Structural and functional responses of a subtropical forest to 10 years of hurricanes and droughts

Ecological Monographs

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 345-361

  Beard, Karen H ^a   Vogt, Kristiina A ^b   Vogt, Daniel J ^b   Scatena, Frederick N ^c   Covich, Alan P ^d   Sigurdardottir, Ragnhildur ^e   Siccama, Thomas G ^e   Crowl, Todd A ^a  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^e Yale School of the Environment   (United States)

Author keywords

Decomposition; Disturbance; Drought; Fine roots; Hurricane; Land use legacy; Litterfall; Luquillo Experimental Forest; Productivity; Puerto Rico; Recovery; Tropics

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DECOMPOSITION; DISTURBANCE; DROUGHT; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; FOREST DYNAMICS; HURRICANE; LITTERFALL; SUBTROPICAL REGION;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; GREATER ANTILLES; OCEANIC REGIONS; PUERTO RICO; WORLD;

EID: 22544464168     PISSN: 00129615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/04-1114     Document Type: Article

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