Understory fern community structure, growth and spore production responses to a large-scale hurricane experiment in a Puerto Rico rainforest

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 332, Issue , 2014, Pages 75-86

  Sharpe, Joanne M ^a   Shiels, Aaron B ^b,c  

^a Sharplex Services   (United States)

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

^c NATIONAL WILDLIFE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Canopy litter; Cyathea borinquena; Ecological resilience; Invasive pioneer fern; Thelypteris deltoidea; Tropical understory light

Indexed keywords

DEBRIS; DEPOSITION; EXPERIMENTS; FORESTRY; PLANTS (BOTANY); POPULATION STATISTICS; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

CANOPY LITTER; CYATHEA BORINQUENA; ECOLOGICAL RESILIENCE; INVASIVE PIONEER FERN; THELYPTERIS DELTOIDEA; UNDERSTORY LIGHT;

HURRICANE EFFECTS;

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DISTURBANCE; FERN; GROWTH RATE; HURRICANE; INVASIVE SPECIES; LITTER; MORTALITY; PIONEER SPECIES; PLANT COMMUNITY; RAINFOREST; SPORULATION; WOODY DEBRIS;

FOREST CANOPY; FOREST LITTER; GERMINATION; REPRODUCTION; SOIL;

PUERTO RICO;

CYATHEA BORINQUENA; ELAGATIS; FILICOPHYTA; NEPHROLEPIS; POLYPODIACEAE; THELYPTERIS DELTOIDEA;

EID: 84918785067     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2014.01.023     Document Type: Article

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