| Front cover |
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| Inside front cover |
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| Board of Editors/Indicia |
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| General Acknowledgments |
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Introduction: Caribbean Forest Dynamics and Regional Forestry Initiatives
Tamara Heartsill Scalley and Grizelle González |
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| Description of Collaborative Efforts |
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Caribbean Foresters Take Steps Towards a Network of
Permanent Forest Plots in the Caribbean: A Meeting Report
Ariel E. Lugo
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Keynote Address—Forest Management, Climate Change, and
Biodiversity: Advancing an Understanding of Caribbean
Forest Dynamics and Creating Long-term Regional Networks
Marilyn Headley
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Communication from the National Forest Inventories
Working Group of the 16th Caribbean Foresters Meeting:
Proposal for a Regional Workshop
Humfredo Marcano-Vega, Carlton Roberts, Henri Vallès, Jacqueline Andre, Kevin Boswell, Dennis Lemen, Floyd Liburd, and Christian López
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Communication from the Information Sharing Working
Group: Agreement for Data Sharing Among Caribbean
Foresters
Tamara Heartsill Scalley, Saara DeWalt, François Korysko, Guy Van Laere, Kasey R. Jacobs, Seth Panka, and Joseph Torres
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| Presented Contributions |
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Applicability of the Design Tool for Inventory and
Monitoring (DTIM) and the Explore Sample Data Tool for
the Assessment of Caribbean Forest Dynamics
Humfredo Marcano-Vega, Andrew Lister, Kevin A. Megown, and Charles T. Scott
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Permanent Forestry Plots: A Potentially Valuable Teaching
Resource in Undergraduate Biology Programs for the
Caribbean
Henri Vallès and C.M. Sean Carrington
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Caribbean Dry Forest Networking:
An Opportunity for Conservation
Karina Banda-Rodríguez, Julia Weintritt, and R. Toby Pennington
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The Caribbean Landscape Conservation Cooperative:
A New Framework for Effective Conservation of Natural
and Cultural Resources in the Caribbean
William A. Gould, Kasey R. Jacobs, and Marixa Maldonado
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Boundary Organizations as an Approach to Overcoming
Science-Delivery Barriers in Landscape Conservation:
A Caribbean Case Study
Kasey R. Jacobs, Lia Nicholson, Brent A. Murry, Marixa Maldonado-Román, and William A. Gould
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The Forest Ecosystems Observatory in Guadeloupe (FWI)
Guy Van Laere, Yolande Gall, and Alain Rousteau
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Forest and Community Structure of Tropical Sub-Montane
Rain Forests on the Island of Dominica, Lesser Antilles
Saara J. DeWalt, Kalan Ickes, and Arlington James
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Long-term Understory Vegetation Dynamics and Responses
to Ungulate Exclusion in the Dry Forest of Mona Island
Julissa Rojas-Sandoval, Elvia J. Meléndez-Ackerman, José Fumero-Cabán, Miguel García-Bermúdez, José Sustache, Susan Aragón, Mariely Morales-Vargas, Gustavo Olivieri, and Denny S. Fernández
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| Invited Research Contributions |
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Long-Term Response of Caribbean Palm Forests to
Hurricanes
Ariel E. Lugo and Jorge L. Frangi
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Associations between Soil Variables and Vegetation
Structure and Composition of Caribbean Dry Forests
Elvia Meléndez-Ackerman, Julissa Rojas-Sandoval, Denny S. Fernández, Grizelle González, Hana Lopez, José Sustache, Mariely Morales, Miguel García-Bermúdez, and Susan Aragón
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Climate and Biodiversity Effects on Standing Biomass in
Puerto Rican Forests
Robert Muscarella, María Uriarte, David L. Erickson, Nathan G. Swenson, Jess K. Zimmerman, and W. John Kress
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Human Dynamics and Forest Management:
A Baseline Assessment of the Socioeconomic Characteristics
of the Region Surrounding the El Yunque National Forest
Kathleen A. McGinley
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| Concluding Remarks |
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Building a Collaborative Network to Understand Regional
Forest Dynamics and Advance Forestry Initiatives in the
Caribbean
Grizelle González and Tamara Heartsill Scalley
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