Ecosystem management based on natural disturbances: hierarchical context and non-equilibrium paradigm

Summary 1. Maintenance of ecological integrity and biodiversity must be based on well‐grounded principles of disturbance ecology. However, non‐equilibrium aspects of ecosystems, such as unpredictability, instability and stochasticity due to various natural disturbances, have not been satisfactorily integrated into practical application. Failure to acknowledge the dynamic nature of systems will inevitably lead to unexpected changes and unachieved...