Assessment of Everglades mangrove forest resilience: Implications for above-ground net primary productivity and carbon dynamics

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 404, Issue , 2017, Pages 115-125

  Danielson, Tess M ^a   Rivera Monroy, Victor H ^a   Castañeda Moya, Edward ^a   Briceño, Henry ^b   Travieso, Rafael ^b   Marx, Brian D ^a   Gaiser, Evelyn ^b   Farfán, Luis M ^c  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN CIENTÍFICA Y DE EDUCACIÓN SUPERIOR DE ENSENADA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Florida Coastal Everglades; Mangrove productivity; Natural disturbance; Neotropics; Resilience

Indexed keywords

CARBON; ECOSYSTEMS; HURRICANES; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYTOPLANKTON; RECOVERY;

FLORIDA; FOREST STRUCTURE; NATURAL DISTURBANCE; NEOTROPICS; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITY; PRODUCTION RATES; RESILIENCE; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL PATTERNS;

FORESTRY;

ABOVEGROUND PRODUCTION; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; MANGROVE; NEOTROPICAL REGION; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STAND STRUCTURE;

MANGROVE; PRODUCTIVITY; RESILIENCE;

EVERGLADES; FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

RHIZOPHORACEAE;

EID: 85028511125     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2017.08.009     Document Type: Article

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