"Disturbance, dynamics and resilience of understory plant communities in northern forests"

干扰是大多数植物群落组成和生物多样性的重要驱动因素。了解有助于植物群落在受到干扰时保持稳定(抵抗)或从干扰中恢复(复原)的能力的因素，对于受干扰生态系统的可持续管理和恢复以及生物多样性的保护非常重要。在这个人类对生态系统的干扰日益增加的时代，当气候变化等现象可能导致极端或不寻常的干扰事件(例如，山松甲虫的爆发或极端野火)时，情况尤其如此。植物物种在耐荫性、分散性和再生策略等特征上存在差异，这些特征将影响它们的抗性或弹性。当生态系统受到干扰时，一些物种会拥有让它们表现得比其他物种更好的特征。这些在干扰后留在现场的抗性物种会对植物群落在干扰后的发展产生非常重要的影响，从而对未来的生物多样性和生态系统功能产生重要影响。

Disturbance is an important driver of the composition and biodiversity of most plant communities. Understanding the factors that contribute to the ability of a plant community to remain stable in the face of disturbance (resistance) or to recover from disturbance (resilience) is important for sustainable management and restoration of disturbed ecosystems and for conservation of biodiversity. This is particularly true in this era of increasing human disturbance of ecosystems and when phenomena such as climate change may be leading to extreme or unusual disturbance events (e.g., outbreaks of the Mountain Pine Beetle or extreme wildfires). Plant species differ in traits such as shade tolerance, dispersal, and regeneration strategy that will influence their resistance or resilience. When an ecosystem is disturbed, some species will possess traits that allow them to perform better than others. These resistant species that remain on a site after disturbance can have a very important influence on the post-disturbance development of the plant community, and thus on the future biodiversity and ecosystem function.