Work from lab alum Jess Haghkerdar's masters thesis now published! Haghkerdar et al. demonstrate that disturbance frequency, not just time since last disturbance can alter community structure in different ways. Previous studies have not controlled for the length of time a community has had to recover post disturbance (communities that are disturbed more often have also been disturbed more recently, and therefore successional processes are confounded). Taxa were lost due to differences in vulnerability under increasing disturbance frequency. Check it out for yourself here:
Haghkerdar, JM, McLachlan, JR, Ireland, A, Greig HS. (2019) Repeat disturbances have cumulative impacts on stream communities. Ecology and Evolution (early view)
Haghkerdar, JM, McLachlan, JR, Ireland, A, Greig HS. (2019) Repeat disturbances have cumulative impacts on stream communities. Ecology and Evolution (early view)