Hurricane disturbance and forest resilience: Assessing structural vs. functional changes in a Caribbean dry forest

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 255, Issue 8-9, 2008, Pages 3494-3501

  Imbert, Daniel ^a   Portecop, Jacques ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DES ANTILLES ET DE LA GUYANE   (France)

Author keywords

Dry forest; Forest recovery; Forest structure; Hurricane disturbance; Litterfall; Mortality; Recruitment; Resilience; Tree growth

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY;

DRY FOREST; FOREST RECOVERY; FOREST STRUCTURE; TREE GROWTH;

HURRICANE EFFECTS;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CATASTROPHIC EVENT; DRY FOREST; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FUNCTIONAL CHANGE; HURRICANE; HURRICANE HUGO 1989; LITTERFALL; MORTALITY; OLD-GROWTH FOREST; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); RESILIENCE; STAND STRUCTURE;

FOREST LITTER; FORESTRY; MORTALITY;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS;

EID: 43049175024     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2008.02.030     Document Type: Article

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