Ariel E. Lugo

Research interests

Publications

• Managing the whole landscape: historical, hybrid, and novel ecosystems

  Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1890/130300

• Don't judge species on their origins

  Nature · 2011 · https://doi.org/10.1038/474153a

• The Potential for Species Conservation in Tropical Secondary Forests

  Conservation Biology · 2009 · https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1523-1739.2009.01338.x

• The spread of invasive species and infectious disease as drivers of ecosystem change

  Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment · 2008 · https://doi.org/10.1890/070151

• Novel ecosystems: theoretical and management aspects of the new ecological world order

  Global Ecology and Biogeography · 2006 · https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1466-822x.2006.00212.x

• Emerging forests on abandoned land: Puerto Rico’s new forests

  Forest Ecology and Management · 2004 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2003.09.012

• Climate Change and Forest Disturbances

  BioScience · 2001 · https://doi.org/10.1641/0006-3568(2001)051[0723:ccafd]2.0.co;2

• Deliberate Introductions of Species: Research Needs

  BioScience · 1999 · https://doi.org/10.2307/1313438

• The apparent paradox of reestablishing species richness on degraded lands with tree monocultures

  Forest Ecology and Management · 1997 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s0378-1127(97)00191-6

• Background and Catastrophic Tree Mortality in Tropical Moist, Wet, and Rain Forests

  Biotropica · 1996 · https://doi.org/10.2307/2389099

• Dry forests of Central America and the Caribbean

  Cambridge University Press eBooks · 1995 · https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511753398.002

• Management of tropical soils as sinks or sources of atmospheric carbon

  Plant and Soil · 1993 · https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00010760

• Comparison of Tropical Tree Plantations with Secondary Forests of Similar Age

  Ecological Monographs · 1992 · https://doi.org/10.2307/2937169

• Effects of forest clearing and succession on the carbon and nitrogen content of soils in Puerto Rico and US Virgin Islands

  Plant and Soil · 1990 · https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00010931

• Tropical secondary forests

  Journal of Tropical Ecology · 1990 · https://doi.org/10.1017/s0266467400003989

• Biomass Estimation Methods for Tropical Forests with Applications to Forest Inventory Data

  Forest Science · 1989 · https://doi.org/10.1093/forestscience/35.4.881

• Litter Production and Turnover in Basin Mangrove Forests in Southwest Florida

  Ecology · 1986 · https://doi.org/10.2307/1937691

• Structure and Biomass of a Subtropical Dry Forest in Puerto Rico

  Biotropica · 1986 · https://doi.org/10.2307/2388750

• Ecosystem Dynamics of a Subtropical Floodplain Forest

  Ecological Monographs · 1985 · https://doi.org/10.2307/1942582

• Tree Mortality in Mangrove Forests

  Biotropica · 1985 · https://doi.org/10.2307/2388214

• Biomass of Tropical Forests: A New Estimate Based on Forest Volumes

  Science · 1984 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.223.4642.1290

• Research History and Opportunities in the Luquillo Experimental Forest

  Journal · 1983 · https://doi.org/10.2737/so-gtr-44

• The Storage and Production of Organic Matter in Tropical Forests and Their Role in the Global Carbon Cycle

  Biotropica · 1982 · https://doi.org/10.2307/2388024

• Mangroves of Arid Environments in Puerto Rico and Adjacent Islands

  Biotropica · 1978 · https://doi.org/10.2307/2388013

• The Ecology of Mangroves

  Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics · 1974 · https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.es.05.110174.000351

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