Hurricane damage and forest structure in Guadeloupe, French West Indies

Journal of Tropical Ecology

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 663-680

  Imbert, Daniel ^a   Labbé, Patrick ^b   Rousteau, Alain ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DES ANTILLES ET DE LA GUYANE   (France)

^b CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

Disturbance; Forest structure; Guadeloupe; Hurricane; Mangrove; Tropical rainforest; Tropical semi evergreen forest

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DISTURBANCE; HURRICANE HUGO; MANGROVE; RAINFOREST; SEMI-EVERGREEN FOREST;

GUADELOUPE;

EID: 0030437322     PISSN: 02664674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S026646740000986X     Document Type: Article

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