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TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION
Volume 35, Issue 7, Pages 594-604Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2020.02.012
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- Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan (R.O.C.) [MOST 103-2621-B-003-002-MY3, 103-2621-M-003-003, 107-2313-B-003-001-MY3, MOST 105-2410-H-029-056-MY3, 108-2313-B-029-001]
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Tropical cyclones are increasing in intensity and size and, thus, are poised to increase in importance as disturbance agents. Our understanding of cyclone ecology is biased towards the North Atlantic Basin, because cyclone effects do differ across oceanic basins. Cyclones have both short and long-term effects across the levels of biological organization, but we lack a scale-perspective of cyclone ecology. Effects on individual trees, such as defoliation or branch stripping and uprooting, are mechanistically linked to effects at the community and ecosystem levels, including forest productivity and stand regeneration time. Forest dwarfing via the gradual removal of taller trees by cyclones over many generations illustrates that cyclones shape forest structure through the accumulation of short-term effects over longer timescales.
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