Typhoon effects on litterfall in a subtropical forest

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 33, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 2184-2192

  Lin, Kuo Chuan ^a   Hamburg, Steven P ^b   Tang, Sheng Lin ^a   Hsia, Yue Joe ^c   Lin, Teng Chiu ^d  

^a TAIWAN FORESTRY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Taiwan)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL DONG HWA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL CHANGHUA UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; NITROGEN; NUTRITION; PHOSPHORUS; POTASSIUM; STORMS; WIND;

CANOPY HEIGHT; LITTERFALL; NUTRIENT LOSS;

FORESTRY;

DISTURBANCE; LITTERFALL; NUTRIENT LOSS; TYPHOON;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; TAIWAN;

EID: 1842715800     PISSN: 00455067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/x03-154     Document Type: Article

References (55)

1. Allen, S.E., Grimshaw, H.M., and Rowland, A.P. 1986. Chemical analysis. In Methods in plant ecology. 2nd ed. Edited by P.D. Moore and S.B. Chapman. Blackwell Scientific, Palo Alto, Calif. pp. 285-337.
2. Arthur, M.A., and Fahey, T.J. 1992. Biomass and nutrients in an Engelmann spruce - subalpine fir forest in north-central Colorado: pools, annual production, and internal cycling. Can. J. For. Res. 22: 315-325.
3. Arunachalam, A., Arunachalam, K., Pandey, H.N., and Tripathi, R.S. 1998. Fine litterfall and nutrient dynamics during forest regrowth in the humid subtropics of north-eastern India. For. Ecol. Manage. 110: 209-219.
4. Bellingham, P.J., Tanner, E.V.J., Rich, P.M., and Goodland, T.C.R. 1996. Changes below the canopy of a Jamaican montane rain forest after a hurricane. J. Trop. Biol. 12: 699-722.
5. Binkley, D., Dunkin, K.A., DeBell, D., and Ryan, M.G. 1992. Production and nutrient cycling in mixed plantations of Eucalyptus and Albizia in Hawaii. For. Sci. 38(2): 393-408.
6. Boose, E.R., Foster, D.R., and Fluet, M. 1994. Hurricanes and landscape-level disturbance in tropical and temperate forests. Ecol. Monogr. 64: 369-400.
7. Brasell, H.M., Unwin, G.L., and Stocker, G.C. 1980. The quantity, temporal distribution and mineral-element content of litterfall in two forest types at two sites in tropical Australia. J. Ecol. 68: 123-139.
8. Chang, Y.H. 2001. A Study on the effect of wind on forest structure at Fushan Experimental Forest. Master's thesis, Department of Geography, National Changhua University of Education, Changhua, Taiwan.
9. Cole, D.W., and Rapp, M. 1981. Elemental cycling in forest ecosystems. In Dynamic properties of forest ecosystems. Edited by D.E. Reichle. Cambridge University Press. New York. pp. 341-407.
10. Cuevas, E., Brown, S., and Lugo, A.E. 1991. Above-and below-ground organic matter storage and production in a tropical pine plantation and a paired broadleaf secondary forest. Plant Soil, 135: 257-268.
11. Edwards, P.J. 1982. Studies of mineral cycling in a montane rain forest in New Guinea. V. Rates of cycling in throughfall and litter fall. J. Ecol. 70: 807-827.
12. Gordon, A.M., Chourmouzis, C., and Gordon, A.G. 2000. Nutrient inputs in litterfall and rainwater fluxes in 27-years old red, black and white spruce plantations in Central Ontario, Canada. For. Ecol. Manage. 138: 65-78.
13. Haase, R. 1999. Litterfall and nutrient return in seasonally flooded and non-flooded forest of the Pantanal, Mato Grosso, Brazil. For. Ecol. Manage. 117: 129-147.
14. Hegarty, E.E. 1991. Leaf litter production by lianes and trees in a sub-tropical Australian rain forest. J. Trop. Ecol. 7: 201-214.
15. Herbohn, J.L., and Congdon, R.A. 1993. Ecosystem dynamics at disturbed and undisturbed sites in north Queensland wet tropical rain forest. II. Litterfall. J. Trop. Ecol. 9: 365-380.
16. Horng, F.W., and Chang, W.E. 1996. Soil nutrient pool and available nutrient dynamics in the Fushan mixed hardwood forest ecosystem. Taiwan J. For. Sci. 11(4): 465-473.
17. Horng, F.W., Yu, H.M., and Ma, F.C. 1994. Fertilization effect on the growth of a subtropical secondary hardwood forest in a low montane area in Taiwan. National Science Council, Taipei, Taiwan. Rep. NSC82-0409-B-054-006.
18. Horng, F.W., Yu, H.M., and Ma, F.C. 1995. Typhoons of 1994 doubled the annual litterfall of the Fu-shan mixed hardwood forest ecosystem in northeastern Taiwan. Bull. Taiwan For. Res. Inst. New Ser. 10(4): 485-491.
19. Hsia, Y.J., and Hwong, J.L. 1999. Hydrological characteristics of Fushan experimental forest. Q. J. Chin. For. 32(1): 39-51.
20. Hsu, C.C. 1981. Study on the seasonal variation of litter-fall and its nutrient contents of Cryptomeria and China-fir. Master's thesis, Department of Forest Science, National Chung Hsin University, Taichung, Taiwan.
21. Jorgensen, J.R., Wells, C.G., and Metz, L.J. 1975. The nutrient cycle: key to continuous forest production. J. For. 73: 400-403.
22. Klemmedson, J.O., Meier, C.E., and Campbell, R.E. 1990. Litter fall transfers of dry matter and nutrients in ponderosa pine stands. Can. J. For. Res. 20: 1105-1115.
23. Lin, K.C., Horng, F.W., Yu, H.M., and Ma, F.C. 1994. Biomass and leaf area index estimates of broadleaf forests in Fu-shan forest. Taiwan J. For. Sci. 9(4): 299-315.
24. Lin, K.C., Horng, F.W., Yu, H.M., and Ma, F.C. 1996. Estimate of aboveground nutrient accumulation in broadleaf forests of the Fu-shan forest. Taiwan J. For. Sci. 11(1): 29-42.
25. Lin, K.C., Hwanwu, C.B., and Liu, C.C. 1997. Phenology of broadleaf tree species in Fushan Experimental Forest of northeastern Taiwan. Taiwan J. For. Sci. 12(3): 347-353.
26. Lin, S.T. 1998. Dry matter dynamics and the nutrient contents of litterfall in the Chi-lan Shan hardwoods of northeastern Taiwan. Q. J. Chin. For. 31(2): 115-130.
27. Lin, T.C., Lin, T.T., Chiang, Z.M., Hsia, Y.J., and King, H.B. 1999. A study on typhoon disturbance to the canopy natural hardwood forest in northeastern Taiwan. Q. J. Chin. For. 32: 67-78.
28. Lin, T.C., Hamburg, S.P., King, H.B., and Hsia, Y.J. 2000. Throughfall patterns in a subtropical rain forest of northeastern Taiwan. J. Environ. Qual. 29: 1186-1194.
29. Lin, T.C., Hamburg, S.P., Hsia, Y.J., King, H.B., Wang, L.J., and Lin, K.C. 2001. Base cation leaching from the canopy of a subtropical rainfoerst in northeastern Taiwan. Can. J. For. Res. 31: 1156-1163.
30. Lin, T.C., Hamburg, S.P., Hsia, Y.J., Lin, T.T., King, H.B., Wang, L.J., and Lin, K.C. 2003. Influence of typhoon disturbances on the understory light regime and stand dynamics of a subtropical rain forest in northeastern Taiwan. J. For. Res. 8(3): 139-145.
31. Liu, W., Fox, J.E.D., and Xu, Z. 2002. Biomass and nutrient accumulation in montane evergreen broad-leaved forest (Lithocarpus xylocarpus type) in Ailao Mountains, SW China. For. Ecol. Manage. 158: 223-235.
32. Lodge, D.J., Scatena, F.N., Asbury, C.E., and Sánchez, M.J. 1991. Fine litterfall and related nutrient inputs resulting from hurricane Hugo in subtropical wet and lower montane rain forests of Puerto Rico. Biotropica, 23(4a): 336-342.
33. Lu, S.Y., and Tang, K. 1995. Study on rainfall interception characteristics of natural hardwood forest in central Taiwan. Bull. Taiwan For. Res. Inst. New Ser. 10(4): 447-457.
34. Lu, S.Y., Chi, S.C., and Lu, H.S. 1988. Physical and hydrologic characteristics of forest floor at five different stands in central Taiwan. Bull. Taiwan For. Res. Inst. New Ser. 3(1): 407-413.
35. Mabry, C.M., Hamburg, S.P., Lin, T.C., Horng, F.W., King, H.B., and Hsia, Y.J. 1998. Typhoon disturbance and stand-level damage patterns at a subtropical forest in Taiwan. Biotropica, 30(2): 238-250.
36. McInnes, P.F., Naiman, R.J., Pastor, J., and Cohen, Y. 1992. Effects of moose browsing on vegetation and litter of the boreal forest, Isle Royale, Michigan, USA. Ecology, 73(6): 2059-2075.
37. Nadkarni, N.M., and Matelson, T.J. 1992. Biomass and nutrient dynamics of fine litter of terrestrially rooted material in a neotropical montane forest, Costa Rica. Biotropica, 24(a): 113-120.
38. Pastor, J., and Bockheim, J.G. 1984. Distribution and cycling of nutrients in an aspen-mixed-hardwood-Spodosol ecosystem in northern Wisconsin. Ecology, 65(2): 339-353.
39. Proctor, J., Anderson, J.M., Fogden, S.C.L., and Vallack, H.W. 1983. Ecological studies in four contrasting lowland rain forests in Gunung Mulu National Park, Sarawak. II. Litterfall, litter standing crop and preliminary observations on herbivory. J. Ecol. 71: 261-283.
40. Rapp, M., Ignacio, S.R., Rico, M., and Gallego, H.A. 1999. Biomass, nutrient content, litterfall and nutrient return to the soil in Mediterranean oak forests. For. Ecol. Manage. 119: 39-49.
41. Salivia, L.A. 1972. Historia de los Temporales de Puerto Rica y las Antillas, 1492-1970. Editorial Edil, Inc., University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico.
42. Sampaio, E.V.S.B., Dall'olio, A., Nunes, K.S., and Lemos, E.E.P. 1993. A model of litterfall, litter layer losses and mass transfer in a humid tropical forest at Pernambuco, Brazil. J. Trop. Ecol. 9: 291-301.
43. Santa Regina, I., and Gallardo, J.F. 1989. Biogeochemical cycles in forests of the Sierra de Bejar (Salamanca, Spain): return of bioelements in rainfall. Acta Oecol. 4: 433-438.
44. Santa Regina, I., and Tarazona, T. 2001. Nutrient pools to the soil through organic matter and throughfall under a Scots pine plantation in the Sierra de la Demanda, Spain. Eur. J. Soil. Biol. 37: 125-133.
45. Simpson, R.H., and Riehl, H. 1981. The hurricane and its impact. Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge, La.
46. Swamy, H.R., and Proctor, J. 1994. Litterfall and nutrient cycling in four rain forests in the Sringeri area of the Indian Western Ghats. Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. Lett. 4: 155-165.
47. TFRI. 1989. A list of native plants of Fu-shan Experimental Forest. Taiwan Forestry Research Institute, Taipei, Taiwan.
48. Veneklaas, E.J. 1991. Litterfall and nutrient fluxes in two montane tropical rain forest, Colombia. J. Trop. Ecol. 7: 319-336.
49. Vitousek, P.M. 1984. Litterfall, nutrient cycling, and nutrient limitation in tropical forests. Ecology, 65(1): 285-298.
50. Vitousek, P.M., and Sanford, R.L., Jr. 1986. Nutrient cycling in moist tropical forest. Ann. Rev. Syst. 17: 137-167.
51. Vitousek, P.M., Gerrish, G., Turner, D.R., Walker, L.R., and Mueller-Dombois, D. 1995. Litterfall and nutrient cycling in four Hawaiian montane rainforests. J. Trop. Ecol. 11: 189-203.
52. Wang, H.H., Pan, F.J., Liu, C.K., Yu, Y.H., and Hung, S.F. 2000. Vegetation classification and ordination of a permanent plot in the Fushan experimental forest, northern Taiwan. Taiwan J. For. Sci. 15(3): 411-428.
53. Wang, L.J., King, H.B., Hsia, Y.J., Hwong, J.L., Liou, C.B., and Lin, T.C. 1996. Storm solute changes in the Fushan forested watershed, NE Taiwan. J. Chin. Water Conserv. 27(2): 97-105.
54. Welbourn, M.L., Stone, E.L., and Lassoie, J.P. 1981. Distribution of net litter inputs with respect to slope position and wind direction. For. Sci. 27: 651-659.
55. Whitmore, T.C. 1984. Tropical rain forests of the Far East. Clarendon Press, Oxford, U.K.