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Effects of lianas and Hurricane Wilma on tree damage in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico

Effects of lianas and Hurricane Wilma on tree damage in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico

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Effects of lianas and Hurricane Wilma on tree damage in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico

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Effects of lianas and Hurricane Wilma on tree damage in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico

Publisher

Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press

Journal title

Journal of tropical ecology, 2008-09, Vol.24 (5), p.559-562

Language

English

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Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press

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Contents

Climate change may increase the intensity of hurricanes (Emanuel 1987, 2003), and thus the size of disturbance in tropical forests. As a consequence, disturbance-specialist plants, such as lianas, may increase in abundance there (Phillips & Gentry 1994). Putz (1984) hypothesized that lianas create larger treefall gaps by connecting trees together a...

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Effects of lianas and Hurricane Wilma on tree damage in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico

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TN_cdi_proquest_journals_216938258

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_journals_216938258

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ISSN

0266-4674

E-ISSN

1469-7831

DOI

10.1017/S0266467408005221

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