Impacts of Hurricane Hugo on the Dwarf Cloud Forest of Puerto Rico's Luquillo Mountains

Caribbean Journal of Science

Volumn 35, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 101-111

  Weaver, Peter L ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL FORESTRY   (Puerto Rico)

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