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Coqui frog populations are negatively affected by canopy opening but not detritus deposition following an experimental hurricane in a tropical rainforest

Hurricanes, cyclones, and typhoons are common disturbances in many island and coastal forests. There is a lack of understanding of the importance to forest biota of the two major physical aspects that occur simultaneously during a hurricane: canopy disturbance and detritus (debris) deposition onto the ground. Using a replicated factorial design, our study involved...

Author(s):

Paul D. Klawanski; Ben Dalton; Aaron B. Shiels

Year:

2014

Keywords:

Detritus addition, Eleutherodactylus coqui, Forest canopy gap, Frog density dynamics, Hurricane disturbance, Tropical rainforest windstorm

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Forest Ecology and Management. 332: 118-123.

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Coqui frog populations are negatively affected by canopy opening but not detritus deposition following an experimental hurricane in a tropical rainforest

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