Disturbance and succession / The turbulent wind in plant and forest canopies / Thunderstorm downbursts : windstorms and blowdowns / Wind disturbance in forests : the process of wind created gaps, tree overturning, and stem breakage / Meteorological conditions associated with ice storm damage to forests / The effect of icing events on the death and regeneration of North American trees / Coastal dune succession and the reality of dune processes / Fluvial geomorphic disturbances and life-history traits of riparian tree species / Water level charges in ponds and lakes : the hydrological processes / Development of post-disturbance vegetation in prairie wetlands / Modeling fire effects on plants : from organs to ecosystems / Insect defoliators as periodic disturbances in northern forest ecosystems / Revisiting the relationship between spruce budworm outbreaks and forest dynamics over the Holocene in Eastern North American based on novel proxies / Beaver as agents of plant disturbance