Tropical Forest Ecology and Management for the Anthropocene

• Main Author: González, Grizelle (auth)
• Other Authors: Lugo, Ariel (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2019
• Subjects: n/a; Ca/Al relationship; soil organic carbon; trees; N/P ratios; humid tropical forests; ?15N; element concentration; leaf C and N densities; tropical deforestation; tropical forest area; hurricane; U.S. Forest Service Planning Rule; El Yunque National Forest; conservation; leaf mass per area; knowledge infrastructures; knowledge systems; idiom of co-production; disturbance; Puerto Rico; novel forests; annual cycle; latitude; experiments; Tropical Forest Management; secondary forests; mature forests; American tropics; stoichiometry of leaf litter; allometry; communications; contemporary conservation; and N/P ratios; succession; photosynthetic nitrogen use-efficiency; biomass; litter; basal area; knowledge systems analysis; tropical; Long-Term Ecological Research; naturalized species; Guánica; Caribbean; knowledge co-production; C/N; C/P; volume expansion factors; tropical forest; wood; strategic teams; dry tropical forests; tree plantations; species composition; climate change; cities; Tropical Forest Conservation; Nearctic-Neotropical; vision; forest inventory data; large-scale; tropical forest management; microbiota; soil biota; adaptive management; Luquillo Experimental Forest; Tropical Forestry Research; nitrogen fixing trees; species dominance; long-term ecological research; network governance; leadership; Forest Service; ?13C; elevation; Anthropocene; tropical karst; geospatial analyses; manipulations; gradients; landscape conservation; element concentration in leaf litter; tropical agriculture; land use planning; tropical forests; carry over effects; invertebrates; introduced species; land use governance; long-term
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This Special Issue looks forward as well as backward to best analyze the forest conservation challenges of the Caribbean. This is made possible by 75 years of research and applications by the United States Department of Agriculture, International Institute of Tropical Forestry (the Institute) of Pue...