Assessment of the impact of hurricanes on light regime and biomass in tropical forest ecocsystems: a Puerto Rico case-study KU Leuven
Many forests experience periodic, large-scale disturbances, such as hurricanes and cyclones, that open the forest canopy, causing dramatic increases in understory light availability and seedling densities. In hurricane-impacted forests, large variations in (a)biotic conditions likely shape seedling dynamics, which in turn will determine patterns of forest recovery. We monitored 13,836 seedlings of 82 tree and shrub species over ten years ...