Tropical cyclones are increasing in intensity and size and, thus, are poised to increase in
importance as disturbance agents. Our understanding of cyclone ecology is biased towards …

Wind has long been regarded as an important ecological factor in forests owing to the
dramatic damage hurricanes can wreak. However, the long-term wind regime of a site also …

Terrestrial organisms and ecosystems are being exposed to new and rapidly changing
combinations of solar UV radiation and other environmental factors because of ongoing …

Traditional infrastructure adaptation to extreme weather events (and now climate change)
has typically been techno‐centric and heavily grounded in robustness—the capacity to …

The role of the world's forests as a “sink” for atmospheric carbon dioxide is the subject of
active debate. Long-term monitoring of plots in mature humid tropical forests concentrated in …

The literature on the effects of catastrophic wind disturbance (windstorms, gales, cyclones,
hurricanes, tornadoes) on forest vegetation is reviewed to examine factors controlling the …

An increasing number of studies in a wide range of natural systems have investigated how
pulses of resource availability influence ecological processes at individual, population, and …

Global climate change is expected to affect temperature and precipitation patterns, oceanic
and atmospheric circulation, rate of rising sea level, and the frequency, intensity, timing, and …

Despite the ubiquity of tropical cyclones and their impacts on forests, little is known about
how tropical cyclone regimes shape the ecology and evolution of tree species. We used a …

Cyclonic storms, variously called typhoons, cyclones, or hurricanes (henceforth, hurricanes),
are common in many parts of the world, where their frequent occurrence can have both …