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A Caribbean Forest Tapestry - The Multidimensional Nature of Disturbance and Response (Hardcover, New)
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A Caribbean Forest Tapestry - The Multidimensional Nature of Disturbance and Response (Hardcover, New)
Series: The Long-Term Ecological Research Network Series
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Global change threatens ecosystems worldwide, and tropical systems
with their high diversity and rapid development are of special
concern. We can mitigate the impacts of change if we understand how
tropical ecosystems respond to disturbance. For tropical forests
and streams in Puerto Rico this book describes the impacts of, and
recovery from, hurricanes, landslides, floods, droughts, and human
disturbances in the Luquillo Mountains of Puerto Rico. These
ecosystems recover quickly after natural disturbances, having been
shaped over thousands of years by such events. Human disturbance,
however, has longer-lasting impacts. Chapters are by authors with
many years of experience in Puerto Rico and other tropical areas
and cover the history of research in these mountains, a framework
for understanding disturbance and response, the environmental
setting, the disturbance regime, response to disturbance, biotic
mechanisms of response, management implications, and future
directions. The text provides a strong perspective on tropical
ecosystem dynamics over multiple scales of time and space.
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