Seven-year responses of trees to experimental hurricane effects in a tropical rainforest, Puerto Rico

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 332, Issue , 2014, Pages 64-74

  Zimmerman, Jess K ^a   Hogan, James Aaron ^a   Shiels, Aaron B ^a,b   Bithorn, John E ^a   Carmona, Samuel Matta ^a   Brokaw, Nicholas ^a  

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

^b NATIONAL WILDLIFE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Basal area; Intermediate Disturbance Hypothesis; Luquillo Experimental Forest; Mortality; Recruitment; Species diversity

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; DEBRIS; DEPOSITION; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; FORECASTING; HURRICANE EFFECTS; HURRICANE RESISTANCE; TRIMMING;

BASAL AREA; INTERMEDIATE DISTURBANCE HYPOTHESIS; LUQUILLO EXPERIMENTAL FOREST; MORTALITY; RECRUITMENT;

FORESTRY;

BASAL AREA; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; HURRICANE; INTERMEDIATE DISTURBANCE HYPOTHESIS; MORTALITY; PIONEER SPECIES; RAINFOREST; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS);

FORESTS; MORTALITY; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION;

LUQUILLO EXPERIMENTAL FOREST; PUERTO RICO;

EID: 84914178821     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2014.02.029     Document Type: Article

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