A twelve-year comparison of stand changes in a mahogany plantation and a paired natural forest of similar ages.

S. Fu; C. Rodr¡guez Pedraza; A. E. Lugo

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A twelve-year comparison of stand changes in a mahogany plantation and a paired natural forest of similar ages.

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Authors:

S. Fu, C. Rodr¡guez Pedraza, A. E. Lugo

Year:

1996

Type:

Miscellaneous Publication

Station:

International Institute of Tropical Forestry

Source:

Biotropica. ; 28(4a):515-524.

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Abstract

we compared forest structure over a 12 yr period. 1982-1994 that include measurements before and after a servere hurricaine in two forests: a 64 yr old swietenia macrophylla tree plantantion and a paired natural forest of similar age in a subtropical wet forests

Keywords

disturbance, Hurricane hugo, mahogany, secondary forest, tree mortality, tropical forest, tropical tree plantation

Citation

Fu, S.; Rodríguez Pedraza, C., and Lugo, A. E. 1996. A twelve-year comparison of stand changes in a mahogany plantation and a paired natural forest of similar ages. Biotropica. ; 28(4a):515-524.