Hurricane impacts on dynamics, structure and carbon sequestration potential of forest ecosystems in Southern New England, USA

References

• Birdsey, R. A., Plantinga, A. J. and Heath, L. S. 1993. Past and prospective carbon storage in United-States forests. Forest EcoL Manage. 58, 33–40.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Birdsey, R. A. 1992. Carbon storage and accumulation in US forest ecosystems. USFS General Technical report W0-59. http://www.ilea.orgibirdsey/
   Google Scholar
• Boose, E. R., Foster, D. R. and Fluet, M. 1994. Hurricane impacts to tropical and temperate forest landscapes. Ecological Monogr. 64, 369–400.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Boose, E. R., Chamberlin, K. E. and Foster, D. R. 2001. Landscape and regional impacts of hurricanes in New England. Ecological Monogr 71, 27–48.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Boucher, D. H., Vandermeer, J. H., Mallona, M. A., Zamora, N. and Perfecto, I. 1994. Resistance and resilience in a directly regenerating rainforest: Nicaraguan trees of the Vochysiaceae after Hurricane Joan. Forest Ecol. Manage. 68, 127–136.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Brown, S. L. and Schroeder, P. E. 1999. Spatial patterns of aboveground production and mortality of woody biomass for eastern US forests. Ecological AppL 9, 968–980.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Canham, C. D., Finzi, A. C., Pacala, S. W. and Burbank, D. H. 1994. Causes and Consequences of Resource Heterogeneity in Forests - Interspecific Variation in Light Transmission by Canopy Trees. Canadian J. Forest Res. 24, 337–349.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Canham, C. D., Coates, K. D., Bartemucci, P. and Quaglia, S. 1999. Measurement and modeling of spatially explicit variation in light transmission through interior cedar-hemlock forests of British Columbia. Canadian J. Forest Res. 29, 1775–1783.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Canham, C. D., Papailc, M. J. and Latty, E. F. 2001. Interspecific variation in susceptibility to windthrow as a function of tree size and storm severity for northern temperate tree species. Canadian J. Forest Res. 31, 1–10.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Cooper-Ellis, S., Foster, D. R., Carlton, G. and Lezberg, A. 1999. Forest response to catastrophic wind disturbance, results from an experimental hurricane. Ecology 80, 2683–2696.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Elsner, J. B., Liu, K. and Kocher, B. 2000. Spatial variation in major US hurricane activity: statistics and a physical mechanism. J. Clim. 13, 2293–2305.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Emanuel, K. 2005. Increasing destructiveness of tropical cyclones over the past 30 years. Nature 436, 686–688.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Fernandez-Partagas, J. and Diaz, H. F. 1995. A reconstruction of historical tropical cyclone frequency in the Atlantic from documentary and other historical sources 1851 to 1880. Climate Diagnostics Center, National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, Washington DC, USA.
   Google Scholar
• Foster, D. R. 1988. Disturbance history, community organization, and vegetation dynamics of the old-growth Pishgah Forest, southwestern New Hampshire USA. J. EcoL 76, 105–134.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Foster, D. R. and Boose, E. R. 1992. Patterns of Forest Damage Resulting from Catastrophic Wind in Central New-England, USA. J. EcoL 80, 79–98.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Foster, D. R., Aber, J. D., Melillo, J. M., Bowden, R. D. and Bazzaz, F. A. 1997. Forest response to disturbance and anthropogenic stress. Bioscience 47,437–445.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Foster, D. R., Fluet, M. and Boose, E. R. 1999. Human or natural disturbance: Landscape-scale dynamics of the tropical forests of Puerto Rico. Ecological AppL 9, 555–572.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Gaudinslci, J. B., Trumbore, S. E., Davidson, E. A. and Zheng, S. 2000. Soil carbon cycling in a temperate forest: radiocarbon-based estimates of residence times, sequestration rates and partitioning of fluxes. Biogeochemistry 51, 33–69.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Glitzenstein, J. S. and Harcombe, P. A. 1988. Effects of the December 1983 Tornado on Forest Vegetation of the Big Thicket, Southeast Texas, USA. Forest EcoL Manage. 25, 269–290.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Goldenberg, S. B., Landsea, C. W., Mestas-Munez, A. M. and Gray, W. M. 2001. The recent increase in Atlantic hurricane activity: Causes and implications. Science 293,474–479.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Goulden, M. L., Munger, J. W., Fan, S., Daube, B. C. and Wofsy, S. C. 1996. Exchange of carbon dioxide by a deciduous forest: response to interannual climate variability. Science 271, 1576–1578.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Harmon, M. E., Baker, G. A., Spycher, G. and Greene, S. E. 1990. Leaf-Litter Decomposition in the Picea-Tsuga Forests of Olympic National-Park, Washington, USA. Forest EcoL Manage. 31, 55–66.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• IPCC. 2000. Intergovernmental Panel on climate change/Land use, land use change and forestry. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
   Google Scholar
• Jenkins, J. C., Chojnacky, D. C., Heath, L. S. and Birdsey, R. A. 2003. National-scale biomass estimators for United States tree species. Forest Sc i. 49, 12–35.
   Google Scholar
• Kobe, R. K. and Coates, K. D. 1997. Models of sapling mortality as a function of growth to characterize interspecific variation in shade tolerance of eight tree species of northwestern British Columbia. Canadian J. Forest Res. 27, 227–236.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Kobe, R. K., Pacala, S. W., Silander, J. A. and Canham, C. D. 1995. Juvenile Tree Survivorship as a Component of Shade Tolerance. Ecological AppL 5,517–532.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Koch, P. 1989. Estimates by species group and region in the USA of: I. Below-ground root weight as a percentage of ovendry complete-tree weight; and II. Carbon content of tree portions. Consulting report. pp. 23.
   Google Scholar
• Landsea, C. W., Harper, B. A., Hoarau, K. and Knaff, J. A. 2006. Can we detect trends in extreme tropical cyclones? Science 313, 452–454.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• LePage, P. T., Canham, C. D., Coates, K. D. and Bartemucci, P. 2000. Seed abundance versus substrate limitation of seedling recruitment in northern temperate forests of British Columbia. Canadian J. Forest Res. 30, 415–427.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Loehle, C. 2000. Strategy space and the disturbance spectrum: A life-history model for tree species coexistence. American Naturalist 156, 14–33.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Ludlum, D. M. 1963. Early American hurricanes 1492-1870. America Meteorological Society, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
   Google Scholar
• Mann, M. E. and Emanuel, K. A. 2006. Atlantic hurricane trends linked to climate change. EOS Transactions of the American Geophysical Union 87, 233.
   Google Scholar
• Marks, P. L. 1974. The role of pin cherry (Prunus pennsylvanica, L.) in the maintenance of stability in northern hardwood ecosystems. Ecological Monographs 44, 73–88.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• McNulty, S. G. 2005. Hurricane impacts on US forest carbon sequestration. Environ. PolluL 116, S17–S24.
   Google Scholar
• Merrens, E. J. and Peart, D. R. 1992. Effects of hurricane damage on individual growth and stand structure in a hardwood forest in New Hampshire, USA. J. EcoL 80, 787–795.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Miranda, M. L. 1996. Final report: an evaluation of post-Hugo forest recovery programs: salvage, wildfire hazard mitigation and reforestation. USFS General Technical Report SRS-5.
   Google Scholar
• Pacala, S. W., Canham, C. D., Silander, J. A. and Kobe, R. K. 1994. Sapling Growth as a Function of Resources in a North Temperate Forest. Canadian J. Forest Res. 24, 2172–2183.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Pacala, S. W., Canham, C. D., Saponara, J., Silander, J. A., Kobe, R. K. and Ribbens, E. 1996. Forest models defined by field measurements: Estimation, error analysis and dynamics. Ecological Monogr 66, 1–43.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Papaik, M. J., Canham, C. D., Latty, E. F. and Woods, K. D. 2005. Effects of an introduced pathogen on resistance to natural disturbance: beech bark disease and windthrow. Canadian J. Forest Res. 35, 1832–1843.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Papaik, M. J. and Canham, C. D. 2006. Species resistance and community response to wind disturbance regimes in Northern temperate forests. J Ecol 94, 1011–1026.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Peterson, C. J. and Pickett, S. T. A. 1991. Treefall and resprouting following catastrophic windthrow in an old-growth hemlock hardwoods forest. Forest Ecology Manage. 42, 205–217.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Peterson, C. J. and Rebertus, A. J. 1997. Tornado damage and initial recovery in three adjacent, lowland temperate forests in Missouri. J. Vegetation Sc i. 8, 559–564.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Phipps, R. L. 1967. Annual growth of suppressed chestnut oak and red maple, a basis for hydrological inference. US Geological Survey Professional Paper 485-C.
   Google Scholar
• Runkle, J. R. 1981. Gap regeneration in some old-growth forests of the eastern United States. Ecology 62, 1041–1051.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Sanford, R., Parton, W., Ojima, D. S. and Lodge, D. J. 1991. Hurricane effects on soil organic matter dynamics and forest production in the Luquillo Experimental Forest, Puerto Rico: Results of simulation modeling. Biotropica 23, 364–372.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Schimel, D., Melillo, J., Tian, H. Q., McGuire, A. D., Kicklighter, D., and co-authors. 2000. Contribution of increasing CO2 and climate to carbon storage by ecosystems in the United States. Science 287, 2004–2006.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Schimel, D. S., Emanuel, W., Rizzo, B., Smith, T., Woodward, F. I. and co-authors. 1997. Continental scale variability in ecosystem processes: Models, data, and the role of disturbance. Ecological Monogr 67, 251-271.
   Google Scholar
• Uriarte, M., Canham, C. D., Thompson, J., Zimmerman, J. K. and Brokaw, N. 2005. Seedling recruitment in a hurricane-driven tropical forest: light limitation, density-dependence and the spatial distribution of parent trees. J. EcoL 93, 291–304.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Uriarte, M., Canham, C. D., Thompson, J. and Zimmerman, J.K. 2004. A maximum-likelihood, spatially-explicit analysis of tree growth and survival in a hurricane-driven tropical forest. Ecological Monogr 71, 591–614.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Walker, L. R. 1991. Tree damage and recovery from Hurricane Hugo in the Luquillo Experimental Forest, Puerto Rico. Biotropica 23, 379–385.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Webster, P. J., Holland, C. J., Curry, J. A. and Chang, H. R. 2005. Changes in tropical cyclone number, duration, and intensity in a warming environment. Science 309, 1844–1846.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Wright, E. F., Coates, K. D., Canham, C. D. and Bartemucci, P. 1998. Species variability in growth response to light across climatic regions in northwestern British Columbia. Canadian J. Forest Res. 28, 871–886.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• You, C. and Petty, W. H. 1991. Effects of Hurricane Hugo on Manilkara bidentata, a primary tree species in the Luquillo Experimental Forest in Puerto Rico. Biotropica 23, 106–113.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Zimmerman, J. K., Everham, E. M. BI, Waide, R. B. and McDowell, W. H. 1994. Responses of tree species to hurricane winds in subtropical wet forest in Puerto Rico: implications for tropical life histories. J. Ecol. 82, 911–922.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar