scholarly journals The demography of hurricane effects on two coral populations differing in dynamics

Ecosphere ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (9) ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter J. Edmunds
Keyword(s):  
Hurricane Effects

Study on Roof Vents Subjected to Simulated Hurricane Effects

2011 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 158-165 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arindam Gan Chowdhury ◽  
Girma T. Bitsuamlak ◽  
Tuan-Chun Fu ◽  
Peeyush Kawade
Keyword(s):  
Hurricane Effects ◽  
Roof Vents

Hurricane effects on surface gulf stream currents

1987 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 165-180
Author(s):  
John D. Wang
Keyword(s):  
Gulf Stream ◽  
Hurricane Effects

scholarly journals Hurricane effects on Neotropical lizards span geographic and phylogenetic scales

2020 ◽  
Vol 117 (19) ◽  
pp. 10429-10434 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colin M. Donihue ◽  
Alex M. Kowaleski ◽  
Jonathan B. Losos ◽  
Adam C. Algar ◽  
Simon Baeckens ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Biodiversity Patterns ◽  
Island Populations ◽  
Extreme Climate Events ◽  
Extreme Climate ◽  
Hurricane Effects ◽  
Selective Forces ◽  
Hurricane Activity ◽  
Climate Events ◽  
Two Populations

Extreme climate events such as droughts, cold snaps, and hurricanes can be powerful agents of natural selection, producing acute selective pressures very different from the everyday pressures acting on organisms. However, it remains unknown whether these infrequent but severe disruptions are quickly erased by quotidian selective forces, or whether they have the potential to durably shape biodiversity patterns across regions and clades. Here, we show that hurricanes have enduring evolutionary impacts on the morphology of anoles, a diverse Neotropical lizard clade. We first demonstrate a transgenerational effect of extreme selection on toepad area for two populations struck by hurricanes in 2017. Given this short-term effect of hurricanes, we then asked whether populations and species that more frequently experienced hurricanes have larger toepads. Using 70 y of historical hurricane data, we demonstrate that, indeed, toepad area positively correlates with hurricane activity for both 12 island populations of Anolis sagrei and 188 Anolis species throughout the Neotropics. Extreme climate events are intensifying due to climate change and may represent overlooked drivers of biogeographic and large-scale biodiversity patterns.

Re-Survey of Hurricane Effects on the British Honduras Reefs and Cays

Nature ◽  
1965 ◽  
Vol 207 (4997) ◽  
pp. 589-592 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. R. STODDART
Keyword(s):  
British Honduras ◽  
Hurricane Effects

Liana dynamics reflect land-use history and hurricane response in a Puerto Rican forest

2017 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 155-164 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Aaron Hogan ◽  
Silvette Mayorquín ◽  
Katherine Rice ◽  
Jill Thompson ◽  
Jess K. Zimmerman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
High Intensity ◽  
Forest Tree ◽  
Fruit Production ◽  
Canopy Openness ◽  
Low Intensity ◽  
Hurricane Effects ◽  
Density And Biomass ◽  
Subtropical Wet Forest ◽  
Tree Stem

Abstract:We studied lianas in a subtropical wet forest in Puerto Rico to understand how hurricane impacts and past human land-uses interact to affect liana dynamics over a 14-year period. We compared a high-intensity land-use area, where the forest that had been cleared, and used for subsistence agriculture before being abandoned in 1934 then regrew to a low-intensity land-use area, in which there had been only some selective experimental logging by the USDA Forest Service in the 1940s. Prior to our study, both areas were strongly affected by Hurricane Hugo in 1989, and again damaged to a lesser degree by Hurricane Georges in 1998, increasing canopy openness and subsequently increasing tree stem densities. Between 2001 and 2015, changes in the light environment and the recovery of forest structure resulted in roughly a 50% reduction in tree stem densities in the high-intensity land-use area, as recruited saplings naturally thinned. In this area, liana abundance increased by 103%, liana biomass tripled, and occupancy of trees by lianas grew by nearly 50%. In the low-intensity land-use area, juvenile stem densities were stable, and resultantly liana abundance only increased by 33%, liana biomass rose 39%, and the occupancy of trees was constant. Liana flower and fruit production increased over the 14-year interval, and these increases were much greater in the high-intensity land-use quadrats. Results of this study do show how rapid forest tree successional dynamics coincide with liana increases, but the confounding of hurricane effects of disturbance at our site, prevent us from asserting that the increases in liana density and biomass can be attributed to the same causes as those in forests elsewhere in the Neotropics.

Hurricane Effects on Forest Ecosystems in the Caribbean

Biotropica ◽  
1991 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 513 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. V. J. Tanner ◽  
V. Kapos ◽  
J. R. Healey
Keyword(s):  
Forest Ecosystems ◽  
Hurricane Effects ◽  
The Caribbean
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