Philippine coastal zone research reveals tropical cyclone disruption of nutrient cycling

Living on beachfront property on a tropical island is an idyllic life goal for many people. Those people may be envious of a number of native Philippine plant species that restrict their population distribution to coastal zones. But that idyllic life comes with a price, as revealed in an article that appears in issue 2 of the 2015 volume of the Journal of Geography & Natural Disasters.