Journal
FORESTS
Volume 10, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/f10030210
Keywords
Luquillo Experimental Forest; tropical; experiments; manipulations; large-scale; Puerto Rico; Caribbean
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Funding
- U.S. Department of Energy Terrestrial Ecosystem Sciences Program [DE-SC-0011806, 89243018S-SC-000014]
- U.S. Geological Survey
- NSF Luquillo Critical Zone Observatory [EAR-1331841]
- LTER program [DEB1239764]
- NSF [DEB-1457805]
- DOE [TES-DE-FOA-0000749]
- USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture, McIntire Stennis project [CA-B-ECO-7673-MS]
- USDA Forest Service's International Institute of Tropical Forestry (IITF)
- University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras
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There is a long history of experimental research in the Luquillo Experimental Forest in Puerto Rico. These experiments have addressed questions about biotic thresholds, assessed why communities vary along natural gradients, and have explored forest responses to a range of both anthropogenic and non-anthropogenic disturbances. Combined, these studies cover many of the major disturbances that affect tropical forests around the world and span a wide range of topics, including the effects of forest thinning, ionizing radiation, hurricane disturbance, nitrogen deposition, drought, and global warming. These invaluable studies have greatly enhanced our understanding of tropical forest function under different disturbance regimes and informed the development of management strategies. Here we summarize the major field experiments that have occurred within the Luquillo Experimental Forest. Taken together, results from the major experiments conducted in the Luquillo Experimental Forest demonstrate a high resilience of Puerto Rico's tropical forests to a variety of stressors.
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