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Analyzing the relationship between forest fragmentation and post-hurricane damage and recovery
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Analyzing the relationship between forest fragmentation and post-hurricane damage and recovery
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the case of hurricane Dean in the Calakmul-sian Ka'an biological corridor, Yucatán, Mexico
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Zager
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Irene
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Irene Zager
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Schneider
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Laura C.
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Laura C. Schneider
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Thomas
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Thomas Rudel
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López Marrero
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Tania del Mar
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Tania del Mar López Marrero
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Rogan
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John
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John Rogan
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Rutgers University
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Graduate School - New Brunswick
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2014
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Tropical forests are subject to disturbance regimes that occur across a range of temporal and spatial scales, and that are important drivers of land change. Understanding the effect of anthropogenic and natural disturbances, as well as their synergies, on forest change dynamics is essential for informing policy and management programs that seek to achieve sustainability and reduce human and ecological vulnerability. This is particularly true in the face of increasing pressures from growing populations, accelerated rates of deforestation and forest degradation, and global environmental change. The impact of hurricane Dean on the forests of the Yucatán peninsula, Mexico, in August 2007 provided a unique opportunity to address some relevant questions on this topic. The Yucatán forests play a critical ecological and social role in Mexico and Mesoamerica, and amount for the largest expanse of mature forest left in the region. However, they are in a continuous process of change due to a long history of anthropogenic and natural disturbances, including the periodic impact of hurricanes, which has raised concerns about their persistence and their ability to provide goods and ecosystem services in the future. Given these concerns, this dissertation aims to advance our understanding of ongoing changes to the spatial configuration of the tropical forests of the Calakmul – Sian Ka’an biological corridor located in the southern Yucatán peninsula, and the relationship between human-driven forest fragmentation and forest vulnerability and resilience to the impact of hurricane Dean at different spatial (from the regional to the forest stand) and temporal (immediate to 5 years) scales. Embedded within the Land Change Science research agenda, a combination of temporal analysis of remotely sensed data, available land cover products and socio economic data, as well as field sampling of forest stands, were used to address this broad research question.
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Geography
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Hurricane Dean, 2007
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Fragmented landscapes
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Forest ecology
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Yucatan Peninsula--Environmental conditions
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by Irene Zager
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Irene
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I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
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2016-10-30
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Access to this PDF has been restricted at the author's request. It will be publicly available after October 30th, 2016.
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