TABLE OF CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS                       
ABSTRACT
LIST OF TABLES                             
LIST OF FIGURES  
INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW                  
CHAPTER 1 - Catastrophic Wind Damage to Forests
CHAPTER 2 - Factors Influencing the Spatial Pattern  
            of Hurricane Damage
CHAPTER 3 - Hurricane Damage Gradients and Vegetation 
            Community Dynamics
CHAPTER 4 - Biomass Production in Response to      
            Post-Hurricane Environmental Gradients 
CHAPTER 5 - Canopy Restructuring in Response to    
            Hurricane Disturbance                
CHAPTER 6 - A Simulation Model of the Response of
            Vegetation to Hurricane Disturbance 
SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS 
LITERATURE CITED
APPENDIX A - Goals, Questions, and Hypotheses
APPENDIX B - Abbreviations   
APPENDIX C - Data Sets                                   
    I. Species List                       
   II. Plot Data Environmental Variables  
  III. Plot Data Hurricane Damage         
   IV. Plot Data Growth Data              
    V. Plot Canopy Data                   
   VI. Hurricane recovery plot variables   
  VII. Spatial pattern analysis variance  
 VIII. Principal Component Analysis run separately    
             for categorical variables                  
   IX. Canonical correlation analysis of biotic 
             variables and damage variables
    X. Canonical correlation analysis run 
             separately for categorical variables       
   XI. Species pioneer index                      
  XII. Plot summary of topographic data, stems, and 
             basal area, at varying minimum stem size   
 XIII. Plot summary of hurricane damage, Average 
             Pioneer Index, and ordination values       
  XIV. Plot data of biomass changes: BEW and HRP  
   XV. Simulated positions along abiotic gradients
  XVI. Plot data on canopy structure            
 XVII. Simulated plot data, results of four-year simulations
APPENDIX D - Data Analysis                    
APPENDIX E - Simulation Model
APPENDIX F - SUMMARY OF LITERATURE REVIEW
   I. Catastrophic wind events literature              
  II. Summary of damage quantification methods         
 III. Species' resistance to catastrophic wind