Solar radiation and soil moisture drive tropical forest understory responses to experimental and natural hurricanes

Aboveground carbon responses to experimental and natural hurricane impacts in a subtropical wet forest in Puerto Rico

(2022) Hervé Chevalier et al.   Ecosphere

A general pattern of trade-offs between ecosystem resistance and resilience to tropical cyclones

(2022) Christopher J. Patrick et al.   Science Advances

Mountains, climate and niche heterogeneity explain global patterns of fern diversity

(2021) Jacob S. Suissa et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Tree recruitment failure in old‐growth forest patches across human‐modified rainforests

(2021) Ricard Arasa‐Gisbert et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Recent migration of tropical cyclones toward coasts

(2021) Shuai Wang et al.   SCIENCE

Successional syndromes of saplings in tropical secondary forests emerge from environment‐dependent trait–demography relationships

(2021) Hao Ran Lai et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Disturbance frequency, intensity and forest structure modulate cyclone‐induced changes in mangrove forest canopy cover

(2021) Jonathan Peereman et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Reviewing the Use of Resilience Concepts in Forest Sciences

(2020) L. Nikinmaa et al.   Current Forestry Reports

A Research Framework to Integrate Cross-Ecosystem Responses to Tropical Cyclones

(2020) J Aaron Hogan et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Tropical Cyclone Ecology: A Scale-Link Perspective

(2020) Teng-Chiu Lin et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Disturbance and resilience in the Luquillo Experimental Forest

(2020) Jess K. Zimmerman et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Damage Diversity as a Metric of Structural Complexity after Forest Wind Disturbance

(2019) Chris Peterson   Forests

Hurricane María tripled stem breaks and doubled tree mortality relative to other major storms

(2019) María Uriarte et al.   Nature Communications

Future precipitation variability during the early rainfall season in the El Yunque National Forest

(2019) Craig A. Ramseyer et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Climate change increases potential plant species richness on Puerto Rican uplands

(2019) Azad Henareh Khalyani et al.   CLIMATIC CHANGE

Reconstructing the effects of hurricanes over 155 years on the structure and diversity of trees in two tropical montane rainforests in Jamaica

(2019) Kurt McLaren et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

Globally consistent impact of tropical cyclones on the structure of tropical and subtropical forests

(2018) Thomas Ibanez et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Drivers and mechanisms of tree mortality in moist tropical forests

(2018) Nate McDowell et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

The Frequency of Cyclonic Wind Storms Shapes Tropical Forest Dynamism and Functional Trait Dispersion

(2018) J. Hogan et al.   Forests

A global slowdown of tropical-cyclone translation speed

(2018) James P. Kossin   NATURE

Changes in Phylogenetic Community Structure of the Seedling Layer Following Hurricane Disturbance in a Human-Impacted Tropical Forest

(2018) Liza Comita et al.   Forests

Dry conditions and disturbance promote liana seedling survival and abundance

(2018) María Natalia Umaña et al.   ECOLOGY

Poleward migration of the destructive effects of tropical cyclones during the 20th century

(2018) Jan Altman et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Improving predictions of tropical forest response to climate change through integration of field studies and ecosystem modeling

(2017) Xiaohui Feng et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Environmental heterogeneity and biotic interactions mediate climate impacts on tropical forest regeneration

(2017) María Uriarte et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

lmerTest Package: Tests in Linear Mixed Effects Models

(2017) Alexandra Kuznetsova et al.   Journal of Statistical Software

Reprocessing the Most Intense Historical Tropical Cyclones in the Satellite Era Using the Advanced Dvorak Technique

(2017) Christopher Velden et al.   MONTHLY WEATHER REVIEW

Reassessing rainfall in the Luquillo Mountains, Puerto Rico: Local and global ecohydrological implications

(2017) Sheila F. Murphy et al.   PLoS One

Short-term Dynamics and the Effects of Biotic and Abiotic Factors on Plant Physiognomic Groups in a Hurricane-impacted Lower Montane Tropical Forest

(2016) Denneko Luke et al.   BIOTROPICA

Higher β-diversity observed for herbs over woody plants is driven by stronger habitat filtering in a tropical understory

(2016) Stephen J. Murphy et al.   ECOLOGY

Changing disturbance regimes, ecological memory, and forest resilience

(2016) Jill F Johnstone et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

A demographic ménage à trois: interactions between disturbances both amplify and dampen population dynamics of an endemic plant

(2016) Matthew R. Tye et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Combined impacts of natural and human disturbances on rocky shore communities

(2016) Fiorenza Micheli et al.   OCEAN & COASTAL MANAGEMENT

Human influence on tropical cyclone intensity

(2016) Adam H. Sobel et al.   SCIENCE

The interaction of land-use legacies and hurricane disturbance in subtropical wet forest: twenty-one years of change

(2016) James Aaron Hogan et al.   Ecosphere

Cascading Effects of Canopy Opening and Debris Deposition from a Large-Scale Hurricane Experiment in a Tropical Rain Forest

(2015) Aaron B. Shiels et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Forest resilience and tipping points at different spatio-temporal scales: approaches and challenges

(2015) Christopher P. O. Reyer et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Disturbance interactions: characterization, prediction, and the potential for cascading effects

(2015) B. Buma   Ecosphere

Seven-year responses of trees to experimental hurricane effects in a tropical rainforest, Puerto Rico

(2014) Jess K. Zimmerman et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Effects of canopy opening and debris deposition on fungal connectivity, phosphorus movement between litter cohorts and mass loss

(2014) D. Jean Lodge et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Differential effects of canopy trimming and litter deposition on litterfall and nutrient dynamics in a wet subtropical forest

(2014) Whendee L. Silver et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Understanding the key mechanisms of tropical forest responses to canopy loss and biomass deposition from experimental hurricane effects

(2014) Aaron B. Shiels et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Understory fern community structure, growth and spore production responses to a large-scale hurricane experiment in a Puerto Rico rainforest

(2014) Joanne M. Sharpe et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Trend Analysis with a New Global Record of Tropical Cyclone Intensity

(2013) James P. Kossin et al.   JOURNAL OF CLIMATE

Life-history trade-offs during the seed-to-seedling transition in a subtropical wet forest community

(2013) Robert Muscarella et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Changes in abiotic influences on seed plants and ferns during 18 years of primary succession on Puerto Rican landslides

(2013) Lawrence R. Walker et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Downscaling CMIP5 climate models shows increased tropical cyclone activity over the 21st century

(2013) K. A. Emanuel   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Non-arborescent vegetation trajectories following repeated hurricane disturbance: ephemeral versus enduring responses

(2011) Alejandro A. Royo et al.   Ecosphere

A Canopy Trimming Experiment in Puerto Rico: The Response of Litter Invertebrate Communities to Canopy Loss and Debris Deposition in a Tropical Forest Subject to Hurricanes

(2010) Barbara A. Richardson et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Plant responses to simulated hurricane impacts in a subtropical wet forest, Puerto Rico

(2010) Aaron B. Shiels et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Early successional woody plants facilitate and ferns inhibit forest development on Puerto Rican landslides

(2010) Lawrence R. Walker et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

The International Best Track Archive for Climate Stewardship (IBTrACS)

(2009) Kenneth R. Knapp et al.   BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY

Natural disturbance and human land use as determinants of tropical forest dynamics: results from a forest simulator

(2009) María Uriarte et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Abiotic and biotic drivers of seedling survival in a hurricane-impacted tropical forest

(2009) Liza S. Comita et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Cyclone Tolerance in New World Arecaceae: Biogeographic Variation and Abiotic Natural Selection

(2008) M. Patrick Griffith et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Modeling hourly and daily fractions of UV, PAR and NIR to global solar radiation under various sky conditions at Botucatu, Brazil

(2008) João F. Escobedo et al.   APPLIED ENERGY

Impacts of wind disturbance on fragmented tropical forests: A review and synthesis

(2008) WILLIAM F. LAURANCE et al.   AUSTRAL ECOLOGY

Wood density predicts plant damage and vegetative recovery rates caused by cyclone disturbance in tropical rainforest tree species of North Queensland, Australia

(2008) TIMOTHY J. CURRAN et al.   AUSTRAL ECOLOGY

Landscape-scale impacts of Cyclone Larry on the forests of northeast Australia, including comparisons with previous cyclones impacting the region between 1858 and 2006

(2008) STEPHEN M. TURTON   AUSTRAL ECOLOGY

Visible and invisible effects of hurricanes on forest ecosystems: an international review

(2008) A. E. LUGO   AUSTRAL ECOLOGY

The increasing intensity of the strongest tropical cyclones

(2008) James B. Elsner et al.   NATURE