Mass Mortality as a Way of Structuring Amazonian and Alpine Tree Populations: Evidence After Storm Vaia

• Published in: Ekológia (Bratislava)
• Main Authors: Garrido-Perez Edgardo I., Lincango-Vega Juan G., Tella-Ruiz David, Arias-Pizarro Maria I., Bonilla Karen, Cabrera Jairo, Roman Horus J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Sciendo 2021
• Subjects: alpine wet tundra; disturbance; land-use history; tree sizes; tropical rainforest; Ecology; QH540-549.5; Stump; Tundra
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.2478/eko-2021-0005; https://doaj.org/article/697e52e26694473fbae08bc714865afc

By logging in the past, humans can determine current tree population structures, but fast stump decomposition makes difficult to falsify that for Amazonian Rainforests. We reconstructed land-use histories and surveyed trees ≥ 10 cm diameter at breast height on three 1-ha plots (K1, K2, and K6) in Kü...