Hasselquist,N.J., Santiago,L.S. and Allen,M.F.(2010): Belowground nitrogen dynamics in relation to hurricane damage along a tropical dry forest chronosequence. Biogeochemistry, 98, 89-100.

『熱帯乾燥林のクロノシーケンスに沿ったハリケーン被害に関連した地下窒素ダイナミクス』


Abstract
 Understanding and predicting the response of plant communities to multiple ocerlapping disturbances remains a challenging task. Hurricane Wilma represents a large, yet infrequent type of disturbance that was superimposed on an existing disturbance gradient of time since fire. We examined disturbance and recovery patterns in response to these overlapping disturbances by measuring how canopy structure, fine roots, mycorrhizae, and soil nitrogen dynamics, varied along a fire chronosequence in the 2 years after Hurricane Wilma. Hurricane damage increased canopy openness in all seral stages. In the early-seral stage, canopy openness returned to pre-hurricane conditions within 2 years, whereas canopy openness in the late-seral stage remained significantly higher throughout the study. We observed no significant change in root length density in the early- and mid-seral stages. However, in the late-seral stage, root length density was significantly reduced immediately after the hurricane and remained so 2 years after the hurricane. In the late-seral stage, we also observed a significant reduction in percent soil nitrogen and a significant increase in soil nitrogen isotopic composition (δ15N) values, indicating a loss of soil nitrogen. In contrast, in the early- and mid-seral stages, there were no significant changes in percent nitrogen or soil δ15N values. Results from this study suggest that forest fire disturbance history influences responses to hurricane damage. Moreover, feedbacks between aboveground and belowground processes have the potential to influence forest recovery.

Keywords: Large-infrequent disturbance; Hurricane Wilma; Nitrogen dynamics; Secondary succession; Stable isotopes; Yucatan Peninsula』

Introduction
Materials and methods
 Study site
 Hurricane Wilma
 Aboveground hurricane damage
 Effects of hurricane damage on soil factors
 Mycorrhizal infection
 Statistical analysis
Results
 Aboveground damage
 Hurricane damage on soil factors
Discussion
Acknowledgments
Open Access
References


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