HURRICANES, HUMANS, AND FUTURE ECOSYSTEMS

HURRICANES, HUMANS, AND FUTURE ECOSYSTEMS

By developing a model that simulates how forests react to multiple disturbances, scientists at Luquillo LTER found that interactions between hurricane and human impacts lead to forests with new

Land use history, environment, and tree composition in a tropical forest
A maximum-likelihood, spatially explicit analysis of tree growth and survival in a tropical forest
Natural disturbance and human land use as determinants of tropical forest dynamics: results from a forest simulator

Sawyers in the Luquiilo Mountains in the early 20th Century. (Photo courtesy of the USDA Forest Service, International Institute of Tropical Forestry.)

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Sawyers in the Luquiilo Mountains in the early 20th Century. (Photo courtesy of the USDA Forest Service, International Institute of Tropical Forestry.)

Land use history and current distribution of D. excelsa and C. arborea species on the Luquillo Forest Dynamics Plot, Puerto Rico

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Land use history and current distribution of D. excelsa and C. arborea species on the Luquillo Forest Dynamics Plot, Puerto Rico