Our work can be examined in the context of other research focused on hurricane effects on different time scales.
Given these repeated hurricane effects, our study enabled an experimental test of the Intermediate Disturbance Hypothesis (IDH), for which we predicted an increase in species diversity in canopy trimmed treatments and a loss of species in the treatments with intact canopies.
Comparison of reliabilities of building components that are essential to maintain the integrity of the building envelope highlights the need to design and detail those components to reduce the overall vulnerability of a building to hurricane effects.
Observing when the difference between the salinity with and without the hurricane effects drops below this value (Figure 11) indicates, in certain areas, substantial surface-water effects for at least 2 years and groundwater effects are important for at least 3 years.
The gravity of hurricane effects on forests, livelihoods, and infrastructure is the product of social-political dynamics, land-use practices and decisions, and biophysical and meteorological factors that interact to make some societies more vulnerable than others to experiencing a hurricane event as a disaster.
Studies that investigate hurricane effects on dependent plants have mostly been descriptive in scope (Loope et al. 1994) and are commonly limited to a particular group of dependent plants (e.g. holo-epiphytes), limited to a particular section within the canopy (Goode and Allen 2008) and/or restricted to only one disturbance event (Rodriguez-Robles et al. 1990; Mújica et al. 2013).
Only when the mopping up begins on Monday and the storm heads into eastern Canada will the full extent of the hurricane's effect become clear.
Walter Gillis Peacock, a sociologist at Florida International University, who studied the hurricane's effects on Homestead's minorities, said of the immigrants: "They're drawing on past experience.
Some economic indicators suggest that the economy was slowing before Katrina, and the hurricane's effects may accelerate this decline: House Prices.
The hurricane's effects resulted in a car accident which injured eight people.
