Intermediate Disturbance Hypothesis
Hipótesis de la perturbación intermedia
- Date
- 1978 · confidence medium
- Place
- Santa Barbara, California, United States
- Credited to
- Joseph H. Connell
- Field
- Life & health
What was discovered
Ecological hypothesis formulated by Joseph H. Connell stating that a community's species diversity is maximized when disturbances (fires, storms, clearing) are neither too rare nor too frequent.
What it led to
- Guidance for managing tropical forests and coral reefs
- Reference framework in community ecology for decades
- Later debate over its general empirical validity