Tropical island natural habitats/systems are highly vulnerable to extreme weather events such as TCs, due to their small size, unique ecological systems and often low socioeconomic capacity  . Growing evidence suggests high resilience of forest habitats , especially within intact forest ecosystems to hurricanes and cyclones . While initial damage can be high, relatively fast recovery rates have been reported for both floral and faunal components of these ecosystems . Within the Caribbean in particular, high resilience of forest types has been associated with the current intensity and return rate of hurricanes over the past 150 years.
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