Department of Earth and Environmental Science
Frederick N Scatena
Disturbance ecology and the biochemistry and management of Tropical
Watersheds
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Understanding the interplay of natural and anthropogenic disturbances
on the biogeochemistry of watersheds is essential to understanding
landscape development and developing sustainable land use management
practices. The focus of this research is to quantify the magnitudes,
frequencies, and responses of forested watersheds to common disturbances.
The majority of this work has been conducted in the Bisley Experimental
watersheds in Northeastern Puerto Rico in conjunction with the Luquillo
Long-term Ecological Research project and the International Institute
of Tropical Forestry of the USDA Forest Service. Recent publications
in this area include:
Recent Publications
Heartsill-Scalley T., Scatena F.N., Estrada C., McDowell W.H.,
Lugo A.E., 2006. Disturbance and long-term patterns of rainfall
and throughfall nutrient fluxes in a subtropical forest in Puerto
Rico. Journal of Hydrology, in press
Scatena F.N., Planos-Gutierrez E., Schellekens J., 2005 Impacts
of natural disturbances on the hydrology of tropical forests. Chapter
19 pages 489-513 in Forest, Water and People in the Humid Tropics.
Editors M. Bonell, L.A. Bruijnzeel International Hydrology Series,
Cambridge University Press.
Schellekens J., Scatena F.N., Bruijnzeel L.A., van Dijk A.I. J.M.,
Groen M.M.A., van Hoogezand R.J.P., 2004. Stormflow generation in
a small rain-forest catchment in the Luquillo Experimental Forest,
Puerto Rico. Hydrological Processes 18. 505-530
Scatena F.N., Moya S., Estrada C., Chinea J.D., 1996. The First
Five Years in the Reorganization of Aboveground Biomass and Nutrient
Use Following Hurricane Hugo in the Bisley Experimental Watersheds,
Luquillo Experimental Forest, Puerto Rico. Biotropica Vol 28, #4a:
424-440
Scatena F.N., Lugo A.E. 1995. Geomorphology, disturbance, and the
soil and vegetation of two subtropical wet steepland watersheds
of Puerto Rico. Geomorphology, 13:199-213
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