Rates of change in tree communities following major disturbances are determined by a
complex set of interactions between local site factors, landscape history and structure …

Hurricanes have visible and invisible effects on forests. The visible effects are dramatic,
noticeable over the short‐term and relatively well documented in the literature. Invisible …

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 …

The extensive literature on natural disturbance in forests is reviewed in terms of the
hypotheses:(1) that disturbance is a major force moulding the development, structure and …

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

Disturbance is a dominant factor in many ecosystems, and the disturbance regime is likely to
change over the next decades in response to land‐use changes and global warming. We …

This revision maintains the position of Forest Ecosystems as the one source for the latest
information on the advanced methods that have enhanced our understating of forest …

We review and compare well-studied examples of five large, infrequent disturbances (LIDs)—
fire, hurricanes, tornadoes, volcanic eruptions, and floods—in terms of the physical …

1 The effect of a category 4 hurricane (Hurricane Hugo, 18 September 1989) on subtropical
wet forest in Puerto Rico was examined at stand and species levels with respect to the …