Upper limits of vegetation on Mauna Loa, Hawaiʻi

Author:

Fosberg, F. R.

Title:

Upper limits of vegetation on Mauna Loa, Hawaiʻi

Periodical:

Ecology

Year:

1959

Volume:

40

Pages:

144-146

Subject:

Plants Mauna Kea Plants Mauna Loa Vegetation mapping Mauna Kea Vegetation mapping Mauna Loa

Summary:

The author's description of the vegetation on Mauna Loa was based on his notes taken in 1958 in conjunction with a project related to altimeter readings. An explanation for the generally better development of vegetation at higher altitudes on Mauna Kea compared with Mauna Loa was probably due to the prevalence of ash rather than fresh lava on Mauna Kea, and the much greater age of the substratum on Mauna Kea, with consequently greater weathering and more advanced soil formation. A comparison of the data available on the vegetation of Mauna Kea shows that the upper limits of individual plant species as well as of the corresponding vegetation on Mauna Loa.

Label:

Botany

URL:

http://cletus.uhh.hawaii.edu:2074/10.2307/1929934

Date:

January 1959

Collection:

Periodicals