Long-term hurricane damage effects on tropical forest tree growth and mortality

Ecology

Volumn 95, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 2974-2983

  Tanner, Edmund V J ^a   Rodriguez Sanchez, Francisco ^a,d   Healey, John R ^b   Holdaway, Robert J ^c   Bellingham, Peter J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^d DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bayesian; Caribbean; Cyclone; Defoliation; Demography; Disturbance; Forest dynamics; Forest structure; Mortality; Multiple stems; Sprouting; Tree growth

Indexed keywords

CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH RATE; GROWTH RESPONSE; HURRICANE; MONTANE FOREST; MORTALITY; RAINFOREST; TIMESCALE; TREE;

JAMAICA;

EID: 84908306641     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/13-1801.1     Document Type: Article

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