title: Are the dynamics of tropical forests dominated by large and rare disturbance events?
abstract: A recent Ecology Letters paper of Fisher et al. (2008) utilized a modelling framework to investigate disturbance effects on forest biomass dynamics. But it contains serious methodological and conceptual errors. Associated conclusions are unlikely to be correct.
authors.affiliation: School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK. j.lloyd@leeds.ac.uk
authors.forename: Jon
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lloyd
authors.forename: Emanuel U
authors.initials: EU
authors.lastname: Gloor
authors.forename: Simon L
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: Lewis
mesh_terms: D017753:Ecosystem; D008954:Models, Biological; D014197:Trees / Q000254:growth & development*; D014329:Tropical Climate