Book ID: 101612
Brokaw, Nicholas, Todd Crowl, Ariel Lugo, William McDowell and Frederick SCATENA
A Caribbean Forest Tapestry. A Multidimensional Nature of Disturbance and Response. 2012. (The Long-Term Ecological Research Network Series). 464 p. gr8vo. Hardcover.
These ecosystems recover quickly after naturaldisturbances, 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.