Record ID No. |
2459 |
Author(s) |
Vargas R., Hasselquist N., Allen E B., Allen M F. , 2010 |
Affiliation |
Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA. rvargas@berkeley.edu |
Title |
Effects of a Hurricane disturbance on aboveground forest structure, arbuscular mycorrhizae and belowground carbon in a restored tropical forest |
Source. Vol.(no):Page |
Ecosystems. 13(1):118-128p. |
Categories |
Arbuscular Mycorrhiza |
Subjects |
Soil plant relations |
Sub-subjects |
Plantations |
Host |
Trees |
Organism |
AMF |
Country |
USA., N. America |
Abstracts |
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 |