Effects of land use history on hurricane damage and recovery in a neotropical forest

Plant Ecology

Volumn 174, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 49-58

  Uriarte, M ^a   Rivera, L W ^b   Zimmerman, J K ^b   Aide, T M ^b   Power, A G ^a   Flecker, A S ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

Author keywords

Hispaniola; Human disturbance; Hurricane effect; Land use history; Los Haitises

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; LAND USE; PLANT COMMUNITY; REGENERATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; STORM DAMAGE;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; DOMINICAN REPUBLIC; GREATER ANTILLES; LOS HAITISES NATIONAL PARK; OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

THEOBROMA CACAO;

EID: 7244242428     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:VEGE.0000046058.00019.d9     Document Type: Article

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