A decade of belowground reorganization following multiple disturbances in a subtropical wet forest

Plant and Soil

Volumn 323, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 197-212

  Teh, Yit Arn ^a,c   Silver, Whendee L ^a   Scatena, Frederick N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biogeochemical cycling; Gap dynamics; Hurricanes; Land use change; Luquillo Mountains Puerto Rico; Succession

Indexed keywords

BELOWGROUND BIOMASS; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FOREST CLEARANCE; GAP DYNAMICS; HUMID TROPICS; HURRICANE; LAND USE CHANGE; MORTALITY; PHOSPHORUS; PLANT COMMUNITY; POTASSIUM; SOIL CARBON; SOIL NUTRIENT; STAND STRUCTURE; SUBTROPICAL REGION; SUCCESSION; TROPICAL FOREST;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; GREATER ANTILLES; LUQUILLO MOUNTAINS; PUERTO RICO;

EID: 70350380985     PISSN: 0032079X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11104-009-9926-z     Document Type: Article

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