Nelson Zamora

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used a structural equation model to test the hypothesis that species richness, forest structural attributes and environmental drivers have independent, positive effects on aboveground biomass (AGB) and ecosystem functioning.

TL;DR: In this article, an international expedition to the area in February 1989 found an unexpected pattern of recovery with a large majority of damaged trees resprouting, with sprouts and seedlings of primary forest species, rather than secondary pioneers.

TL;DR: Comparison with data from other neotropical forest sites shows that long-lived pioneers such as Vochysia ferruginea and Jacaranda copaia grow fast or very fast at all sites, while non-commercial canopy and emergent species of Chrysobalanaceae and Sapotaceae appear to be uniformly slow-growing.

TL;DR: The differing effects of Hurricane Joan are described on the physical structures of two kinds of tropical forest: the pine forest and the broad-leaved rain forest found along the Caribbean coast of most of Central America.

TL;DR: The regenerating Vochysia population is mostly seedlings and saplings, while that of Qualea is mostly adult trees, and both species are contrasting elements of the 'direct regeneration' which has been observed in this rainforest.