Hurricanes are complex disturbance systems with significant effects on vegetation and built-
up land. This paper summarizes research on the effects and outcomes of hurricanes on …

Is active restoration the best approach to achieve ecological restoration success (the return
to a reference condition, that is, old-growth forest) when compared to natural regeneration in …

For decades, conservation and research initiatives in tropical forests have focused almost
exclusively on old-growth forests because scientists believed that these “pristine” …

Land-use history interacts with natural forces to influence the severity of disturbance events
and the rate and nature of recovery processes in tropical forests. Although we are far from an …

Recognition of the importance of land-use history and its legacies in most ecological
systems has been a major factor driving the recent focus on human activity as a legitimate …

Hurricanes represent an important natural disturbance process to tropical and temperate
forests in many coastal areas of the world. The complex patterns of damage created in …

The structure and dynamics of small plantations of pine (Pinus caribaea; 4 and 18.5 yr old in
1980) and mahogany (Swietenia macrophylla; 17 and 49 yr old in 1980) were compared …

The process of tree mortality has dimensions of intensity, spatial, and temporal scales that
reflect the characteristics of endogenic processes (ie, senescence) and exogenic …

Landslides are common in steep mountainous areas of Puerto Rico where mean annual
rainfall and the frequency of intense storms are high. Each year, landslides cause extensive …

Anthropogenic alteration of the landscape is a long-term disturbance both in duration and
consequences. This study addresses land-cover responses to a history of human land use …