Long-term rain forest succession and landscape change in Hawai'i: The 'Maui Forest Trouble' revisited

Journal of Vegetation Science

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 685-692

  Mueller Dombois, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Forest decline; Forest dieback; Geomorphic aging; Long term ecological research; Soil aging; Species pool limitation; Succession model

Indexed keywords

AGING; DIEBACK; EPIDEMIC; FOREST CANOPY; FOREST DYNAMICS; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; NATIVE SPECIES; RAINFOREST; SOIL DEGRADATION; SUCCESSION; TREE;

HAWAII [UNITED STATES]; HAWAIIAN ISLANDS; HELEAKALA; NORTH AMERICA; OAHU; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; UNITED STATES;

ACACIA; ACACIA KOA; METROSIDEROS; METROSIDEROS POLYMORPHA;

EID: 33845287271     PISSN: 11009233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1658/1100-9233(2006)17[685:LRFSAL]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Review

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