The forests of the RAAS twenty years after Hurricane Joan

Abstract

I am very pleased to see so many familiar faces, since it has been a while since we last saw each other; and even more pleased because we are talking about this topic, which is the recovery of the forest. We are talking about students who participated in the data collection and we are going to present the results today. And I am happy about that. I am also happy, and I want to congratulate Alvaro Rivas, director of the Wani magazine, for this issue that they prepared for this event, where the results of these twenty years of effort made by the University of Michigan are synthesized, but also a lot of collaborators and a large number of theses of bachelors, masters and doctorates that this topic generated. And the participation of the URACCAN and BICU universities in Bluefields, whose students participated annually in the measurements and data collection; the Research and Documentation Center of the Atlantic Coast, which played a very important role in making this research possible; the University of Michigan and Hood College, sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF) of the United States, through Dr. John Vandermeer, who is the main actor of this grant.