SGER: Impact of Hurricane Wilma, a Large "Infrequent" Enrichment Disturbance on Tropical Seasonal Forest: Establishing the Legacy Effect on the Post-disturbance Mosaic

智力贡献：伊甸生态保护区一直是重要的环境调查地点。它也是许多来自美国的新热带候鸟的内部越冬和迁徙走廊，在生物多样性，恢复生态学和演替研究方面具有丰富的研究背景。2005年10月，威尔玛飓风直接袭击了保护区，造成了严重的破坏，覆盖了一系列复杂的森林和实验。将研究飓风威尔玛对碳、氮和磷积累、树木损害、菌根真菌和真菌组成和分布、植物结构变化以及相应的昆虫和鸟类群落的影响。更广泛的影响：伊甸生态保护区是一个有据可查的研究区域，用于评估生物多样性和生态系统功能与环境变化。来自美国和墨西哥的研究生和本科生将通过墨西哥和美国的合作资金互动参与。Souhegan高中（11-12年级学生）的一个项目，将监测地块，并将开发一个网站，提供高中生感兴趣的研究数据和观察结果。在与PROTROPICO的合作研究下，将在墨西哥保护区附近的Sucila中学启动一套类似的植物、昆虫和鸟类监测系统。该项目将启动UCR和El Eden研究计划，Sucila中学和Souhegan High-ApriatNet计划之间的互动计划，作为发展两国研究人员和学生之间互动的模式。

Intellectual Contribution: The El Eden Ecological Reserve has been the site of important environmental investigations. It also serves as an interior wintering and migration corridor for many neotropical migrant birds from the US and has a rich research background on biodiversity, restoration ecology, and succession studies. Hurricane Wilma hit the Reserve directly in October of 2005, causing a severe damage overlaying a complex array of forests and experiments. The impact of Hurricane Wilma on carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus accumulation, tree damage, mycorrhizal fungi and epiphyte composition and distribution, plant architecture changes, and responding insect and bird communities will be studied.Broader Impacts: The El Eden Ecological Reserve is a well-documented study area for assessing biodiversity and ecosystem functioning with environmental change. Graduate and undergraduate students from the US and Mexico will participate interactively through collaborative Mexican and US funding. HabitatNet, a program at Souhegan High School (11-12 grade students) will monitor plots and will develop a website with research data and observations of interest to High School Students. A similar suite of plant, insect and bird monitoring will be initiated at the Succila secondary school near the reserve in Mexico, under collaborative research with PROTROPICO. This project will initiate an interactive program between the UCR and El Eden research program, the Succila secondary school, and the Souhegan High- HabitatNet program as a model for developing interactions between researchers and students from both countries.