Status: 

Completed

Title

Revegetation of landslides, vegetation > 1.0m (Large landslide plots at the Luquillo Experimental Forest)
Summary

DOI: 

10.6073/pasta/4e706fd819f4c5bfa284460cca42ebe6

Short name: 

LUQMetadata18

Data set ID: 

18

Abstract: 

Here we use permanent plot data sampled from 16 landslide to documents temporal successional pathways in landslide patches (without the use of a chronosequence, cf. Guariguata 1990) and address the following questions: (1) What are the successional pathways of landslide and what species define them? How much pathway variation of individual plots is there within these landslides? (2) How similar are pathways among landslide? Is there any evidence that, with time, landslides either converge to a common vegetative enpoint or slow in the rate of successional change?

The purpose of this study is to document the recovery of vegetation on new landslides in the Luquillo Experimental Forest.

Dates
Date Range: 
1988-06-03 00:00:00 to 2007-12-18 00:00:00
People

Owner/Creator: 

Lawrence R. Walker

Contact: 

Lawrence R. Walker

Additional Project roles: 

Name: Eda Melendez-Colom Role: Data Manager
Name: Randall W. Myster Role: Associated Researcher
Methodology

Methods: 

All woody vegetation greater than 1 m tall are tagged and surveyed approximately every 6 months (4 months in the first year).

Status: 

Completed

Time Period: 

Long-Term
Related

Related publications: 

Plant successional pathways on Puerto Rican landslides
Post hurricane seed rain dynamics in Puerto Rico
Ecosystem development and plant succession on landslides in the Caribbean

Related sites: 

El Verde Station Research Area Espiritu Santo landslide (ES1) plot
El Verde Station Research Area Espiritu Santo landslide (ES2) plot
El Verde Research Area Rio Blanco 2 (RB-2) landslide plot
El Verde Station Research Area Espiritu Santo Landslide 4 (ES-4) plot
El Verde Station Research Area Espiritu Santo Landslide 5 (ES-5) plot
El Verde Station Research Area Espiritu Santo Landslide 6 (ES-6) plot
Rio Espiritu Santo Research Area Espiritu Santo Landslide 7 (ES-7) plot
El Verde Station Research Area Espiritu Santo Landslide 8 (ES-8) plot
Rio Espiritu Santo Research Area Espiritu Santo Landslide 9 (ES-9) plot
El Verde Station Research Area Espiritu Santo Landslide 10 (ES-10) plot
Rio Espiritu Santo Research Area Espiritu Santo Landslide 11 (ES-11) plot
El Verde Research Area Rio Blanco 3 Landslide (RB-3) plot
El Verde Research Area Rio Blanco 4 (RB-4) landslide plot
El Verde Research Area Rio Blanco 5 (RB-5) landslide plot
El Verde Research Area Rio Blanco 6 (RB-6) landslide plot
Rio Blanco Research Area Rio Blanco 9 (RB-9) landslide plot
Barrio Jimenez Landslide 1 (J-1) plot
Barrio Jimenez Research Area Landslide 2 (J-2) plot
Rio Mameyes Landslide 2 (MY-2) plot
Categories

Core Areas: 

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Table 4 Long-Term Classification: 

2006 Proposal Classification: 

Program: 

EML is valid: 

Yes

EML Link: 

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Variables Descriptions Data File Date Rangesort ascending
Rio Blanco Landslide 9 Intensive measurements File lslarb9.csv 1990-04-02 to 1999-06-26
Mameyes Landslide 2 Intensive measurements File lslamy2.csv 1990-04-02 to 1999-06-26
Jimenez Landslide 2 Intensive measurements File lslaj2_0.csv 1990-04-02 to 1999-06-26
Espiritu Santo Landslide 10 Intensive measurements File lslaes10_0.csv 1989-05-17 to 1999-06-26
Rio Blanco Landslide 5 Intensive measurements File lslarb5.csv 1989-01-19 to 1999-06-26
Espiritu Santo Landslide 9 Intensive measurements File lslaes9.csv 1989-01-19 to 1999-06-28
Espiritu Santo Landslide 7 Intensive measurements File lslaes7.csv 1989-01-19
Espiritu Santo Landslide 6 Intensive measurements File lslaes6_0.csv 1989-01-19 to 1999-06-26
Espiritu Santo Landslide 5 Intensive measurements File lslaes5_1.csv 1989-01-19 to 1997-07-10
Espiritu Santo Landslide 4 Intensive measurements File lslaes4.csv 1989-01-19 to 1999-06-26