The Emergence Machine

Ecological Disturbance

abstract · Ecology · Level 8 · E7

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Emergence definition

Event that removes organisms and alters environmental conditions, such as fire, flood, or windstorm, affecting succession.

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Wiktionary senses

External reference — all senses of the word “ecological disturbance” on Wiktionary. This atlas concept maps to only the slice of meaning relevant to the prerequisite graph.

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Source: Wiktionary — “ecological disturbance”. Content available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Historical origin

Origin word
ecological disturbance
Origin language
English

Prerequisite chain

Possible path of this concept down to the fundamental substrate.

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Neighborhood

Direct prerequisites above, concepts that depend on this one below.

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Prerequisites

What you need to understand first.

  • Balance L3 (requires) Visual Arts sense
    ecological disturbance requires understanding balance as a foundational concept
  • Function L3 (requires)
    An event or process that disrupts the normal functioning of an ecosystem, resulting in a deviation from its stable energy dynamics and potentially altering the distribution of energy and matter within the system.
  • Ecosystem L7 (requires) polysemous
    An event or process that disrupts the normal functioning of an ecosystem, resulting in a deviation from its stable energy dynamics and potentially altering the distribution of energy and matter within the system.