A canopy trimming experiment in Puerto Rico: The response of litter invertebrate communities to canopy loss and debris deposition in a tropical forest subject to hurricanes

Ecosystems

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 286-301

  Richardson, Barbara A ^a,b   Richardson, Michael J ^a,b   González, Grizelle ^c   Shiels, Aaron B ^b,d   Srivastava, Diane S ^e  

^a University of Puerto Rico at Rio Piedras ^*  (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO RIO PIEDRAS   (Puerto Rico)

^c USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Canopy gaps; Community composition; Forest manipulation; Fungi; Litterbags; Relative abundance

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CANOPY GAP; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; FOREST FLOOR; FUNGUS; HURRICANE; INVERTEBRATE; LIGHT AVAILABILITY; LITTER; REGROWTH; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SOIL MOISTURE; STORM DAMAGE; THROUGHFALL; TROPICAL FOREST;

PUERTO RICO;

ACARI; ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); COLLEMBOLA; FUNGI; INVERTEBRATA; PSOCOPTERA;

EID: 77951734689     PISSN: 14329840     EISSN: 14350629     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10021-010-9317-6     Document Type: Article

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