Large disturbances, such as hurricanes and fires, are absent; thus, individual treefalls and small windstorms are the sole natural source of canopy turnover.
Take the hurricane value genus, for instance, whose two species are hurricane optimality and hurricane suboptimality.
The effect of a hurricane covers a greater area and produces many gaps comprising multiple treefalls, and may therefore produce more noticeable or different effects.
More interesting, perhaps, are differences in the effects of the two hurricanes.
Relative variability of the total snail assemblage was unaffected by either hurricane identity or time since disturbance.
One is taken by the hurricane or the currents and is shipwrecked.
In all but the hurricane domains the dominant issue on the agenda changes when an event is specifically mentioned.
But often the natural does great harm - disease, pestilence, floods, hurricanes, fire, landslides, and the like can cause massive loss of human life.
