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
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