resprouting as a response to disturbance is now widely recognized as a key functional trait
among woody plants and as the basis for the persistence niche. However, the underlying …

Traditional infrastructure adaptation to extreme weather events (and now climate change)
has typically been techno‐centric and heavily grounded in robustness—the capacity to …

Exploring the role of fire in each of the five Mediterranean-type climate ecosystems, this
book offers a unique view of the evolution of fire-adapted traits and the role of fire in shaping …

Background Below-ground bud banks have experienced much recent interest due to
discoveries that they (1) account for the majority of seasonal population renewal in many …

Many woody plants can resprout and many ecosystems are dominated by resprouters. They
persist in situ through disturbance events such as fire, flooding or wind storms. However, the …

Land-use history interacts with natural forces to influence the severity of disturbance events
and the rate and nature of recovery processes in tropical forests. Although we are far from an …

The literature on the effects of catastrophic wind disturbance (windstorms, gales, cyclones,
hurricanes, tornadoes) on forest vegetation is reviewed to examine factors controlling the …

Resprouting is an efficient means by which woody plants regain biomass lost during
disturbance, but there is a life history trade‐off that occurs in all disturbance regimes …

Disturbance is a dominant factor in many ecosystems, and the disturbance regime is likely to
change over the next decades in response to land‐use changes and global warming. We …