Introduction: Disturbance and:Caribbean Ecosystems
Jess K. Zimmerman, Michael R. Willig, Lawrence R. Walker, and Whendee L. Silver 414
The First Five Years in the Reorganization of Aboveground Biomass and Nutrient Use
Following Hurricane Hugo in the Bisley Experimental Watersheds, Luquillo Experimental
Forest, Puerto Rico
F. N. Scatena, S. Moya, C. Estrada, and J. D. Chinea 424
At What Temporal Scales Does Disturbance Affect Belowground Nutrient Pools?
Whendee L. Silver, Fred N. Scatena, Arthur H. Johnson, Thomas G. Siccama, and Fiona Watt 441
Litter Dynamics Along Stream, Riparian and Upslope Areas Following Hurricane Hugo,
Luquillo Experimenal Forest, Puerto Rico
K. A. Vogt, D. J. Vogt, P. Boon, A. Covich, F. N. Scatena, H. Asbjornsen, J. L. O'Hara, J. Perez,
T. G. Siccama, J. Bloomfield, and J. F. Ranciato 458
Functional Diversity of Soil Bacterial Communities in the Tabonuco Forest: Interaction of
Anthropogenic and Natural Disturbance
Michael R. Willig, Daryl L. Moorhead, Stephen B. Cox, John C. Zak 471
Distribution and Abundance ot Tropical Freshwater Shrimp Along a Stream Corridor:
Response to Disturbance
Alan P. Covich, Todd A. Crowl, Sherri L. Johnson, and Mark Pyron 484
Disturbance Influences Long-Term Population Patterns in the Puerto Rican Frog,
Eleutherodactylus coqui (Anura: Leptodactylidae)
Lawrence L. Woolbright 493
The Legacy ot Disturbance on Habitat Associations ot Terrestrial Snails in the Luquillo
Experimenal Forest, Puerto Rico
Michele F. Secrest, Michael R. Willig, and Lottie L. Peppers 502
A Twelve-Year Comparison ot Stand Changes in a Mahogany Plantation and a Paired
Natural Forest of Similar Age
Shenglei Fu, Carlos Rodriguez Pedraza, and Ariel E. Lugo 515
Land-Use Dynamics in a Post-Agricultural Puerto Rican Landscape (1936-1888)
John R. Thomlinson, Mayra I. Serrano, Tania del M. Lopez, T. Mitchell Aide, and Jess K.
Zimmerman 525
Forest Recovery in Abandoned Cattle Pastures Along an Elevational Gradient In
Northeastem Puerto Rico
T. Mitchell Aide, Jess K. Zimmerman, Maydee Rosario, and Humfredo Marcano 537
Anthropogenic Disturbance ot Caribbean Mangrove Ecosystems: Past Impacts, Present
Trends, and Future Predictions
Aaron M. Ellison and Elizabeth J. Farnsworth 549
Ecosystem Development and Plant Succession on Landslides in the Caribbean
Lawrence R. Walker, Daniel J. Zarin, Ned Fetcher, Randall W. Myster, and Arthur H. Johnson 566
Ettects ot Hurricane Disturbance on Groundwater Chemistry and Riparian Function in a
Tropical Rain Forest
William H. McDowell, Claire P. McSwiney, and William B. Bowden 577
Background and Catastrophic Tree Mortality in Tropical Moist, Wet, and Rain Forests
Ariel E. Lugo and F. N. Scatena 585
A Theory of Disturbance and Species Diversity: Evidence From Nicaragua After Hurricane Joan
John Vandermeer, Douglas Boucher, Ivene Perfecto, and Ihigo Granzow de la Cerda 600
E. Raymond Heithaus, Managing Editor, Biotropica 1982-1996
Julie S. Denslow 614