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Growth Rates of Tree Height Six Years after Hurricane Damage at Four Localities in Eastern Nicaragua 1
Author(s) -
Vandermeer John,
Brenner Andrew,
Cerda Iñigo Granzow
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
biotropica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.813
H-Index - 96
eISSN - 1744-7429
pISSN - 0006-3606
DOI - 10.1111/j.1744-7429.1998.tb00090.x
Subject(s) - ecological succession , thinning , forestry , tree (set theory) , phase (matter) , geography , geology , physical geography , ecology , biology , physics , mathematics , mathematical analysis , quantum mechanics
Growth rates for 44 species of trees in a posthurricane forest in Nicaragua were measured. The pattern is consistent with the interpretation of succession as a two stage process: an initial building phase after the hurricane followed by a thinning phase. Localities that were damaged less from the hurricane are now entering the thinning phase of postdisturbance succession, while those subjected to the most severe damage appear to remain in the building phase.