Neotropical ecosystem change (e) as temporal and spatiotemporal gradients

Zusatztext

Within the Neotropics are many tropical and sub-tropical ecosystems critical to the biodiversity, biogeochemical cycling, weather and climate of planet earth. These  ecosystems are always in a state of change which is key to their structure, function  and dynamics.  This book explores that flux as temporal and spatiotemporal gradients.

Autorenportrait

Dr. Myster received his Ph.D from Rutgers University working with STA Pickett and then went straight to the University of Puerto Rico (UPR).  There he worked in primary Montane  forest and in several of its disturbed secondary forests (old-fields, pastures and landslides)  while serving as a CO-PI for 12 years on their NSF LTER grants, done in collaboration  with the US Forest Service.  While at UPR he quickly realized the importance of parallel  studies in primary Cloud and Montane forests on the Neotropic Mainland, setting them  up in the Ecuadorian Andes (and also in their old-fields, pastures and landslides).  Studies  in various primary Amazon flooded and non-flooded forests in both Ecuador and Peru  (and also in their tree-fall gaps and selectively-logged areas) were also organized during  that time.  Taking positions in Oklahoma Universities then allowed him to focus and  continue his studies on the Neotropic mainland which has cumulated in (now) seven  books, all of whose royalties have supported that research.

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