LEF-LTER PUBLICATIONS

The following list contains publications resulting directly from work performed under the LEF-LTER or that was supported in a substantial way by the LTER during the period Oct. 1994 – January 2000. The list includes 177 refereed journal articles, 69 book chapters, 27 theses and dissertations, and 23 other publications during the period. The graph below provides number of all publications during the entire 12 year period of the LEF-LTER program.


 

Refereed Journal Articles

Aide, T. M., J. K. Zimmerman, M. Rosario, and H. Marcano. 1996. Forest recovery in abandoned cattle pastures along an elevation gradient in northeastern Puerto Rico. Biotropica 28:537-548.

Angulo-Sandoval, P., and T. M. Aide. 2000. Leaf phenology and leaf damage of saplings in the Luquillo Experimental Forest, Puerto Rico. Biotropica (in press).

Asbury, C. E., W. H. McDowell, R. Trinidad-Pizarro, and S. Berrios. 1994. Solute deposition from cloud water to the canopy of a Puerto Rican montane forest. Atmospheric Environment 28:1773-1780.

Baroni, T. J. and D. J. Lodge. 1998. Basidiomycetes of the Greater Antilles I: new species and new records of Alboleptonia from Puerto Rico and St. John. Mycologia 90:680-696.

Baroni, T. J., D. J. Lodge, and S. A. Cantrell. 1997. Tropical connections: sister species and species in common between the Caribbean and the eastern United States. Mcllvainea 13:4-19.

Baroni, T. J., R. Vilgalys, D. J. Lodge, and N. V. Legon. 2000. Calocybe in the Caribbean. The Mycologist (in press).

Bayman, P. L., L. Lebrón, R. L. Tremblay, and D. J. Lodge. 1997. Variation in endophytic fungi from roots and leaves of Lepanthes (Orchidaceae). New Phytologist 135:143-149.

Bayman, P., P. Angulo-Sandoval, Z. Baez-Ortiz, and D. J. Lodge. 1998. Distribution and dispersal of Xylaria endophytes in two species in Puerto Rico. Mycological Research 102:944-948.

Benstead, J. P., J. G. March, C. M. Pringle, and F. N. Scatena. 1999. Effects of a low-head dam and water abstraction on migratory tropical stream biota. Ecological Applications 9:656-668.

Boose, E. R., D. R. Foster, and M. Fluet. 1994. Hurricane impacts to tropical and temperate forest landscapes. Ecological Monographs 64:369-400.

Brokaw, N. V. L. 1998. Cecropia schreberiana in the Luquillo Mountains of Puerto Rico. The Botanical Review 64:91-120.

Brokaw, N., and R. T. Busing. 2000. Niche versus chance and tree diversity in tropical and temperate forest gaps. Trends in Ecology and Evolution (in press).

Brokaw, N., and J. Thompson. 2000. The H for DBH. Forest Ecology and Management (in press).

Brown, S. and A.E. Lugo. 1999. Tropical secondary forests. Journal of Tropical Ecology 6:1-32.

Brown, E.T., R.F. Stallard, M. C. Larsen, G. M. Raiseck, and F.Yiou. 1995. Denudation rates determined from the accumulation of in situ produced 10Be in the Luquillo Experimental Forest, Puerto Rico. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 129:193-202.

Brown, E. T., R. F. Stallard, M. C. Larsen, D. L. Bour, G. M. Raiseck, and F.Yiou. 1998. Pre-anthropogenic denudation rates of a perturbed watershed (Cayaguas River, Puerto Rico) estimated from in situ produced 10Be in river borne quartz. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 160: 723-728.

Callaway, R. M. and L. R. Walker. 1998. Competition and facilitation: a synthetic approach to interactions in plant communities. Ecology 79:1958-1965.

Cantrell, S. A. and D. J. Lodge. 2000. Hygrophoraceae of the Greater Antilles. Section Firmae. Mycological Research (in press).

Chesnut, T.J., D.J. Zarin, W.H. McDowell, and M. Keller. 1999. A nitrogen budget for late-successional hillslope tabonuco forest, Puerto Rico. Biogeochemistry 46:85-108.

Chestnut, T.J. and W.H. McDowell. 2000. Nitrogen and carbon dynamics in the riparian and hyporheic zones of a tropical stream: Luquillo Mountains, Puerto Rico. Journal of the North American Benthological Society (in press).

Clark, K. C., N. M. Nadkarni, D. Schaefer, and H. L. Gholz. 1998a. Atmospheric deposition and net retention of ions by the canopy in a tropical montane forest, Monteverde, Costa Rica. Journal of Tropical Ecology 14:27-46.

Clark, K. C., N. M. Nadkarni, D. Schaefer, and H. L. Gholz. 1998b. Cloud water and precipitation chemistry in a tropical montane forest, Monterverde, Costa Rica. Atmospheric Environment 32:1595-1603.

Covich, A.P. 1996. Stream biodiversity and ecosystem processes. Bulletin of the North American Benthological Society 13:294-303.

Covich, A. P., T. A. Crowl, J. E. Alexander, and C. C. Vaughn. 1994. Benthic prey avoidance behaviours in response to decapod predators: Temperate and tropical comparisons. Journal of North American Benthological Society 13:283-290.

Covich, A. P., T. A. Crowl, S. L. Johnson, and M. Pyron. 1996. Distribution and abundance of tropical freshwater shrimp along a stream corridor: Response to disturbance. Biotropica 28:484-492.

Covich, A. P., M. A. Palmer, and T. A. Crowl. 1999. The role of benthic invertebrate species in freshwater ecosystems. BioScience 49:119-127.

Covich, A. P., T. A. Crowl, and F. N. Scatena. 2000. Linking habitat stability to floods and droughts: Effects on decapods in montane streams. Verhandlungen Internationale Vereinigung fur Theoretische und Angewandte Limnologie 27 (in press).

Crowl, T. A., and A. P. Covich. 1994. Responses of a freshwater shrimp to chemical and tactile stimuli from a large decapod predator. Journal of North American Benthological Society 13:291-298.

Crowl, T. A., and J. M. Culp. 1994. Non-visual cues in benthic predator-prey systems: Introduction to a symposium. Journal of North American Benthological Society 13:266-267.

Crowl, T. A., C. R. Townsend, N. Bouwes, and H. Thomas. 1997. Scales and causes of patchiness in stream invertebrate communities: top down predator effects. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 16:277-285.

Crowl, T. A., N. Bouwes, M. J. Townsend, A. P. Covich, and F. N. Scatena. 2000. Estimating the potential role of feshwater shrimp on an aquatic insect assemblage in a tropical headwater stream: A bionergetics approach. Verhanlungen Internationale Vereinigung Limnologie (in press).

Crowl, T.A., W.H. McDowell, A.P. Covich, and S.L. Johnson. 2000. Species specific effects of freshwater shrimp on detrital processing and localized nutrient dynamics in a montane tropical rain forest stream. Ecology (in press).

Cuevas, E., and A.E. Lugo. 1999. Dynamics of organic matter and nutrient return from litterfall in stands of ten tropical tree plantation species. Forest Ecology and Management 112:263-279.

de Castro, F. and N. Fetcher . 1999. The effect of leaf clustering in the interception of light in vegetal canopies: Theoretical considerations. Ecological Modelling 116: 125-134.

Dale, V. H., A. E. Lugo, J. A. MacMahon, and T. A. Stewart. 1998. Ecosystem Management in the context of large, infrequent disturbances. Ecosystems 1:546-557.

Delaney, M. S., S. Brown, A. E. Lugo, A. Torres-Lezama, and N. Bello. 1998. The distribution of organic carbon in major components of forests located in five life zones of Venezuela. Journal of Tropical Ecology 13:697-708.

Dial, R. and J. Roughgarden. 1994. Notes on the absolute abundance of canopy anoles, Anolis cuvieri, A. evermanni (Lacertilia:Polychridae) in the Luquillo Forest, Puerto Rico. Caribbean Journal of Science 30:278-279.

Dial, R. and J. Roughgarden. 1995. Experimental removal of insectivores from rain forest canopy: direct and indirect effects. Ecology 76:1821-1834.

Dodson, S., T. A. Crowl, B. L. Peckarsky, L. B. Katz, A. P. Covich, and J. M. Culp. 1994. Non-visual cues in freshwater benthos and plankton. Journal of North American Benthological Society 13:268-282.

Eklund, T. J., W. H. McDowell, and C. M. Pringle. 1997. Seasonal patterns in tropical precipitation chemistry: La Selva, Costa Rica. Atmospheric Environment 31:3903-3910.

Everham, E. M. and N. V. L. Brokaw. 1996. Forest damage and recovery from catastrophic wind. The Botanical Review 62:113-185.

Everham, E. M., R. W. Myster, and E. VanDeGenachte. 1996. Effects of light, moisture, temperature, and litter on the regeneration of five tree species in the tropical montane wet forest of Puerto Rico. American Journal of Botany 83:1063-1068.

Fernández, D. S. and R. W. Myster. 1995. Temporal variation and frequency distribution of photosynthetic photon flux densities on landslides in Puerto Rico. Journal of Tropical Ecology 36:73-87.

Fetcher, N., B. L. Haines, R. A. Cordero, D. J. Lodge, L. R. Walker, D. S. Fernández, and W. T. Lawrence. 1996. Responses of tropical plants to nutrients and light on a landslide in Puerto Rico. Journal of Ecology 84:331-341.

Fetcher, N., R. A. Cordero, and J. Voltzow. 2000. Lack of ecotypic differentiation: Plant response to elevation, population origin, and wind in the Luquillo Mountains, Puerto Rico. Biotropica (in press).

Foster, D. R., M. Fluet, and E. R. Boose. 1999. Human or natural disturbance: landscape-scale dynamics of the tropical forests of Puerto Rico. Ecological Applications 9:555-572.

Frangi, J. L., and A. E. Lugo. 2000. A palm floodplain forest five years after Hurricane Hugo. Biotropica (in press).

Fu, S., C. Rodríguez Pedraza, and A. E. Lugo. 1996. A twelve-year comparison of stand changes in a mahogany plantation and a paired natural forest of similar age. Biotropica 28:515-524.

Gannon, M. R., and M. R. Willig. 1994a. The effects of hurricane Hugo on bats of the Luquillo Experimental Forest of Puerto Rico. Biotropica 26:320-331.

Gannon, M. R., and M. R. Willig. 1994b. Records of bat ectoparasites from the Luquillo Experimental Forest of Puerto Rico. Caribbean Journal of Science 30:281-283.

Gannon, M. R., and M. R. Willig. 1995. Ecology of ectoparasites from tropical bats. Environmental Entomology 24:1495-1503.

Gannon, M. R., and M. R. Willig. 1997. The effect of lunar illumination on movement and activity of the red fig-eating bat (Stenoderma rufum). Biotropica 29:525-529.

García-Martinó, A. R., G. S. Warner, F. N. Scatena, and D. L. Civco. 1996a. Rainfall, runoff, and elevation relationships in the Luquillo Mountains of Puerto Rico. Caribbean Journal of Science 32:413-424.

García-Martinó, A. R., F. N. Scatena, G. S. Warner, and D. L. Civco. 1996b. Statistical low flow estimation using GIS analysis in humid montane regions in Puerto Rico. Water Resources Bulletin 32:1259-1271.

García-Montiel, D. C., and F. N. Scatena. 1994. The effect of human activity on the structure and composition of a tropical forest in Puerto Rico. Forest Ecology and Management 63:57-78.

Gonser, R. A., and R. V. Collura. 1996. Waste not, want not: toe-clips as a source of DNA. Journal of Herpetology 30:445-447.

Gonser, R. A., and L. L. Woolbright. 1995. Homing behavior of the Puerto Rican frog, Eleutherodactylus coqui. Journal of Herpetology 29:481-484.

González, G. and X. Zou. 1999a. Earthworms influence on N availability and the growth of Cecropia schreberiana in tropical pasture and forest soils. Pedobiologia 43:1-6.

González, G., and X. Zou. 1999. Plant and litter influences on earthworm abundance and community structure in a tropical wet forest. Biotropica 31:486-493.

González, G., X. Zou, and S. Borges. 1996. Earthworm abundance and species composition in abandoned tropical croplands: comparisons of tree plantations and secondary forests. Pedobiologia 40:385-391.

González, G., X. Zou, A. Sabat, and N. Fetcher. 1999. Earthworm abundance and distribution pattern in contrasting plant communities within a tropical wet forest. Caribbean Journal of Science 35:93-100.

Gross, K. L., M. R. Willig, L. Gough, R. Inouye and S. B. Cox. 2000. Patterns of species diversity and productivity at different spatial scales in herbaceous plant communities. Oikos (in press).

Hansen, M., and B. A. Richardson. 1998. A new species of Omicrus Sharp (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae) from Puerto Rico and its larva, the first known larva of Omicrini. Systematic Entomology 23:1-8.

Hendrix, P. F., S. L. Lachnicht, M. A. Callaham, Jr., and X. Zou. 1999. Stable isotopic studies of earthworm feeding ecology in tropical ecosystems of Puerto Rico. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectometry 13:1295-1299.

Heneghan, L., D. C. Coleman, X. Zou, D. A. Crossley Jr., and B. L. Haines. 1998a. Soil microarthropod community structure and litter decomposition dynamics: a study of tropical and temperate sites. Applied Soil Ecology 9:33-38.

Heneghan, L., D. C. Coleman, X. Zou, D. A. Crossley Jr., and B. L. Haines. 1998b. Soil microarthropod contributions to decomposition dynamics: tropical and temperate comparisons of a single substrate. Ecology 80:1873-1882.

Heneghan, L. D. C. Colemman, D. A. Crossley, Jr., and X. Zou. 1999. Nitrogen dynamics in decomposing chestnut oak (Quercus prinus L) in mesic temperate and tropical forest. Applied Soil Ecology 13:169-175.

Huhndorf, S. M. and D. J. Lodge. 1997. Host specificity among wood inhabiting pyrenomycetes (Fungi, Ascomycetes) in a wet tropical forest in Puerto Rico. Journal of Tropical Ecology 38:307-315.

Huhndorf, S. A. and D. J. Lodge. 2000. Neotropical Ascomycetes 9: Jobellisia species from Puerto Rico and elsewhere. Sydowia (in press).

Irons, J. G., M. W. Oswood, R. J. Stout, and C. M. Pringle. 1994. Latitudinal patterns in leaf litter breakdown: is temperature really important? Freshwater Biology 32:401-411.

Johnson, S. L., A. P. Covich, T. A. Crowl, A. Estrada-Pinto, J. Bithorn, and W. Wurtsbaugh. 1996. Do seasonality and disturbance influence reproduction in freshwater atyid shrimp in headwater streams, Puerto Rico? Verhandlungen Internationale Vereinigung Limnologie 26:2076-2081.

Johnson, K. H., K. A. Vogt, H. J. Clark, O. J. Schmitz, and D. J. Vogt. 1997. Biodiversity and the productivity and stability of ecosystems. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 11:372-377.

Johnson, K. H., K. A. Vogt, O. J. Schmitz, D. J. Vogt and H. J. Clark. 1997. Correspondence on: biodiversity and the productivity and stability of ecosystems. Letter on Stand up for parasites: reply to Windsor. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 12:32-33.

Johnson, S. L., and A. P. Covich. 2000. Day and night differences in freshwater shrimp foraging activity as related to instream flow. Regulated Rivers (in press).

Kilham, S. S. and C. M. Pringle. 2000. Food webs in two neotropical systems as revealed by stable isotope ratios. Verhandlungen Internationale Vereinigung Limnologie (in press).

Laessøe, T. and D. J. Lodge. 1994. Three host-specific Xylaria species. Mycologia 86:436-446.

Larsen, M. C. and J. E. Parks. 1997. How wide is a road? The association of roads and mass-wasting disturbance in a forested montane environment. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 22:835-848.

Larsen, M. C. and A. J. Torres Sanchez. 1998. The frequency and distribution of recent landslides in three montane tropical regions of Puerto Rico. Geomorphology 24:309-331.

Larsen, M. C., A. J. Torres-Sánchez, and I. M. Concepción. 1999. Slopewash, surface runoff, and fine-litter transport in forest and landslide scars in humid-tropical steeplands, Luquillo Experimental Forest, Puerto Rico: Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 24:481-502.

Lewis, W. M. Jr., J. M. Melack, W. H. McDowell, M. McClain, and J. E. Richey. 1999. Nitrogen yields from undisturbed watersheds in the America. Biogeochemistry 46:149-162.

Lodge, D. J. 1997. Factors related to diversity of decomposer fungi in tropical forests. Biodiversity and Conservation 6:681- 688.

Lodge, D. J., and S. Cantrell. 1995. Fungal communities in wet tropical forests: variation in time and space. Canadian Journal of Botany 73 (Suppl. 1):H5.1., S1391-1398.

Lodge, D. J., and T. Laessøe. 1995. Host preference in Camillea verruculospora. The Mycologist 9:152-153.

Lodge, D. J., W. H. McDowell, and C. P. McSwiney. 1994. The importance of nutrient pulses in tropical forests. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 9:384-387.

Lodge, D. J., P. J. Fisher, and B. C. Sutton. 1996. Endophytic fungi of Manilkara bidentata leaves in Puerto Rico. Mycologia 88:733-738.

Lodge, D. J. and T. Laessøe. 1995. Host preference in Camillea verruculospora. Mycologist 9:152-153.

Losos, J. B., and D. J. Irschick. 1996. The effect of perch diameter on escape behaviour of Anolis lizards: Laboratory predictions and field tests. Animal Behaviour 51:593-602.

Lugo, A. E. 1994. Preservation of primary forests in the Luquillo Mountains, Puerto Rico. Conservation Biology 8:1122-1131.

Lugo, A. E. 1995a. Management of tropical biodiversity. Ecological Applications 5:956-961.

Lugo, A. E. 1995b. Reconstructing hurricane passages over forests: a tool for understanding multiple-scale responses to disturbance. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 10:98-99.

Lugo, A. E. 1998. Mangrove forests: a tough system to invade but an easy one to rehabilitate. Marine Pollution Bulletin 37(8-12):427-430.

Lugo, A. E. 1999a. Comparison of island and continental ecosystems with a focus on disturbance. Acta Científica 9(2-3):129-130.

Lugo, A. E. 1999b. Ecological aspects of catastrophes in Caribbean islands. Acta Científica 2:24-31.

Lugo, A.E., and F. N. Scatena. 1996. Background and catastrophic tree mortality in tropical moist, wet, and rain forests. Biotropica 28:585-599.

Lyons, S. K., and M. R. Willig. 1999. A hemispheric assessment of scale dependence in latitudinal gradients of species richness. Ecology 80:2483-2491.

March, J. G., J. P. Benstead, C. M. Pringle, and F. N. Scatena. 1998. Migratory drift of larval amphidromous shrimps in two tropical streams, Puerto Rico. Freshwaters Biology 40:261-273.

Matson, P. A., W. H. McDowell, A. Townsend, and P. M. Vitousek. 1999. The globalization of N deposition: ecosystem consequences. Biogeochemistry 46:67-83.

McDowell, W. H. 1998. Internal nutrient fluxes in a tropical rain forest. Journal of Tropical Ecology 14:521-536.

McDowell, W. H., A. E. Lugo, and A. James. 1995. Export of nutrients and major ions from Caribbean catchments. Journal of North American Benthological Society 14:12-20.

McDowell, W. H., C. P. McSwiney, and W. B. Bowden. 1996. Effects of hurricane disturbance on groundwater chemistry and riparian function in a tropical rain forest. Biotropica 28:577-584.

Miller, O. K. Jr., D. J. Lodge , and T. J. Baroni. 2000. New and interesting ectomycorrhizal fungi from Puerto Rico, Mona and Guana Islands. Mycologia (in press).

Mount, H., W. Lynn, R. Vick, B. Dubee, and X. Zou. 1994. Mapping a long-term ecological research area in Puerto Rico. Soil Survey Horizons 35:111-121.

Myster, R. W. 1994. Landslide insects show small differences between an island (Puerto Rico) and the Mainland (Costa Rica). Acta Científica 8:105-113.

Myster, R. W. 1997. Seed predation, disease and germination on landslides in Neotropical lower montane wet forest. Journal of Vegetation Science 8:55-64.

Myster, R. W. and E. M. Everham. 1998. Germination cues across the disturbance regime in the Puerto Rican rainforest. Journal of Tropical Ecology. (in press)

Myster, R. W. and D. S. Fernández. 1995. Spatial gradient and patch structure in two Puerto Rican landslides. Biotropica 27:149-159.

Myster, R. W. and F. O. Sarmiento. 1998. Seed inputs to microsite patch recovery on two tropandean landslides in Ecuador. Restoration Ecology 6:35-43.

Myster, R. W., and L. R. Walker. 1997. Plant successional pathways on Puerto Rican landslides. Journal of Tropical Ecology 13:165-173.

Myster, R. W., J. R. Thomlinson, and M. C. Larsen. 1997. Predicting landslide vegetation in patches on landscape gradients in Puerto Rico. Landscape Ecology 12:299-307.

Olander, L., F. N. Scatena, and W. L. Silver. 1998. Effects of road construction on upper montane forest composition and succession in the Luquillo Experimental Forest, Puerto Rico. Forest Ecology and Management 109:33-49.

Opell, B. D. 1996. Functional similarities of spider webs with diverse architectures. The American Naturalist 148:630-648.

Palmer, M. A., A. P. Covich, B. J. Finlay, J. Gilbert, K. D. Hyde, R. K. Johnson, T. Kairesalo, S. Lake, C. R. Lovell, R. J. Naiman, C. Ricci, F. Sabater, and D. Strayer. 1997. Biodiversity and ecosystem processes in freshwater sediments. Ambio 26:571-577.

Parmesan, C., T. L. Root,and M. R. Willig. 2000. Impacts of extreme weather and climate on terrestrial ecosystems. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (in press).

Pegler, D. N., D. J. Lodge, and K. K. Nakasone. 1998. Macrocybe gen. nov. (Tricholomataceae, tribus Tricholomatae). Mycologia 90:494-504.

Polishook, J. D., G. F. Bills, and D. J. Lodge. 1996. Microfungi from decaying leaves of two rain forest trees in Puerto Rico. Journal of Industrial Microbiology 17:284-294.

Pringle, C. M. 1996. Atyid shrimps (Decapoda: Atyidae) influence spatial heterogeneity of algal communities over different scales in tropical montane streams, Puerto Rico. Freshwater Biology 35:125-140.

Pringle, C. M. 1997. Exploring how disturbance is transmitted upstream: going against the flow. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 16:425-438.

Pringle, C.M. 2000a. How can we effectively balance ecological values with human use of water resources on U.S. public lands?: Strengthening science-management connections. Ecological Applications (in press).

Pringle, C. M. 2000b. Riverine connectivity: Conservation and management implications for remnant natural areas in complex landscapes. Verhandlungen International Vereinigung Limnologie (in press).

Pringle, C. M., and G. A. Blake. 1994. Quantitative effects of atyid shrimp (Decapoda: Atyidae) on the depositional environment in a tropical stream: use of electricity for experimental exclusion. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Science 51:1443-1450.

Pringle, C. M., N. Hemphill, W. H. McDowell, A. Bednarek, and J. G. March. 1999. Linking species and ecosystems: different biotic assemblages cause intersteam differences in organic matter. Ecology 80:1860-1872.

Pyron, M., A. P. Covich, and R. W. Black. 1999. On the relative importance of pool morphology and woody debris to distributions of shrimp in a Puerto Rican headwater stream. Hydrobiologia 405:207-215.

Reagan, D. P. 2000a. Animal community considerations in the sustainable management of tropical forests. Journal of Tropical Ecology (in press).

Reagan, D. P. 2000b. Sustainable environmental management. Society of environmental toxicology and chemistry (in press).

Richardson, B. A. 1999. The bromeliad microcosm and the assessment of faunal diversity in a neotropical forest. Biotropica 31:321-336.

Richardson, B. A., M. J. Richardson, F. N. Scatena, and W. H . McDowell. 2000. The effects of nutrient availability and other elevational changes on bromeliad populations and the phytotelm invertebrate communities in a humid tropical forest in Puerto Rico. Journal of Tropical Ecology (in press).

Samuels, G. J., and D. J. Lodge. 1996a. Rogersonia, a new genus of the Hypocreales. Sydowia 48:250-254.

Samuels, G. J., and D. J. Lodge. 1996b. Three species of Hypocrea with stipitate stromata and Trichoderma anamorphs. Mycologia 88:302-315.

Scatena, F. N., and A. E. Lugo. 1995. Geomorphology, disturbance and the soil and vegetation of two subtropical wet steepland watersheds of Puerto Rico. Geomorphology 13:199-213.

Scatena, F. N., S. Moya, C. Estrada, and J. D. Chinea. 1996. The first five years in the reorganization of aboveground biomass and nutrient use following hurricane Hugo in the Bisley Experimental Watersheds, Luquillo Experimental Forest, Puerto Rico. Biotropica 28:424-440.

Scatena, F.N. and S.L. Johnson. 2000. Instream-flow analysis for the Luquillo Experimental Forest, Puerto Rico: methods and analysis. General Technical Report IITF-GTR-XX. International Institute of Tropical Forestry, USDA Forest Service. (in press).

Schaefer, D. A., W. H. McDowell, F. N. Scatena, and C. E. Asbury. 2000. Effects of hurricane disturbance on stream water concentrations and fluxes in eight watersheds of the Luquillo Experimental Forest, Puerto Rico. Journal of Tropical Ecology (in press).

Scheiner, S. M., S. B. Cox, M. R. Willig, G. G. Mittelbach, L. W. Osenberg and M. Kaspari. 2000. Species richness: scale effects and species-area curves. Evolutionary Ecology Research (in press).

Schowalter, T. D. 1994. Invertebrate community structure and herbivory in a tropical rain forest canopy in Puerto Rico following hurricane Hugo. Biotropica 26:312-319.

Schowalter, T. D. 1995. Canopy invertebrate community response to disturbance and consequences of herbivory in temperate and tropical forests. Selbyana 16:41-48.

Schowalter, T. D., and L. M. Ganio. 1999. Invertebrate communities in a tropical rain forest canopy in Puerto Rico following Hurricane Hugo. Ecological Entomology 24:191-201.

Schulz, M.S., and A.F. White. 1999. Chemical weathering in a tropical watershed, Luquillo Mountains, Puerto Rico: III. Quartz dissolution rates. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 63:337-350.

Secrest, M. F., M. R. Willig, and L. L. Peppers. 1996. The legacy of disturbance on habitat associations of terrestrial snails in the Luquillo Experimental Forest, Puerto Rico. Biotropica 28:502-514.

Sharpe, J. M. 1996. Growth and demography of sporophytes of Thelypteris angustifolia in the Luquillo rain forest of Puerto Rico. Pteridology in Perspective:667-668.

Sharpe, J. M. 1997. Leaf growth and demography of the rheophytic fern Thelypteris angustifolia (Willdenow) Proctor in a Puerto Rican rainforest. Plant Ecology 130:203-212.

Silver, W. L. 1994. Is nutrient availability related to plant nutrient use in humid tropical forests? Oecologia 98:336-343.

Silver, W. L. 1998. The potential effects of elevated CO2 and climate change on tropical forest biogeochemical cycling. Climatic Change 39:337-361.

Silver, W. L., F. N. Scatena, A. H. Johnson, T. G. Siccama, and M. J. Sanchez. 1994. Nutrient availability in a montane wet tropical forest: spatial patterns and methodological considerations. Plant and Soil 164:129-145.

Silver, W. L., S. Brown, and A. E. Lugo. 1996. Effects of changes in biodiversity on ecosystem function in tropical forests. Conservation Biology 10:17-24.

Silver, W. L., F. N. Scatena, A. H. Johnson, T. G. Siccama, and F. Watt. 1996. At what temporal scales does disturbance affect belowground nutrient pools? Biotropica 28:441-457.

Silver, W. L., A. E. Lugo, and M. Keller. 1999. Soil oxygen availability and biogeochemistry along rainfall and topographic gradients in upland wet tropical forest soils. Biogeochemistry 44:301-328.

Spooner, B., D. J. Lodge, and T. Laessøe. 1998. A new Sorokina (Leotiales) from Puerto Rico. Kew Bulletin 53:237-241.

Stewart, M. M. 1995. Climate driven population fluctuations in rain forest frogs. Journal of Herpetology 29:437-446.

Sullivan, N. H., W. B. Bowden, and W. H. McDowell. 1999. Short-term disappearance of foliar litter in three species before and after hurricane. Biotropica 31:382-393.

Thomlinson, J. R., M. I. Serrano, T. del M. Lopez, T. M. Aide, and J. K. Zimmerman. 1996. Land-use dynamics in a post-agricultural Puerto Rican landscape (1936-1988). Biotropica 28:525-536.

Thomlinson, J. R., P. V. Bolstad, and W. B. Cohen. 2000. Coordinating methodologies for scaling land-cover classifications from site-specific to global; steps toward validating global map products. Remote sensing of environment (in press).

Tremblay, R. L., J. K. Zimmerman, L. Lebrón, P. Bayman, I. Sastre, F. Axelrod, and J. Alers-García. 1998. Host specificity and low reproductive success in the rare endemic Puerto Rico orchid Lepanthes caritensis. Biological Conservation 85:297-304.

Vavrek, M. C., N. Fetcher, J. B. McGraw, G. R. Shaver, F. S. Chapin III, B. Bovard, and A. Gatesman. 2000. Recovery of productivity and species diversity in tussock tundra following disturbance. Arctic and Alpine Research 31 (in press).

Vogt, K. A. and B. A. Parry. 1998. Rainforests. In The New Book of Knowledge. Grolier Incorporated. Danbury, CT. p. 2.

Vogt, K. A., D. J. Vogt, S. Brown, J. P. Tilley, R. L. Edmonds, W. L. Silver, and T. G. Siccama. 1995. Dynamics of forest floor and soil organic matter accumulation in boreal, temperate, and tropical forests. Advances in Soil Science 62:159-178.

Vogt, K. A., D. J. Vogt, H. Asbjornsen, and R. A. Dahlgren. 1995. Roots, nutrients and their relationships to spatial patterns. Plant and Soil 168-169:113-123.

Vogt, K. A., D. J. Vogt, P. Boon, A. Covich, F. N. Scatena, H. Asbjornsen, L. L. O'hara, J. Pérez, T. G. Siccama, J. Bloomfield, and J. F. Ranciato. 1996. Litter dynamics along stream, riparian and upslope areas following hurricane Hugo, Luquillo Experimental Forest, Puerto Rico. Biotropica 28:458-470.

Vogt, K. A., D. J. Vogt, P. A. Palmiotto, P. Boon, J. O'Hara, and H. Absjornsen. 1996. Review of root dynamics in forest ecosystems grouped by climate, climatic forest type and species. Plant and Soil 187:159-219.

Vogt, K. A., D. J. Vogt, and J. Bloomfield. 1998. Comparison of direct and indirect methods for studying root dynamics of forests. Plant and Soil 200:71-89.

Vogt, K.A., B. Larson, J.C. Gordon, D.J. Vogt, and A. Fanzeres. 1999. Forest Certification: Roots, Issues, Challenges and Benefits. CRC Press, Boca Raton.

vonFisher, J. C., and L. L. Tieszen. 1995. Carbon isotope characterization of vegetation and soil organic matter in subtropical forests in Luquillo, Puerto Rico. Biotropica 27:138-148.

Wagner, R., and E. C. Masteller. 1996. New moth flies (Diptera: Psychodidae) and a key to species from Puerto Rico. Proceedings of Entomological Society of Washington 98:450-464.

Waide, R. B., J. K. Zimmerman, and F. N. Scatena. 1998. Controls of primary productivity: lessons from the Luquillo mountains in Puerto Rico. Ecology 79:31-37.

Waide, R. B., M. R. Willig, G. Mittelbach, C. Steiner, L. Gough, S. I. Dodson, G. P. Gudy, and R. Parmenter. 1999. The relationship between primary productivity and species richness. Annual Reviews of Ecology and Systematics 30:257-300.

Walker, L. R. 1994. Effects of fern thickets on woodlands development on landslides in Puerto Rico. Journal of Vegetation Science 5:525-532.

Walker, L. R. 1995. Timing of post-hurricane tree mortality in Puerto Rico. Journal of Tropical Ecology 11:315-320.

Walker, L. R. 2000. Seedling and sapling dynamics in treefall pits in Puerto Rico. Biotropica (in press).

Walker, L. R., and W. Boneta. 1995. Plant and soil responses to fire on a fern covered landslide in Puerto Rico. Journal of Tropical Ecology 11:473-479.

Walker, L. R., J. K. Zimmerman, D. J. Lodge, and S. Guzman-Grajales. 1996. An altitudinal comparison of growth and species composition in hurricane-damaged forests in Puerto Rico. Journal of Ecology 84:877-889.

Walker, L. R., D. J. Zarin, N. Fetcher, R. W. Myster, and A. H. Johnson. 1996. Ecosystem development and plant succession on landslides in the Caribbean. Biotropica 28:566-576.

White, A. F, A. E. Blum, M. S. Schulz, D. V. Vivit, D. A. Stonestrom, M. C. Larsen, S. F. Murphy, and D. Eberl. 1998. Chemical weathering in a tropical watershed, Luquillo Mountains, Puerto Rico: I. Long-term versus short-term weathering fluxes. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 62:209-226.

Willig, M. R., and S. K. Lyons. 1998. An analytical model of latitudinal gradients of species richness with an empirical test for marsupials and bats in the New World. Oikos 81:93-98.

Willig, M. R., D. L. Moorehead, S. B. Cox, and J. C. Zak. 1996. Functional diversity of soil bacteria communities in the tabonuco forest: The interaction of anthropogenic and natural disturbance. Biotropica 28:471- 483.

Willig, M. R., E. A. Sandlin, and M. R. Gannon. 1998. Structural and taxonomic correlates of habitat selection by a Puerto Rican land snail. Southwestern Naturalist 43:70-79.

Woolbright, L. L. 1996. Disturbance influences long-term population patterns in the Puerto Rican frog, Eleutherodactylus coqui (Anura: Leptodactylidae). Biotropica 28:493-501.

Woolbright, L. L. 1997. Local extinctions of anuran amphibians in the Luquillo Experimental Forest of Northeasthern Puerto Rico. Journal of Herpetology 31:572-576.

Wunderle, J. M., Jr. 1995. Responses of bird populations in a Puerto Rican forest to hurricane Hugo: the first 18 months. The Condor 97:879-896.

Zack, A. and M. C. Larsen. 1994. Island hydrology: Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. National Geographic Research and Exploration. Water Issue:126-134.

Zarin, D. J., and A. H. Johnson. 1995a. Base saturation, nutrient cation, and organic matter increases during early pedogenesis on landslide scars in the Luquillo Experimental Forest, Puerto Rico. Geoderma 65:317-330.

Zarin, D. J., and A. H. Johnson. 1995b. Nutrient accumulation during primary succession in a montane tropical forest, Puerto Rico. Soil Science Society of America Journal 59:1444-1452.

Zimmerman, J. K., E. M. Everham III, R. B. Waide, D. J. Lodge, C. M. Taylor, and N. V. L. Brokaw. 1994. Responses of tree species to hurricane winds in subtropical wet forest in Puerto Rico: implications for tropical tree life histories. Journal of Ecology 82:911-922.

Zimmerman, J. K., T. M. Aide, M. Rosario, M. Serrano, and L. Herrera. 1995. Effects of land management and a recent hurricane on forest structure and composition in the Luquillo Experimental Forest, Puerto Rico. Forest Ecology and Management 77:65-76.

Zimmerman, J. K., W. M. Pulliam, D. J. Lodge, V. Quiñones-Orfila, N. Fetcher, S. Guzmán-Grajales, J. A. Parrotta, C. E. Asbury, L. R. Walker, and R. B. Waide. 1995. Nitrogen immobilization by decomposing woody debris and the recovery of tropical wet forest from hurricane damage. Oikos 72:314-322.

Zimmerman, J. K., M. R. Willig, L. R. Walker, and W. L. Silver. 1996. Introduction: Disturbance and Caribbean ecosystems. Biotropica 28:414-423.

Zou, X. and M. Bashkin. 1998. Soil carbon accretion and earthworm recovery following revegetation in abandoned sugarcane fields. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 30:825-830.

Zou, X. and G. González. 1997. Changes in earthworm density and community structure during secondary succession in abandoned tropical pastures. Soil Belowground Biogeochemistry 29:627-629.

Zou, X., D. Blinkley, and B. A. Caldwell. 1995. Effects of dinitrogen-fixing trees on phosphorus biogeochemical cycling in contrasting forests. Soil Science Society of America Journal 59:1452-1458.

Zou, X., C. Zucca, R. B. Waide, and W. H. McDowell. 1995. Long-term influence of deforestation on tree species composition and litter dynamics of a tropical rain forest in Puerto Rico. Forest Ecology and Management 78:147-157.

Book Chapters

Bloomfield, J., K. A. Vogt , and P. Wargo. 1996. Tree root turnover and senescence. Pages 363-381 in Y. Wiasel, A. Eshel, and U. Kafkafi, editors. Plant roots: the hidden half. Second Edition. Marcel Dekker Inc. New York.

Boose, E. R., K. E. Chamberlin, and D. R. Foster. 1997. Reconstructing historical hurricanes. Pages 389-399 in Preprints of the 22nd Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology. American Meteorological Society, Boston, MA.

Brokaw, N. V. L., and R. Lent. 1999. Vertical structure. Pages 373-399 in Maintaining biodiversity in forest ecosystems. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge,UK.

Brokaw, N., S. Fraver, J. S. Grear, J. Thompson, J. K. Zimmerman, R. B. Waide, E. M. Everham, S. P. Hubbell, R. Condit, and R. B. Foster. 2000. Disturbance and canopy structure in two tropical forests. In E. Losos, R. Condit and J. LaFrankie, editors. Tropical forest diversity and dynamism. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC (in press).

Camilo, G. R., and X. Zou. 2000. Soil fauna in managed forests: lessons from the Luquillo Experimental Forest, Puerto Rico. Chapter 13 in A. Grajal, R. Fimble and J. Robinson, editors. Effects of logging in the Tropics. Oxford University Press, Oxford (in press).

Covich, A. P. 1999. Leaf litter processing: The importance of species diversity in stream ecosystems. Pages 15-20 in N. Friberg and J. D. Carol, editors. Biodiversity in benthic ecology. Proceedings from the Nordic Benthological Meeting, National Environmental Research Institute, Silkeborg, Denmark.

Covich, A. P., and W. H. McDowell. 1996. The stream community. Pages 433-459 in D. P. Reagan and R. B. Waide, editors. The food web of a tropical rain forest. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois.

Covich, A. P., T. A. Crowl, S. L. Johnson, and F. N. Scatena. 1998. Drought effects on pool morphology and neotropical stream benthos. Pages 91-96 in Segarra-García, R.I., editor. Tropical hydrology and caribbean water resources, Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Water Resources. Technical Publication 98-2. American Water Resources Association, Herndon, Virginia.

Crowder, L. B., D. P. Reagan, and D. W. Freckman. 1995. Food dynamics and applied problems. Pages 327-455 in K. Winemiller and G. Polis, editors. Food webs: integration of patterns and dynamics. Chapman and Hall, New York.

Everham, E. M., III. 1994. A comparison of methods for quantifying catastrophic wind damage to forest. Pages 340-357 in M. P. Coutts and J. Grace, editors. Wind and trees. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England.

Fetcher, N., S. Wen, A. Montaña, and F. de Castro. 1999. Photosynthesis response to light and CO2 and chlorophyll fluorescence of hybrid mahogany (Swietenia mahogani x macrophylla) grown under contrasting light regimes. In J. Figueroa, editor. Biology, ecology and management of Mahogany. Ecological Studies Series. Springer Verlag (in press).

Foster, D. R., and E. R. Boose. 1995. Hurricane disturbance regimes in temperate and tropical forest ecosystems. Chapter 18 in M. P. Coutts and J. Grace, editors. Wind and trees. Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK.

Gannon, M. R., and M. R. Willig. 1998. Long-term monitoring protocol for bats: Lessons from the Luquillo Experimental Forest of Puerto Rico. Pages 271- 291 in F. Dallmeier and J. Comisky, editors. Forest biodiversity in North, Central, and South America and the Caribbean: research and monitoring Volume 21., UNESCO and The Parthenon Press, Carnforth, Lancashire, UK.

García-Martinó, A. R., G. S. Warner, F. N. Scatena, and D. L. Civco. 1996. GIS prediction of rainfall and runoff volumes in eastern Puerto Rico. Pages 417- 426 in C. A. Hallam, J. M. Salisbury, K. J. Lanfear and W. A. Battaglin, editors. GIS and Water Resources. Proceedings of the AWRA Annual Symposium, GIS and Water Resources, American Water Resources Association, Herndon, Virginia.

Garrison, R. W., and M. R. Willig. 1996. Arboreal invertebrates. Pages 183-271 in D. P. Reagan and R. B. Waide, editors. The food web of a tropical rain forest. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois.

Groffman, P., E. Holland, D. Myrold, P. Robertson, and X. Zou. 1998. Denitrification. Pages 272-288 in G. P. Robertson, D. C. Coleman, C. Bledsoe, and P. Sollins, editors. Standard soil methods for long-term ecological research. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK.

Larsen, M.C. 1995. Use of seismic refraction techniques for investigating recent landslides in a tropical rain forest in Puerto Rico. Pages 411- 414 in R.L. Miller, J. A. Escalante, J. A. Reinemund, and M. J. Bergin, editors. Energy and mineral potential of the Central American Caribbean regions, Springer-Verlag, Berlin.

Lawrence, W. T. 1994. Using remotely sensed data and GIS to map hurricane damage in tropical forests. In A. J. R. Gillespie, editor. Remote sensing for tropical forest assessment. General Technical Report SO-113. Southern Forest Experiment Station, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Lawrence, W. T. 1996. Plants: the food base. Pages 17-51 in D. P. Reagan and R. B. Waide, editors. The food web of tropical rain forest. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois.

Lodge, D. J. 1996a. Fungi of Puerto Rico and the United States Virgin Islands. A history of previous surveys, current status, and the future. Pages 123-129 in Figueroa-Colón, editor. The scientific survey of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. An eighty-year reassessment of the islands natural history. Annuals of the New York Academy of Science, New York.

Lodge, D. J. 1996b. Microorganisms. Pages 53-108 in D. P. Reagan and R. B. Waide, editors. The food web of a tropical rain forest. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois.

Lodge, D. J., I. Chapela, G. Samuels, F. A. Uecker, D. Desjardin, E. Horak, O. K. Miller Jr., G. L. Hennbert, C. A. Decock, J. Ammirati, H. H. Burdsall Jr., P. M. Kirk, D. W. Minter, R. Halling, T. Laessoe, G. Mueller, F. Oberwinkler, D. N. Pegler, B. Spooner, R. H. Petersen, J. D. Rogers, L. Ryvarden, R. Watling, E. Tunbull, and A. J. S. Whalley. 1995. A survey of patterns in fungal diversity. Pages 157-173 in C. Scheldegger and P. Wolseley, editors. Lichen Conservation. Proceedings of the symposium "Lichens - a strategy for conservation". September 1994. Vancouver. Mitteilungen der Eidgenossischen Forschungsanstalt fur Wald, Schneeund Landschaft Volume 70.

Lodge, D. J., D. L. Hawksworth, and B. J. Ritchie. 1996. Microbial diversity and tropical forest functioning. Pages 69-10 in G. Orians, R. Dirzo and H. Cushman, editors. Biodiversity and ecosystem processes in tropical forests. Springer Verlag, Berlin.

Lugo, A. E. 1995. Tropical forests: their future and our future. Chapter 1 in A. E. Lugo and C. Lowe, editors. Tropical forests: management and ecology. Springer Verlag, New York.

Lugo, A. E., and S. Brown. 1996. Management of land and species richness in the tropics. Pages 280-295 in R. C. Szaro and D. W. Johnston, editors. Biodiversity in managed landscapes: theory and practice. Oxford University Press, New York.

Lugo, A. E., and S. Fu. 2000. Structure and dynamics of mahogany plantations in Puerto Rico. In Figueroa Colon, editor. Biology, ecology and management of Mahogany. Springer Verlag, (in press).

Lugo, A. E., and F. N. Scatena. 1995. Ecosystem-level properties of the Luquillo Experimental Forest, with emphasis on the tabonuco forest. Chapter 4 in A. E. Lugo and C. Lowe, editors. Tropical forests: management and ecology. Springer-Verlag, New York.

Lugo, A. E., and J. Zimmerman. 2000. Ecological life histories of tropical trees with emphasis on disturbance effect. In J. Vozzo, editor. Tropical tree seed manual. USDA Forest Service (in press).

Lugo, A. E., A. Bokkestijn, and F. N. Scatena. 1995. Structure, succession, and soil chemistry of palm forests in the Luquillo Experimental Forest. Chapter 6 in A. E. Lugo and C. Lowe, editors. Tropical forests: management and ecology. Springer-Verlag, New York.

McMahan, E. A. 1996. Termites. Pages 109-135 in D. P. Reagan and R. B. Waide, editors. The food web of a tropical rain forest. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois.

Miller, R. M., and D. J. Lodge. 1997. Fungal responses to disturbance-agriculture and forestry. Pages 65-84 in K. Esser, P. A. Lemke and D. T. Wicklow, editors. Environmental and microbial relationships, Springer Verlag.

Pfeiffer, W. J. 1996a. Arboreal arachnids. Pages 247-271 in D. P. Reagan and R. B. Waide, editors. The food web of a tropical rain forest. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois.

Pfeiffer, W. J. 1996b. Litter invertebrates. Pages 137-181 in D. P. Reagan and R. B. Waide, editors. The food web of a tropical rain forest. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois.

Pringle, C.M. 1997a. Expanding scientific research programs to address conservation challenges in freshwater systems. Pages 305- 319 in Pickett, S. T. A., R. S. Ostfeld, M. Sashak, and G.E. Likens, editors. Enhancing the ecological basis of conservation: heterogeneity, ecosystem function and biodiversity. Proceedings of the Sixth Cary Conference, Institute of Ecosystem Studies. Chapman and Hall, New York.

Pringle, C. M. 1997b. Fragmentation in stream ecosystems. Pages 289-290 in G. K. Meffe and C. R. Carroll, editors. Principles of conservation biology, Second Edition. Sinauer Associates Inc., Sunderland, MA.

Pringle, C. M. 2000. River conservation in tropical versus temperate regions. In P. J. Boon and B. Davis, editors. Global perspectives on river conservation: Science policy and practice (in press).

Pringle, C. M., and F. N. Scatena. 1999a. Aquatic ecosystem deterioration in Latin American and the Caribbean. Chapter 12 in Hatch, L. U. and M. E. Swisher, editors. Managed ecosystems: the Mesoamerican experience. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK.

Pringle, C. M., and F. N. Scatena. 1999b. Freshwater resource development: case studies from Puerto Rico and Costa Rica. Chapter 13 in Hatch, L. U. and M. E. Swisher, editors. Tropical managed ecosystems: the Mesoamerican experience. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK.

Pringle, C. M., F. N. Scatena, P. Paaby, and M. Nuñez. 2000. Conservation of aquatic ecosystems of Latin America and the Caribbean. In P. J. Boon and B. Davies, editors. Global perspectives on river conservation: Science policy and practice. John Wiley and Sons (in press).

Reagan, D. P. 1995. Lizard ecology in the canopy of an island rain forest. Chapter 7 in M. Lowman and N. Nadkarni, editors. Forest canopies. Academic Press, Inc., Orlando, Florida.

Reagan, D. P. 1996a. Anoline lizards. Pages 321-345 in D. P. Reagan and R. B. Waide, editors. The food web of a tropical rain forest. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois.

Reagan, D.P. 1996b. The role of amphibians and reptiles in a West Indian rain forest food web. Pages 217-227 in R. Powell and R. W. Henderson, editors. Contributions to West Indian herpetology: a tribute to Albert Schwartz. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles. Contributions to Herpetology, Ithaca, New York.

Reagan, D. P., G. Camilo, and R. B. Waide. 1996. The community food web: major properties and patterns of organization. Pages 461-510 in D. P. Reagan and R. B. Waide, editors. The food web of a tropical rain forest. University of Chicago Press, Illinois.

Scatena, F. N. 1995. Relative scales of time and effectiveness of watershed processes in a tropical montane rain forest of Puerto Rico. Pages 103-111 in J. E. Costa, A. J. Miller, K. W. Potter and P. Wilcoch, editors. Natural and anthropogenic influences in fluvial geomophology. American Geophysical Union Press.

Schowalter, T.D. and M.D. Lowman. 1999. Forest herbivory by insects. Pages 253-270 in L.R. Walker, editor. Ecosystems of disturbed ground. Elsevier, Amsterdam.

Silver, W. L., and A. E. Lugo. 1995a. Life in the cloud forest. Chapter 2 in R. Folch, editor. Biosfera 2 selvas tropicales. Enciclopedia Catalana. Barcelona, Spain.

Silver, W. L, and A. E. Lugo . 1995b. The kingdom of epiphytes. In R. Folch, editor. Biosfera 2 selvas tropicales. Enciclopedia Catalana. Barcelona, Spain.

Silver, W. L., S. Brown, and A. E. Lugo. 1996. Biodiversity and biogeochemical cycles. Pages 49-67 in G. Orians, R. Dirzo and H. Cushman, editors. Biodiversity and ecosystem processes in tropical forests. Springer Verlag, New York.

Stewart, M. M., and L. L. Woolbright. 1996. Amphibians. Pages 273-320 in D. P. Reagan and R. B. Waide, editors. The food web of a tropical rain forest. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois.

Taylor, C. M., S. Silander, R. B. Waide, and W. J. Pfeiffer. 1995. Recovery of a tropical forest after gamma irradiation: a 23-year chronicle. Chapter 10 in A. E. Lugo and C. Lowe, editors. Tropical forests: management and ecology. Springer Verlag, New York.

Thomas, R., and A. G. Kessler. 1996. Nonanoline reptiles. Pages 347-362 in D. P. Reagan and R. B. Waide, editors. The food web of a tropical rain forest. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois.

Vogt, K. A., H. Asbjornsen, A. Ercelawn, F. Montagnini, and M. Valdes. 1995. Ecosystem integration of roots and mycorrhizas in plantations. In S. Nambiar, A. Brown and C. Cossalter, editors. Management of soil, water and nutrients in tropical plantation forests. ACIAR.

Vogt, K., D. Vogt, S. Brown, J. Tilley, R. Edmonds, W. Silver and T. Siccama. 1995. Forest floor and soil organic matter contents and factors controlling their accumulation in boreal, temperate and tropical forests. Pages 159-178 in R. Lal, J. Kimble, E. Levine and B. A. Stewart, editors. Advances in soil science - soil management and greenhouse effect. CRC, Lewis Publishers, Boca Raton.

Vogt, K. A., D. J. Vogt, H. Asbjornsen, and R. A. Dahlgren. 1995 . Roots, nutrients and their relationships to spatial patterns. Pages 113-123 in L. O. Nilsson, R. F. Huttle and U. T. Johansson, editors. Nutrient uptake and cycling in forest ecosystems volume developments in plant and soil science. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, Boston.

Vogt, K.A., H. Asbjornsen, A. Ercelawn, F. Montagnini, and M. Valdés. 1997. Roots and Mycorrhizas in Plantation Ecosystems. Pages 247-296 in E.K.S. Nambiar , and A.G. Brown, editors. Management of soil, nutrients and water in tropical plantation forests. ACIAR, CSIRO, CIFOR. Canberra, Australia.

Vogt K. A., O. Schmitz, K. H. Beard, J. O'Hara, and M. Booth. 2000. Conservation Biology - Contemporary Issues. In S. Levin, editor. Encyclopedia of biodiversity. Academic Press (in press).

Vogt K.A., H. Asbjornsen, M. Grove, H. Asbjornsen, K. Maxwell, D.J. Vogt, R. Sigurdardottir, B.C. Larson, L. Schibli and M. Dove. 2000. Linking social and natural science spatial scales. In J. Liu and W. M. Taylor, editors. Integrating Landscape Ecology into Natural Resource Management. Cambridge University Press (in press)

Waide, R. B. 1996. Birds. Pages 363-398 in D. P. Reagan and R. B. Waide, editors. The food web of a tropical rain forest. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois.

Waide, R. B., and D. P. Reagan. 1996. The rain forest setting. Pages 1-16 in D. P. Reagan and R. B. Waide, editors. The food web of a tropical rain forest. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois.

Walker, L. R. 1999. Patterns and processes in primary succession. Pages 585-610 in L. R. Walker, editor. Ecosystems of disturbed ground. Elsevier, Amsterdam.

Walker, L. R., and S. D. Smith. 1997. Impacts of invasive plants on community and ecosystem properties. Pages 69-86 in J. O. Luken and J. W. Thieret, editors. Assessment and management of plant invasions. Springer Verlag, New York.

Walker, L. R., and M. Willig. 1999. An introduction to terrestrial disturbance. Pages 1-16 in L. R. Walker, editor. Ecosystems of disturbed ground. Elsevier, Amsterdam.

Whigham, D. F., M. B. Dickinson, and N. V. L. Brokaw. 1999. Background canopy gap and catastrophic wind disturbances in tropical forests. Pages 223-252 in L. R. Walker, editor. Ecosystems of disturbed ground. Elsevier, Amsterdam.

Willig, M. R., and M. R. Gannon. 1996. Mammals. Pages 399-431 in D. P. Reagan and R. B. Waide, editors. The food web of a tropical rainforest. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois.

Willig, M. R., and M. A. McGinley. 1999. The response of animals to disturbance and their roles in patch generation. Pages 633-658 in L. R. Walker, editor. Ecosystems of disturbed ground. Elsevier, Amsterdam.

Willig, M. R., M. F. Secrest, S. B. Cox, G. R. Camilo, J. F. Cary, J. Alvarez, and M. R. Gannon. 1998. Long-term monitoring of snails in the Luquillo Experimental Forest of Puerto Rico: heterogeneity, scale, disturbance, and recovery. Pages 293-322 in F. Dallmeier and J Comisky, editors. Forest biodiversity in North, Central, and South America and the Caribbean: research and monitoring. Man and biosphere series. Parthenon Press, Washington, DC.

Willig, M., and L. R. Walker. 1999. Disturbance in terrestrial ecosystems: Salient themes, synthesis, and future directions. Pages 747-767 in L. R. Walker, editor. Ecosystems of disturbed ground. Elsevier, Amsterdam.

Zak, J. C., and M. R. Willig. 2000. Analysis and interpretation of fungal biodiversity patterns. In G. M. Mueller, G. F. Bills and M. S. Foster, editors. Measuring and monitoring biological diversity. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, DC (in press).

Zou, X. and G. González. 2000. Earthworms in tropical tree plantations. In M. V. Reddy, editor. Tropical plantation forests and their soil litter system - litter, biota and soil nutrient dynamics. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK (in press).

Theses And Dissertations

Alvarez, J. 1997. Patterns of abundance, species richness, habitat use, and morphology in tropical terrestrial molluscs: effects of disturbance and elevation. Ph.D. Dissertation. Texas Tech University.

Arnold, A.E., 1996. Influence of microenvironment on growth and nutrient dynamics if three herbaceous species in the Bisley Experimental Watersheds of the Luquillo Experimental Forest, Puerto Rico. MS Thesis, University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Buzby, K. M. 1998. The effect of disturbance on the ecological efficiency of a small tropical stream. Ph.D Dissertation of the State University of New York, College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse, New York.

Cammack, S. E. 1994. Seedling recruitment and growth on hurricane-disturbed plots in a subtropical wet forest in Puerto Rico: the role of abiotic influences in the regeneration niche. M.S. Thesis in Botany, University of Georgia, Athens.

Clark, J. J. 1996. Effects of land use change on northeastern Puerto Rican rivers. Ph.D. Dissertation, Johns Hopkins University.

Cox, S. B. 1999. Soil properties and microbial functional diversity of surface soils in the Luquillo Experimental Forest of Puerto Rico. Ph.D. Dissertation, Texas Tech University.

Doherty, S. J., 1995. EMERGY evaluations of and limits to forest production. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Florida.

Everham, E. M. III. 1996. Hurricane disturbance and recovery: An empirical and simulation study of vegetation dynamics in the Luquillo Experimental Forest, Puerto Rico. Ph.D Dissertation of the State University of New York, College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse, New York.

Fernandez del Viso, D.S. 1997. Contrasting light environments and response flexibility of trees in the Luquillo Mountains of Puerto Rico. Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Puerto Rico.

Garcia, A.R. 1996. Use of GIS for low flow prediction in humid montane regions in eastern Puerto Rico. M.S. Thesis. University of Connecticut.

Garcia Bermudez, M. A. 1995. The role of elevation and vegetation structure on upland Anolis assemblages in Puerto Rico. M.S. Thesis. University of Puerto Rico.

Garcia-Montiel, D.C. 1996. Changes in nutrient cycling during tropical deforestation. Ph.D. Dissertation, Colorado State University.

Gonser, R.A. 1996. Phylogeographic variation of the Puerto Rican frog. Ph.D. Dissertation, State University of New York at Albany.

Hammond, E.P. 1996. Regeneration of understory shrubs in the Luquillo Experimental Forest, Puerto Rico. M.S. Thesis. University of Georgia.

Header, M.T. 1998. Time series analysis of shrimp densities in a Puerto Rican stream. M.S. Thesis. Utah State University.

Heyne, C. M. 1999. Soil and vegetation recovery on abandoned paved roads in a humid tropical rain forest, Puerto Rico. M.S. Thesis, University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Holwerda, F. 1997. A study of evaporation from lowland and montane tropical rain forest. M.S. Thesis. Vridje Universiteit, Amsterdam.

Kent, R. Seedling survival and colonizing vegetation in wetland plots receiving pig wastes in Puerto Rico. M.S. Thesis. University of Florida.

Kharecha, P. 1997. Energy evaluation of the effects of human activities on Luquillo Experimental Forest, Puerto Rico. M.S. Thesis. University of Florida.

Leigh, L. S. 1999. The basis for rainforest diversity and biosphere. Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Florida.

Marley, D. P. 1998. Spatial modeling of climate and photosynthesis in the Luquillo Experimental Forest, Puerto Rico. M.S Thesis of the State University of New York, College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse, New York.

McSwiney, C.P. 1999. Controls on spatial and temporal variability in nitrous oxide fluxes across a tropical rainforest ecosystem in the Luquillo Experimental Forest, Puerto Rico. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH.

O'Connor, Paul J. 1998. Habitat selection in insular tropical streams: macroinvertebrate responses to a riparian invasion by non-indigenous bamboo. M.S. Thesis, Colorado State University.

Quinones Orfila, V. 1997. Estimates of leaf area index from physical parameters and remote sensing data over the Luquillo Experimental Forest. M.S. Thesis. University of Puerto Rico.

Reed, Angela M. 1998. Scale-dependent influences of riparian processes on the dominant detritivore of a headwater stream in Puerto Rico. M.S.. Thesis, Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, Colorado.

Rivera, H.D. 1999. Peak flow analysis and recession curve analysis for watersheds in the Luquillo Mountains of Puerto Rico. M.S. Thesis, University of Connecticut.

Santos-Román, D.M. 1999. Multivariate analysis of water quality and physical characteristics of selected watersheds in Puerto Rico. M.S. Thesis. University of Connecticut.

Secrest, M.F. 1995. The impact of Hurricane Hugo on two common tree snails: a long-term study. M.S. Thesis. Texas Tech University.

Wickel, A. J. 1997. Rainfall interception modelling for two tropical forest types in the Luquillo Experiment Forest, Puerto Rico. M.S. Thesis. Vridje Universiteit, Amsterdam.

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Other Publications

Boose, E. R., K. E. Chamberlin, and D. R. Foster. 1997. Reconstructing historical hurricanes. Pages 388-389 in Preprints of the 22nd Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology.

Civco, D. L., A. R. García, and G. S. Warner. 1995. Key steps to effective watershed characterization. Geographic Information Systems World:62-67.

Hall, C. 2000. Quantifying sustainable development: The future of tropical economies. Academic Press.

Larsen, M.C., and I. M. Concepción. 1998. Water budgets of small forested and agriculturally-developed montane watershed in eastern Puerto Rico. Pages 199-204 in R.I. Segarra-García, editor. Proceedings, tropical hydrology and Caribbean water resources. American Water Resources Association, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Larsen, M. C. and R. F. Stallard. 1999. Water, energy, and biogeochemical budgets in the Luquillo mountains, Puerto Rico. U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet, FS 163-99, 4 pages.

Larsen, M. C. and A. J. Torres Sánchez. 1996. Geographic relations of landslide distribution and assessment of landslide hazards in the Blanco, Cibuco, and Coamo river basins, Puerto Rico. U.S. Geological Survey Water Resources Investigations Report:95 - 4029, 56 p.

Lugo, A. E., and C. Lowe, editors. 1995. Tropical Forests: management and ecology. Springer Verlag, New York.

Lugo, A. E., O. Ramos, S. Molina, F. N. Scatena, and L. L. Vélez-Rodríguez. 1996. A fifty-three year record of land-use change in the Guánica forest biosphere reserve and its vicinity. International Institute of Tropical Forestry, USDA Forest Service Rio Piedras, P.R. 13 p.

Lugo, A. E., J. K. Francis, and J. L. Frangi. 1999. Prestoea montana (R. Graham) Nichols. Palmaceae Palm family. Silvics and forest trees of the American tropics. USDA Forest Service Southern Forest Experiment Station SO-IITF-SM-82. 9 p.

Pringle, C. M. 1997b. Expanding scientific research programs to address conservation challenges in freshwater systems. Pages 305-319 in S. T. A. Pickett, R. S. Ostfeld, M. Sashak and G. E. Likens, editors. Enhancing the ecological basis of conservation: heterogeneity, ecosystem function and biodiversity. Proceedings of the Sixth Cary Conference, Institute of Ecosystem Studies. Chapman and Hall, New York.

Schowalter, T. D. 2000. Insect Ecology: an ecosystem approach. Academic Press, San Diego. 483 pp.

Reagan, D. P., and R. B. Waide. 1996. The food web of a tropical rain forest. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois.

Soil Survey Staff. 1995. Order I soil survey of the Luquillo Long-Term Ecological Research grid, Puerto Rico. USDA-NRCS, Lincoln, NE.

Vogt, K. A., J. C. Gordon, J. P. Wargo, D. J. Vogt, H. Asbjornsen, P. A. Palmiotto, H. J. Clark, J. L. O'Hara, W. S. Keaton, T. Patel-Weynand, and E. Witten. 1997. Ecosystems: balancing science with management. Springer Verlag, New York.

Vogt, K. A., B.Brooke, and A. Parry. 1998. Rainforests. Page 2 in The new book of knowledge. Grolier Incorporated. Danbury, CT.

Vogt K.A., D. J. Vogt, P. Boon, A. Fanzeres, P. Wargo, P. A. Palmiotto, B. Larson, J. L. O'Hara, T. Patel-Weynand, E. Cuadrado, and J. Berry. 1999. A non-value based framework for assessing ecosystem integrity. Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR-461. Portland, OR. USDA, For. Service, Pacfic Northwest Res. Sta.

Walker, L. R. 1994. Field trips as a teaching tool. Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America 75: 22-23.

Walker, L. R., editor. 1999. Ecosystems of disturbed ground. Elsevier, Amsterdam. 868 pp.

Walker, L. R. 2000. Major contributor of entries for: Calow, P., editor in chief, The Encyclopedia of Ecology and Environmental Management, Blackwell (in press).

Walker, L. R., W. L. Silver, M. R. Willig , and J. K. Zimmerman, editors. 1996. Special Issue: Long-Term responses of Caribbean ecosystems to disturbance. Biotropica 28 :414-614.

Watt, F., R. Beymer, F. N. Scatena, W. L. Silver, P. L. Weaver, and L. S. Hamilton. 1994. Tropical montane cloud forest literature. In L. S. Hamilton, F. N. Scatena and J. Juvik, editors. Tropical montane cloud forests. Proceedings of an International Symposium. East-West Center Publications, Honolulu, Hawaii.