Patch dynamics and community metastability of a subtropical forest: compound effects of natural disturbance and human land use
| العنوان: | Patch dynamics and community metastability of a subtropical forest: compound effects of natural disturbance and human land use |
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| المؤلفون: | Nicholas Brokaw, María Uriarte, Jill Thompson, Liza S. Comita, Jess K. Zimmerman |
| المصدر: | Landscape Ecology. 25:1099-1111 |
| بيانات النشر: | Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2010. |
| سنة النشر: | 2010 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Geography, Ecology, Forest dynamics, Community, Patch dynamics, Geography, Planning and Development, Plant community, Ecological succession, Understory, Quadrat, Landscape ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation |
| الوصف: | Where large disturbances do not cause landscape-wide mortality and successional change, forested ecosystems should exhibit landscape metastability (landscape equilibrium) at a scale equal to the dominant patch size of disturbance and recovery within the landscape. We investigated this in a 16-ha contiguous plot of subtropical wet forest in Puerto Rico, the Luquillo Forest Dynamics Plot (LFDP), which experienced two major hurricanes during the 15-year study and has a land use history (logging and agriculture 40 or more years hence) that differs in intensity between two areas of the plot. Using he LFDP as our “landscape,” we studied the spatial pattern of community change through time (3–5 year intervals) by calculating community dissimilarity between tree censuses for two size classes of trees (1 to |
| تدمد: | 1572-9761 0921-2973 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s10980-010-9486-x |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::3b1fa947681e50c2a5efa29f34ce02ca https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-010-9486-x |
| Rights: | CLOSED |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsair.doi...........3b1fa947681e50c2a5efa29f34ce02ca |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 15729761 09212973 |
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| DOI: | 10.1007/s10980-010-9486-x |