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Ariel E. Lugo
Researcher at United States Forest Service
Publications - 254
Citations - 29965
Ariel E. Lugo is an academic researcher from United States Forest Service. The author has contributed to research in topics: Secondary forest & Biomass (ecology). The author has an hindex of 76, co-authored 252 publications receiving 28148 citations. Previous affiliations of Ariel E. Lugo include International Institute of Minnesota & United States Department of Agriculture.
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Climate Change and Forest Disturbances
Virginia H. Dale,Linda A. Joyce,Steve McNulty,Ronald P. Neilson,Matthew P. Ayres,Mike D. Flannigan,Paul J. Hanson,Lloyd C. Irland,Ariel E. Lugo,Chris J. Peterson,Daniel Simberloff,Frederick J. Swanson,Brian J. Stocks,B. Michael Wotton +13 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of disturbances caused by climate change on forestshave have been studied and the authors have focused on the ability of species to tolerate tem-perature and moisture changes and to disperse.
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Novel ecosystems: theoretical and management aspects of the new ecological world order
Richard J. Hobbs,Salvatore Arico,James Aronson,Jill S. Baron,Peter Bridgewater,Viki A. Cramer,Paul R. Epstein,John J. Ewel,Carlos A. Klink,Ariel E. Lugo,David A. Norton,Dennis S. Ojima,David M. Richardson,Eric W. Sanderson,Fernando Valladares,Montserrat Vilà,Regino Zamora,Martin Zobel +17 more
TL;DR: The issues relevant to those types of ecosystems containing new combinations of species that arise through human action, environmental change, and the impacts of the deliberate and inadvertent introduction of species from other regions are explored.
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Ecology of Tropical Dry Forest
Peter G. Murphy,Ariel E. Lugo +1 more
TL;DR: Dry forest is widespread, usually transitional between semidesert or savanna and moist forest, and the largest proportion of dry forest ecosystems is in Africa and the world's tropical islands, where they account for 70-80% of the forested area.
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Tropical secondary forests
Sandra Brown,Ariel E. Lugo +1 more
TL;DR: The literature on tropical secondary forests, defined as those resulting from human disturbance (e.g., logged forests and forest fallows), is reviewed to address questions related to their extent, rates of formation, ecological characteristics, values and uses to humans, and potential for management as discussed by the authors.