General herbivore outbreak following an El Niño-related drought in a lowland Panamanian forest

By S. V. Van Bael, A. Aiello, Anayansi Valderrama, E. Medianero, M. Samaniego, S. Joseph Wright. Journal of Tropical Ecology, 2004

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Subfields: Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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How much have we learned about seasonality in tropical insect abundance since Wolda (1988)? (2015, background): “In Panama, an outbreak of lepidopteran larvae occurred after severe drought, which is suggested to be caused by low levels of parasitism in the outbreak generation of the host species (Van Bael et al. 2004).”
The effects of climate change on tropical birds (2012, background): “These results indicate that large-scale climatic events can influence the strength of trophic cascades, but our understanding of such variable effects on ecosystem function, especially in the tropics, is limited (Van Bael et al., 2004).”
Causes and implications of the correlation between forest productivity and tree mortality rates (2011, background): “Specifically, compared to old forests in the Pacific States, BCI has only one-fourth the density of trees 50 cm dbh (74 and 19 trees/ha, respectively) and distinctly lower community-wide aboveground biomass (,500–784 Mg/ ha and 281 Mg/ha, respectively; Pacific States biomass estimated from Smithwick”
Global change effects on humid tropical forests: Evidence for biogeochemical and biodiversity shifts at an ecosystem scale (2016, background): “Outbreaks of at least 12moth species in seasonal Panamanian forests followed the 1997–1998 ENSO event, with leaf damage levels 250% higher than in normal years [Van Bael et al., 2004].”
Which trees die during drought? The key role of insect host‐tree selection (2019, background): “First, the 1‐ha area of experimental drought may simply have been too small to initiate and support an insect outbreak; during some natural droughts in tropical forests, generalized folivore out - breaks have been reported (Van Bael et al., 2004).”