scholarly journals Luquillo Experimental Forest: catchment science in the montane tropics

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
William H. McDowell ◽  
Miguel C. Leon ◽  
Michelle D. Shattuck ◽  
Jody D. Potter ◽  
Tamara Heartsill‐Scalley ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Luquillo Experimental Forest ◽  
Forest Catchment

scholarly journals Luquillo Experimental Forest: catchment science in the montane tropics

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
William McDowell ◽  
Miguel Leon ◽  
Michelle Shattuck ◽  
Jody Potter ◽  
Tamara Heartsill Scalley ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Luquillo Experimental Forest ◽  
Forest Catchment

An annotated list of the flora of the Bisley Area Luquillo Experimental Forest, Puerto Rico 1987 to 1992

1993 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jesus Danilo Chinea ◽  
Renee J. Beymer ◽  
Carlos Rivera ◽  
Ines Sastre de Jeses ◽  
F.N. Scatena
Keyword(s):  
Puerto Rico ◽  
Luquillo Experimental Forest ◽  
Annotated List

Luquillo Experimental Forest canopy trimming experiment data

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Grizelle González ◽  
Ashley E. Van Beusekom ◽  
Sarah Stankavich ◽  
Jess K. Zimmerman ◽  
Alonso Ramírez
Keyword(s):  
Forest Canopy ◽  
Experiment Data ◽  
Luquillo Experimental Forest

Sediment source apportionment following wildfire in an upland commercial forest catchment

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Enrique Muñoz-Arcos ◽  
Alejandra Castillo ◽  
Alicia Cuevas-Aedo ◽  
Luis Ovando-Fuentealba ◽  
Alex Taylor ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Source Apportionment ◽  
Sediment Source ◽  
Forest Catchment ◽  
Commercial Forest

scholarly journals Populations are not declining and food webs are not collapsing at the Luquillo Experimental Forest

2019 ◽  
Vol 116 (25) ◽  
pp. 12143-12144 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. R. Willig ◽  
L. Woolbright ◽  
S. J. Presley ◽  
T. D. Schowalter ◽  
R. B. Waide ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Food Webs ◽  
Luquillo Experimental Forest

Hurricane Impacts in New England and Puerto Rico

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emery R. Boose
Keyword(s):  
Puerto Rico ◽  
New England ◽  
Salt Water ◽  
Woody Debris ◽  
Wind Damage ◽  
River Channels ◽  
Fuel Loading ◽  
Luquillo Experimental Forest ◽  
The North ◽  
Hurricane Disturbance

Hurricanes have a profound effect on many coastal ecosystems. Direct impacts often include wind damage to trees, scouring and flooding of river channels, and salt-water inundation along shorelines (Simpson and Riehl 1981; Diaz and Pulwarty 1997). In some areas, secondary impacts may include landslides triggered by heavy rains (Scatena and Larson 1991) or catastrophic dry-season fires resulting from heavy fuel loading (Whigham in press). This chapter will focus on the longterm impacts of hurricane wind damage at two LTER sites, the Harvard Forest (HFR) in central New England and the Luquillo Experimental Forest (LUQ) in northeastern Puerto Rico. These two sites, both located in the North Atlantic hurricane basin and occasionally subject to the same storms, provide interesting examples of tropical and temperate hurricane disturbance regimes. Wind damage from a single hurricane is often highly variable (Foster 1988). Damage to individual trees can range from loss of leaves and fine branches, which can significantly alter surface nutrient inputs (Lodge et al. 1991), to bole snapping or uprooting, which can significantly alter coarse woody debris and soil microtopography (Carlton and Bazzaz 1998a and b). At the stand level, damage can range from defoliation to individual tree gaps to extensive blowdowns, creating different pathways for regeneration (Lugo 2000). At landscape and regional levels, complex patterns of damage are created by the interaction of meteorological, topographic, and biological factors (Boose et al. 1994). Adding to this spatial complexity is the fact that successive hurricanes are not necessarily independent in terms of their effects. A single storm lasting several hours may have effects that persist for decades (Foster et al. 1998). And forest susceptibility to wind damage is strongly influenced by composition and structure, which in turn are strongly influenced by previous disturbance history (Foster and Boose 1992). Thus, the impacts of a single hurricane may depend in part on the impacts of earlier storms as well as on other previous disturbances and land use. Hurricanes, like other disturbances, both create and respond to spatial heterogeneity (Turner et al. 2003). To understand the long-term ecological role of hurricanes at a given site, we must consider these three sets of questions: (1) What is the hurricane disturbance regime?

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