Avainsana: flowers
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Suomenlinna – an oasis of biodiversity in the center of Helsinki – how the ecological intermediate disturbance hypothesis can be seen in the nature of Suomenlinna fortress islands
Can man and nature live and flourish side by side? Can human activity greatly benefit nature? The intermediate disturbance hypothesis (IDH) assumes that species richness and diversity at the local scale are at their peak when disturbance is of intermediate intensity (Grime, 1973; Horn, 1975; Connell, 1978). This is how human activity often increases the…