Hasselquist, Niles
- University of California, Riverside (UCR)
Abstract
To better understand how management and restoration practices influence the response of terrestrial ecosystems to large-scale disturbances, it is critical to study above- and belowground effects. In this study, we examined the immediate effect of a major hurricane on aboveground forest structure, arbuscular mycorrhizae ( AM) and belowground carbon pools in experimentally thinned plots in a tropical forest. The hurricane occurred five years after a thinning treatment, when thinned plots had similar aboveground carbon stocks but different forest structure compared to control plots. Thinned plots had more large diameter (>10 cm) trees compared to the control plots, which were characterized by a higher density of small diameter (
Keywords
large-infrequent disturbance; restoration; mycorrhizae; forest architecture; rhizosphere; forest thinning; MODIS
Published in
Ecosystems
2010, volume: 13, number: 1, pages: 118-128
SLU Authors
UKÄ Subject classification
Forest Science
Publication identifier
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10021-009-9305-x
Permanent link to this page (URI)
https://res.slu.se/id/publ/99434