Forest floor decomposition following hurricane litter inputs in several Puerto Rican forests

Ecosystems

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 261-273

  Ostertag, Rebecca ^a,b,c   Scatena, Frederick N ^b   Silver, Whendee L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL FORESTRY   (Puerto Rico)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII AT HILO   (United States)

Author keywords

Forest floor; Nutrient pulses; Puerto Rico; Resilience; Resistance; Resource heterogeneity; Tropical forests

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; DECOMPOSITION; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FOREST FLOOR; HURRICANE; LEAF LITTER; NUTRIENT CYCLING;

PUERTO RICO;

EID: 0038444213     PISSN: 14329840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00021512     Document Type: Article

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