Response of Coffee Farms to Hurricane Maria: Resistance and Resilience from an Extreme Climatic Event.

ABSTRACT: Resistance and resilience have become important concepts in the evaluation of disturbance events, providing a framework that is useful in light of the expected increase in frequency and occurrences of hurricanes as a consequence of climate change. Hurricane Maria landed on Puerto Rico as a category 4 storm in September of 2017. Among the affected elements were agricultural systems, including coffee agroecosystems. Historically, coffee has been a major backbone of the island's agricultural sector. Grown with a range of management styles, the coffee agroecosystem provides an excellent model system to study the resistance/resilience of agroecosystems faced with hurricane disturbance. Sampling 28 farms and comparing pre-hurricane data (2013) with post hurricane data we find that management sty

SUBMITTER: Perfecto I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6821701 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature