Publications

• Ostertag, R., E. Sebastián-González, R. Peck, T. Hall, J. Kim, N. DiManno, D. Rayome, S. Cordell, P. Banko, and A. Uowolo. 2020. Linking plant and animal functional diversity with an experimental community restoration in a Hawaiian lowland wet forest. Food Webs e00171, doi.org/10.1016/j.fooweb.2020.e00171.
• Dudley, B.D., R.F. Hughes, G.P. Asner, J.A. Baldwin, Y. Miyazawa, H. Dulai, C. Waters, J. Bishop, N.R. Vaughn, J. Yeh, S. Kettwich, R.A. MacKenzie, R. Ostertag, and T. Giambelluca. 2020. Hydrological effects of tree invasion on a dry coastal Hawaiian ecosystem. Forest Ecology and Management 458: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2019.117653.
• Amada, G., K. Kobayashi, A. Izuno, M. Mukail, R. Ostertag, K. Kitayama, and Y. Onoda. 2020. Leaf trichomes in Metrosideros polymorpha can contribute to avoiding extra water stress by impeding gall formations. Annals of Botany 125: 533–542.
• Castro-Díez, P. and 36 others. 2019. Global effects of non-native tree species on multiple ecosystem services Biological Reviews 94: 1477–1501.
• Rayome, D., N. DiManno, R. Ostertag, S. Cordell, B. Fung, A. Vizzone, P. Pante, and R. Tate. 2019. Restoring Ecosystem Services Tool (REST): A program for selecting species for restoration projects using a functional-trait approach. Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW-GTR-262. Albany, CA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station. 47 p.
• Rozendaal, D. and 85 others. 2019. Biodiversity recovery of Neotropical secondary forests. Science Advances 5, eaau3114. 10.1126/sciadv.aau3114.
• Menge, D.N.L. and 85 others. 2019. Patterns of nitrogen‐fixing tree abundance in forests across Asia and America. Journal of Ecology 107:2598-2610.
• Johnson, D.J. and 42 others. 2018. Climate sensitive size-dependent survival in tropical trees. Nature Ecology and Evolution 2: 1436–1442.
• Lutz, J.A. and 97 others.. 2018. Global importance of large diameter trees. Global Ecology and Biogeography 27: 849-864.
• Medeiros, C.D., C. Scoffoni, G.P. John, M.K. Bartlett, F. Inman-Narahari, R. Ostertag, S. Cordell, C.P. Giardina, and L. Sack. 2019. An extensive suite of functional traits distinguishes Hawaiian wet and dry forests and enables prediction of species vital rates. Functional Ecology 33: 712-734.
• Craven, D., T.M. Knight, K.E. Barton, L. Bialic-Murphy, S. Cordell, C.P. Giardina, T.W. Gillespie, R. Ostertag, L. Sack, and J.M. Chase. 2018. OpenNahele: the open Hawaiian forest plot database. Biodiversity Data Journal 6: e28406. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.6.e28406.
• Ibanez, T., G. Keppel, C. Baider, C. Birkinshaw, H. Culmsee, F.B.V. Florens, J. Franklin, T. Gillespie, M. Laidlaw, C.M. Litton, T. Martin, R. Ostertag, N. Parthasathy, R. Randrianaivo, M. Randrianjanahary, M. Rajkumar, L. Rasingam, F. Ratovoson, L. Reza, A. Shin-ichiro, E. Webb, T. Whitfeld, R. Zang, and P. Birnbaum. Regional forcing explains local species diversity and turnover on tropical islands. 2018. Global Ecology and Biogeography 27: 474-486.
• Puniwai-Ganoot, N., S. Ziegler-Chong, R. Ostertag, M.U. Ching. 2018. Mentoring Pacific Island students for conservation careers. Scholarship and Practice of Undergraduate Research (SPUR) 1: 25-32.
• DiManno, N.M. and R. Ostertag. 2016. Reproductive response to nitrogen and phosphorus fertilization along the Hawaiian archipelago's natural soil fertility gradient. Oecologia 180: 245-55.
• Michaud, J., S. Cordell, T.C. Cole, and R. Ostertag. 2015. Drought stress in an invaded Hawaiian lowland wet forest. Pacific Science 69: 367-383.
• Ostertag, R., L. Warman, S. Cordell, and P.M. Vitousek. 2015. Using plant functional traits to restore Hawaiian rainforest. Journal of Applied Ecology 52: 805-809.
• Ostertag, R., F. Inman-Narahari, S. Cordell, C.P. Giardina, L. Sack. 2014. Forest structure in low-diversity tropical forests: a study of Hawaiian wet and dry forests (PDF). PLoS ONE 9(8): e103268. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0103268.
• Dudley, B.D., R.F. Hughes, and R. Ostertag. 2014. Groundwater availability mediates the ecosystem effects of an invasion of Prosopis pallida (Willd.) Kunth. (PDF) Ecological Applications 24:1954–1971.
• Dudley, B.D., R.A. MacKenzie, T.S. Sakihara, H. Dulaiova, C.A. Waters, R.F. Hughes and R. Ostertag. 2014. Influences of N-fixing and non-N-fixing vegetation and invasive fish on water chemistry of Hawaiian anchialine ponds (PDF). Pacific Science 68:509-523.
• Cavaleri, M.A, R. Ostertag, Cordell, S., and L. Sack. 2014. Native trees show conservative water use relative to invasive: results from a removal experiment in a Hawaiian wet forest (PDF). Conservation Physiology 2: 10.1093/conphys/cou016.
• Inman-Narahari, F., R. Ostertag, G. P. Asner, S. Cordell, S.P. Hubbell, and L. Sack. 2014. Trade-offs in seedling growth and survival within and across tropical forest microhabitats. Ecology and Evolution, doi: 10.1002/ece3.1196.
• Murphy, M., F. Inman-Narahari, R. Ostertag, and C.M. Litton. 2014. Invasive feral pigs impact native tree ferns and woody seedlings in Hawaiian forest (PDF). Biological Invasions 16: 63-71.
• Schulten, J.R., T. Colleen Cole, S. Cordell, K.M. Publico, R. Ostertag, J. Enoka, and J.D. Michaud. 2014. Persistence of native trees in an invaded Hawaiian lowland wet forest: experimental evaluation of light and water constraints (PDF). Pacific Science 68:267-285.
• Cleveland, C., S. Reed, A. Keller, D. Nemergut, S. O’Neill, R. Ostertag, and P.M. Vitousek. 2014. Litter quality versus microbial community controls over decomposition: A quantitative analysis (PDF). Oecologia 174: 283-294.
• Meyer, III, W.M. , R. Ostertag, and R.H. Cowie. 2013. Influence of terrestrial molluscs on litter decomposition and nutrient release in a young Hawaiian rainforest (PDF). Biotropica 45: 719-727.
• Inman-Narahari, F., R. Ostertag, S. Cordell, C. Giardina, K. Nelson-Kaula, and L. Sack. 2013. Do seedling recruitment factors shift with ecosystem properties? Tests in low-diversity Hawaiian wet forest and global comparisons among tropical forests (PDF). Ecosphere 4(2):24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/ES12-00164.1.
• Celentano, D., R.A Zahawi, B. Finegan, F. Casanoves, R. Ostertag, R.J. Cole, K.D. Holl. 2011. Restauración ecológica de bosques tropicales en Costa Rica: efecto de varios modelos en la producción, acumulación y descomposición de hojarasca. Revista de Biología Tropical 59: 1323-1336.
• Celentano, D., R.A. Zahawi, B. Finegan, R. Ostertag, R.J. Cole, and K.D. Holl. 2011. Litterfall dynamics and nutrient cycling under different tropical forest restoration strategies and young secondary forests. Biotropica 43: 279-287.
• Holl, K. D. Holl, R.A. Zahawi, R.J. Cole, R. Ostertag, and S. Cordell. 2011. Planting seedlings in plantations versus tree islands as a large-scale tropical forest restoration strategy. Restoration Ecology 19:470-479.
• Meyer, III, W.M., R. Ostertag, and R.H. Cowie. 2011. Macro-invertebrates accelerate litter decomposition and nutrient release in a young Hawaiian rainforest. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 43: 206-211.
• Benner, J., P.M.Vitousek, and R. Ostertag. 2011. Nutrient cycling and nutrient limitation in tropical montane cloud forest. Pages 90-100 in Tropical Montane Cloud Forests: Science for Conservation and Management, editors. L.A. Bruijnzeel, F.N. Scatena, and L.S. Hamilton. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.
• Inman-Narahari, F., C. Giardina, R. Ostertag, S. Cordell, and L. Sack. 2010. Digital data collection in forest plots (PDF). Methods in Ecology and Evolution 1: 274-279.
• Ostertag, R. 2010. Foliar nitrogen and phosphorus accumulation responses after fertilization: an example from nutrient-limited Hawaiian forests (PDF). Plant and Soil 334: 85-98.
• McDaniel, S. and R. Ostertag. 2010. Strategic light manipulation can be a sustainable restoration strategy to suppress alien grasses and encourage native regeneration in Hawaiian mesic forests (PDF). Applied Vegetation Science 13: 280-290.
• Cordell, S, Ostertag, R., Rowe, B., Sweinhart, L., Vasquez-Radonic, L., Michaud, J., Cole, T.C., Schulten, J.R. 2009. Evaluating barriers to native seedling establishment in an invaded Hawaiian lowland wet forest (PDF). Biological Conservation 142: 2997–3004.
• Ostertag, R., S. Cordell, J. Michaud, T.C. Cole, J.R. Schulten, K.M. Publico, and J.H. Enoka. 2009. Ecosystem and restoration consequences of invasive woody species removal in Hawaiian lowland wet forest (PDF). Ecosystems 12: 503-515.
• Marín-Spiotta, E., W. L. Silver, C.W. Swanston, and R. Ostertag. 2009. Soil carbon gain and loss during 80 years of reforestation of tropical pastures. Global Change Biology 15: 1584-1597.
• Ostertag, R., E. Marín-Spiotta, W. L. Silver, and J.R. Schulten. 2008. Litterfall and decomposition in relation to soil carbon pools along a secondary forest chronosequence in Puerto Rico (PDF). Ecosystems 11: 701-714.
• Ostertag, R., C.P. Giardina, and S. Cordell. 2008. Understory colonization of Eucalyptus plantations in Hawaiʻi in relation to light and nutrient Levels. Restoration Ecology 16: 475-485.
• Marín-Spiotta, E., D.F. Cusack, R. Ostertag, and W. L. Silver. 2008. Trends in above and belowground carbon with forest regrowth after agricultural abandonment in the Neotropics (PDF). Pages 22-72 in R.W. Myster, editor. Post-Agricultural Succession in the Neotropics. Springer, New York.
• Zimmerman, N., R.F. Hughes, S. Cordell, P. Hart, H.K. Chang, D. Perez, R.K. Like, and R. Ostertag. 2008. Patterns of primary succession of native and introduced plants in lowland wet forests in Eastern Hawaiʻi (PDF). Biotropica 40: 277-284.
• Carlson, K.M., G.P. Asner, R. Flint Hughes, R. Ostertag, and R.E. Martin. 2007. Hyperspectral remote sensing of canopy biodiversity in Hawaiian lowland rainforests (PDF). Ecosystems 10: 536-549.
• Marin-Spiotta, E., R. Ostertag, and W.L. Silver. 2007. Long-term patterns in reforestation of tropical pastures: plant community composition and aboveground biomass accumulation (PDF). Ecological Applications 1:828-839.
• Ostertag, R., W.L. Silver, and A.E. Lugo. 2005. Factors affecting mortality and resistance to damage following hurricanes in a rehabilitated subtropical moist forest (PDF). Biotropica 37: 16-23.
• Van Bloem, S. J., P.G. Murphy, A.E. Lugo, R. Ostertag, M. Rivera Costa, I. Ruiz Bernard, S. Molina Colón, and M. Canals Mora. 2005. The influence of hurricane winds on Caribbean dry forest structure and nutrient pools. Biotropica 37: 571-583.
• Silver, W.L., L.M. Kueppers, A.E. Lugo, R. Ostertag, and V. Matzek. 2004. Carbon sequestration and plant community dynamics following reforestation of tropical pasture (PDF). Ecological Applications 14: 1115-1127.
• Ostertag, R., F.N. Scatena, and W.L. Silver. 2003. Forest floor decomposition following hurricane litter inputs in several Puerto Rican forests (PDF). Ecosystems 6: 261-273.
• Ostertag, R. and J.H. Verville. 2002. Effects of N and P fertilization on invasion by non-native species in Hawaiian montane forests (PDF). Plant Ecology 162: 77-90.
• Ostertag, R. 2001. The effects of nitrogen and phosphorus availability on fine root dynamics in Hawaiian montane forests (PDF). Ecology 82: 485-499.
• Guariguata, M.R. and R. Ostertag. 2001. Neotropical secondary succession: changes in structural and functional characteristics (PDF). Forest Ecology and Management 148: 185-206.
• Silver, W.L., R. Ostertag, and A.E. Lugo. 2000. The potential for carbon sequestration through reforestation of abandoned tropical agricultural and pasture lands. Restoration Ecology 8: 394-407.
• Ostertag, R. and S.E. Hobbie. 1999. Early stages of root and leaf decomposition in Hawaiian forests: effects of nutrient availability (PDF). Oecologia 121: 564-573.
• Ostertag, R. 1998. Belowground effects of canopy gaps in a lowland tropical wet forest (PDF). Ecology 79: 1294-1304.