Plant responses to simulated hurricane impacts in a subtropical wet forest, Puerto Rico

Journal of Ecology

Volumn 98, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 659-673

  Shiels, Aaron B ^a,e   Zimmerman, Jess K ^a   García Montiel, Diana C ^a   Jonckheere, Inge ^b   Holm, Jennifer ^c   Horton, David ^d   Brokaw, Nicholas ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^d University of Hawaii ^*  (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Cecropia; Competition; Detritus; Disturbance; Light; Psychotria; Seedlings; Succession; Understorey; Wind

Indexed keywords

BASAL AREA; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DETRITUS; DOMINANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FOREST CANOPY; GERMINATION; HURRICANE HUGO 1989; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; LIGHT EFFECT; MORTALITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); REGENERATION; SEED BANK; SEEDLING; UNDERSTORY; WOODY PLANT;

PUERTO RICO;

CECROPIA; CECROPIA SCHREBERIANA; PSYCHOTRIA; PSYCHOTRIA BERTERIANA;

EID: 77952934004     PISSN: 00220477     EISSN: 13652745     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2745.2010.01646.x     Document Type: Article

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