Figure 4: Scatterplot of
Inferred Stand Ages based on pre-hurricane and hurricane-killed species
assemblages in 23 Key Largo forests. Open circles represent the two youngest
stands whose composition consisted of pioneer species only, see text.
Forest
succession in tropical hardwood hammocks of the Florida Keys: effects of
direct mortality from Hurricane Andrew
summitted to Biotropica (MS
# 99116)
by
Michael S. Ross, Mary Carrington,
Laura J. Flynn, Pablo L. Ruiz
November 17, 1999
Southeast Environmental Research Program, Florida International University,
Univeristy Park, OE-148, Miami, Fl., 33199
Florida International University, Southeast Environmental Research Center,
Copyright © 1999. All rights reserved.