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Growth Rates of Tree Height Six Years after Hurricane Damage at Four Localities in Eastern Nicaragua1

Year: 1998

Type: article

Abstract: ABSTRACT Growth rates for 44 species of trees in a posthurricane forest in Nicaragua were measured. The pattern is consistent with the interpretation of succession as a two stage process: an initial building phase after the hurricane followed by a thinning phase. Localities that were damaged less from the hurricane are now entering the thinning phase of postdisturbance succession, while those subjected to the most severe damage appear to remain in the building phase.

Source: Biotropica

DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7429.1998.tb00090.x

Authors: John Vandermeer, Andrew Brenner, Iñigo Granzow de la Cerda

Institution: University of Michigan

Language: English

Topic: Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies

Subfield: Nature and Landscape Conservation

Field: Environmental Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

SDG: Life on land

Open Access status: green

Funder: National Science Foundation