Hurricanes, coral reefs and rainforests: Resistance, ruin and recovery in the Caribbean

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Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 106-114

  Lugo, Ariel E ^a,f   Rogers, Caroline S ^b,e   Nixon, Scott W ^c,d  

^a USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^b Luquillo Experimental Forest Long Term Ecological Research Program   (Puerto Rico)

^c INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL FORESTRY   (Puerto Rico)

^d NATIONAL PARK SERVICE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORAL REEF; ECOSYSTEM STRUCTURE; HURRICANE; RAINFOREST;

CARIBBEAN ISLANDS;

EID: 0034112908     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1579/0044-7447-29.2.106     Document Type: Article

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78. The impetus to develop this article was the workshop on Resilience and Management of Coral Reef Ecosystems which was held on October 8-10, 1997 in Stockholm, Sweden and sponsored by the Beijer Institute. This work was done in cooperation with the University of Puerto Rico. It is part of the USDA Forest Service contribution to the National Science Foundation Long-Term Ecological Research Program at the Luquillo Experimental Forest (Grant BSR-8811902), to the Institute for Tropical Ecosystem Studies of the University of Puerto Rico, and to the International Institute of Tropical Forestry, USDA Forest Service. Support was also provided by the Rhode Island Sea Grant College Program. We thank Wayne Arendt, M. Alayón, Dolores Smith, Joaquin Chaves, and Isaac Ginis for assistance in manuscript preparation.
79. First submitted 17 May 1999. Accepted for publication after revision 15 October 1999.