Ecological gradient analyses in a tropical landscape / edited by Grizelle González, Michael R. Willig and Robert B. Waide.
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
John Wiley & Sons,
[2013]
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| Series: | Ecological bulletins ;
no. 54. |
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword : up, down, and across the mountains : a new look at the Luquillo Mountains / Ariel E. Lugo
- Introduction
- Ecological gradient analyses in a tropical landscape : multiple perspectives and emerging themes / Grizelle González, Michael R. Willig and Robert B. Waide
- Descriptions of the broader landscape
- Climate variability at multiple spatial and temporal scales in the Luquillo Mountains, Puerto Rico / Robert B. Waide, Daniel E. Comarazamy, Jorge E. González, Charles A. S. Hall, Ariel E. Lugo, Jeffrey C. Luvall, David J. Murphy, Jorge R. Ortiz-Zayas, Nazario D. Ramírez-Beltran, Frederick N. Scatena and Whendee L. Silver
- Forest vegetation along environmental gradients in northeastern Puerto Rico / Peter L. Weaver and William A. Gould
- Soil characteristics, carbon stores, and nutrient distribution in eight forest types along an elevation gradient, eastern Puerto Rico / Chien-Lu Ping, Gary J. Michaelson, Cynthia A. Stiles and Grizelle González
- Organismal aspects
- Differential abundance of microbial functional groups along the elevation gradient from the coast to the Luquillo Mountains / Sharon A. Cantrell, D. Jean Lodge, Carlos A. Cruz, Luis M. García, José R. Pérez-Jiménez and Marirosa Molina
- Litter-based invertebrate communities in forest floor and bromeliad microcosms along an elevational gradient in Puerto Rico / Barbara A. Richardson and Michael J. Richardson
- Population, community, and metacommunity dynamics of terrestrial gastropods in the Luquillo Mountains : a gradient perspective / Michael R. Willig, Steven J. Presley, Christopher P. Bloch and Javier Alvarez
- Avian distribution along a gradient of urbanization in northeastern Puerto Rico / Edgar O. Vázquez Plass and Joseph M. Wunderle Jr
- Biogeochemistry
- Spatial and temporal heterogeneity of rainfall inorganic ion composition in northeastern Puerto Rico / Ernesto Medina, Grizelle González and Maria M. Rivera
- Changes in leaf properties across an elevation gradient in the Luquillo Mountains, Puerto Rico / Nancy L. Harris and Ernesto Medina
- Woody debris characterization along an elevation gradient in northeastern Puerto Rico / Grizelle González and Morgan M. Luce
- Soil redox dynamics and biogeochemistry along a tropical elevation gradient / Whendee L. Silver, Daniel Liptzin and Maya Almaraz
- Landscape ecology
- Landslides cause spatial and temporal gradients at multiple scales in the Luquillo Mountains of Puerto Rico / Aaron B. Shiels and Lawrence R. Walker
- Using gradient analysis to simulate the spatial structure and function of the Luquillo Experimental Forest / Whitney G. Lash-Marshall, Charles A. S. Hall and Wei Wu
- A test of the maximum power hypothesis along an elevational gradient in the Luquillo Mountains of Puerto Rico / Nancy L. Harris, Charles A. S. Hall and Ariel E. Lugo
- Conclusion
- Advancements in the understanding of spatiotemporal gradients in tropical landscapes : a Luquillo focus and global perspective / Grizelle González, Robert B. Waide and Michael R. Willig.