Large-Scale Wind Disturbances Promote Tree Diversity in a Central Amazon Forest - Marra, Daniel Magnabosco; Chambers, Jeffrey Q.; Higuchi, Niro; Trumbore, Susan E.; Ribeiro, Gabriel H. P. M.; dos Santos, Joaquim; Negrón-Juárez, Robinson I.; Reu, Björn; Wirth, Christian (PloS one, 2014)
Keywords: Biodiversity; Biology and Life Sciences; Blowdown; Brazil; Canopies; Canopy gaps; Climate science; Confidence intervals; Correlation analysis; Data recovery; death rates; Disturbance; Disturbances; Earth Sciences; Ecology and Environmental Sciences; ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; Evolutionary biology; Forest canopy; forest ecology; Forests; Gaps; Health aspects; Laboratories; Light; Mortality; Plant diversity; Plateaus; Quechua people; Rainforests; Remote sensing; Satellite imagery; Satellites; Spacecraft; Species diversity; Topography; Trees; Trees - physiology; Vegetation; Wind; wood; Brazil; Louisiana; California; United States--US