Regeneration After Hurricane Disturbance of Big-Leaf and Hybrid Mahogany Plantations in Puerto Rico

Wang, Hsiang‐Hua; Scatena, Frederick N.

doi:10.1007/0-387-21778-9_12

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“…• the assessment of the responses of tree plantations to hurricanes (Fu et al 1996;Wang and Scatena 2003;Ostertag et al 2005). Trees in plantations grow faster at low elevations (<500 m), where soils are better aerated and the rainfall is lower than at high elevations.…”

Section: Managed Systems In Relation To Soils and Successionmentioning

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Ecological Paradigms for the Tropics

Lugo¹,

Waide²,

Willig³

et al. 2012

A Caribbean Forest Tapestry

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This chapter focuses on the ecological response mechanisms of the Luquillo Mountains to natural and human-induced disturbances, such as hurricanes and land cover change. It identifies the ecosystems of the Luquillo Mountains as a perfect representation of large masses of a non-frost tropical land because of its naturally occurring features: high rainfall, hurricane disturbances, maritime climate, and insularity. It then sets out the Luquillo Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) program as a by-product of the 20th and 21st century experimentations, and discusses its contributions to the basic understanding of the ecological make-up and biogeochemistry of the Luquillo Mountains.

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Section: Managed Systems In Relation To Soils and Successionmentioning

confidence: 99%