Kenneth P. Lertzman

TL;DR: An empirical model based on the negative exponential distribution for calculating minimum probabilities that animals disperse particular distances from their natal areas can be used to conservatively predict dispersal distances for different species and examine possible consequences of large-scale habitat alterations on connectedness between populations.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors identified key issues including relationships between biodiversity and ecosystem function as a foundation of ecological integrity, resilience thinking to better prepare for and adapt to environmental changes, social-ecological perspectives that facilitate real-world conservation and management and theory-driven restoration that bridges science and practice.

TL;DR: Stand-scale fire histories of the past 5000 years are reported based on the analysis of sediment charcoal at two lakes 11 km apart in southeastern British Columbia to conclude that the influence of climate on fire occurrence is more strongly expressed when climatic variability is relatively great.

TL;DR: These general trends in gap-phase structure and gap formation processes are consistent with data on gaps and forest age structure collected elsewhere on the British Columbia coast, suggesting that a regime of small-scale, low-intensity disturbance is common in the old-growth forests of coastal British Columbia.

TL;DR: In this paper, a long-term spatially explicit fire history and the spatial and temporal distribution of fire during the Holocene were examined in the coastal temperate rain forest of British Columbia.