By energy laws, keystone processes (disburbance renewal regenerative cycles) emerged to maximize ecosystem energy intake and transformation into biology, ecosystem services, and system resilience. Adaptive, pulsing renewal cycles maintained multiple successional seres in predictable spatial temporal landscape patterns. Historically, when pulsing cyclic renewal processes were intact, all successional seres occurred across a landscape, which maximized landscape diversity and resilience. Shifting middle seres predictably dominated landscapes in space and/or time. Middle seres contain the highest functional ROI, diversity, edibility, foodweb complexity, and production of services. Current management often targets preferential commodified seres and suppresses renewal cycles. Loss of Keystone Processes (LKPs) manifests homogenized successional sere landscapes, dominated by novel arrays of low-quality organisms that leak soils and nutrients, cause system eutrophication, and facilitate susceptibility to epidemic disease, pestilence, intense wildfire, and dominance by nitrophilic species. 
