Human or natural disturbance: Landscape-scale dynamics of the tropical forests of Puerto Rico

Ecological Applications

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 555-572

  Foster, D R ^a   Fluet, M ^a,b   Boose, E R ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Box 36 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Disturbance; Geographic Information Systems; Hurricanes; Landscape dynamics; Mantel test; Modeling; Puerto Rico; Succession; Topographic exposure; Tropical forests

Indexed keywords

FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FORSTERITE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

PUERTO RICO; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033134710     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/1051-0761(1999)009[0555:HONDLS]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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