Earthquake-caused landslides: a major disturbance to tropical forests [in Panama]

Earthquakes occasionally denude large areas of tropical forest: for example, 54 square kilometers in Panama in 1976 and 130 square kilometers in New Guinea in 1935. Earthquake rates in New Guinea, but not in Panama, are sufficiently high so that substantial areas of disturbed, nonclimax forest may a...

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Published in:Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) 1979-09, Vol.205 (4410), p.997-999
Main Authors: Garwood, Nancy C., Janos, David P., Brokaw, Nicholas
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Earthquake damage
Earthquakes
Environmental aspects
Flood damage
Forest ecology
Landslides
Observations
Species diversity
Storm damage
Trees
Tropical forests
Tropical rain forests
Tropical regions
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Summary:Earthquakes occasionally denude large areas of tropical forest: for example, 54 square kilometers in Panama in 1976 and 130 square kilometers in New Guinea in 1935. Earthquake rates in New Guinea, but not in Panama, are sufficiently high so that substantial areas of disturbed, nonclimax forest may accumulate. In New Guinea, earthquake-caused landslides are as important as tree falls in the disturbance regime.
ISSN:0036-8075
1095-9203
DOI:10.1126/science.205.4410.997