Tropical Dry Forest
Forest Understory Regeneration after Anthropogenic Disturbances in a Semi-deciduous Tropical Dry Forest in Puerto Rico.
... Guánica’s tropical dry forest, among other homologous dry forests, represents one of the most endangered ecosystems in the tropics (Stoner and Azofeifa, 2009), which depends greatly on ...
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Runoff Generation In A Tropical Dry Forest Watershed: Processes, Patterns And Connectivity
... Tropical dry forests account for approximately 42% of the world‟s tropical forests (Murphy and Lugo, 1986; Miles et ...diverse tropical dry forests in the world (Olson and Dinerstein, ...
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Cultural significance of the flora of a tropical dry forest in the Doche vereda (Villavieja, Huila, Colombia)
... in tropical dry forests are scarce and have been focused on the Caribbean region, mainly reporting inventories of uses and vernacular names for useful plants ...non-timber forest resources with the ...
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Spread of common native and invasive grasses and ruderal trees following anthropogenic disturbances in a tropical dry forest
... a tropical dry forest (Davis et ...the forest and ...native-dominated forest, they should be care- fully monitored for the spread of invasive species, and controlling their seed sources ...
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Litterfall dynamics along a successional gradient in a Brazilian tropical dry forest
... = 78%, see Fig. 5). The role of water stress in driving seasonal variation in litterfall, with peaks in the beginning of the dry season, was already reported in other studies with TDFs (Reich and Borchert 1984; ...
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Patterns of forest composition and their long term environmental drivers in the tropical dry forest transition zone of southern Africa
... historic forest inventory did not include dead trees and so an in- creasing mortality trend could not be shown in our ...late dry season fires, as shown by Geldenhuys ...of dry forests, something ...
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Phenology of a tropical dry deciduous forest of Bhadra wildlife sanctuary, southern India
... by tropical dry forest species seem to be related to rainfall and temperature dis- ...tribution. Tropical forests have a great diversity in pheno- logical patterns within and among forests ...
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New endophytic Toxicocladosporium species from cacti in Brazil, and description of Neocladosporium gen. nov.
... Toxicocladosporium species as endophytic fungi from cacti in a tropical dry forest (Caatinga) in Brazil is reported here for % endophytes in different hosts and ecosystems. In this [r] ...
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Environmental sustainability strategies for counteracting erosion effects and soil degradation in the Tatacoa Dessert
... of tropical dry forest (bs-T) of Colombia were determined; the results allowed establishing the most suitable species living in this area for regreening work, promoting the conservation of native ...
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Influence of Invasive Species on Ecological Succession Routes in Disturbed Seasonal Dry Tropical Forests in Southeastern Mexico
... Keywords: Alternative states; secondary succession; tropical dry forest; Pteridium aquilinum.. Introduction.[r] ...
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Spatiotemporal vegetation analysis in neyyar wildlife sanctuary, western ghats, india using geoinformatics
... hilltop tropical evergreen forest is - 1.113%, southern dry mixed deciduous forest is ...of forest type ...activities, forest fire and uncoordinated policies of the different ...
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The role of tree size in the leafing phenology of a seasonally dry tropical forest in Belize, Central America
... Rooting. Large trees may be able to flush their leaves earl- ier if they have access to ground water or soil moisture reserves at greater depths (Meinzer et al. 1999), while small trees may be better able to expand their ...
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Tropical peatland vegetation structure and biomass: optimal exploitation of airborne laser scanning
... To obtain field estimates of AGB, thirty circular field plots with a radius of 15 m were established within the reserve during 2017. This relatively small sample size, albeit statistically relevant, was determined by the ...
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Post-fire soil nutrient dynamics in a tropical dry deciduous forest of Western Ghats, India
... The study was carried out only in the deciduous forest in MTR. Four classes (B0-Unburned, B2-Burned two years ago, B5-Burned five years ago and B15-Burned fifteen years ago) were prepared to study the impact of ...
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Contrasting Fire Regimes in a Seasonally Dry Tropical Forest and a Savanna Ecosystem in the Western Ghats, India
... Tropical dry forests and savannas consti- tute more than half of all tropical forests and grasslands, but little is known about forest fire regimes within these two exten- sive types of ...
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Effect of forest fire on tree diversity and regeneration potential in a tropical dry deciduous forest of Mudumalai Tiger Reserve, Western Ghats, India
... MTR: dry season (January–April), first wet season (May–August), and second wet season (September– December) (Dattaraja et ...southern tropical dry thorn forest, southern tropical ...
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Geographical ecology of dry forest tree communities in the West Indies
... of Tropical Ecosystem Studies, University of Puerto Rico, and the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Ser- vice (USFS), International Institute of Tropical Forestry (IITF) as part ...
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Air temperature, relative humidity, climate regionalization and thermal comfort of Nigeria
... and monthly averages) variations in the thermal climate of Nigeria, in terms of temperature, relative humidity, ET, temperature-humidity (THI) and relative strain (RSI) indices. We have divided Nigeria into thermal ...
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The scariest part of climate change isn’t what we know, but what we don’t
... We now know, for instance, that even brief episodes of temperatures above 42C kill flying foxes in their thousands. An especially strong month-long heat wave in 2005 evidently drove the iconic white lemuroid possum, a ...
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10. K.Anil and N. Parthasarathy
... understudied tropical dry evergreen forest (TDEF) of India and such baseline research on plant resource use by animal communities will be valuable in understanding the complex forest biotic ...
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