Potential significance of frost, topographic relief, and acacia koa stands to restoration of mesic Hawaiian forests on abandoned rangeland

Author:

Scowcroft, Paul G., Jeffrey, Jack

Title:

Potential significance of frost, topographic relief, and acacia koa stands to restoration of mesic Hawaiian forests on abandoned rangeland

Periodical:

Forest Ecology and Management

Year:

1999

Volume:

114

Pages:

447-458

Subject:

Reforestation Acacia koa Montane tropical forest Nurse crop Frost damage

Summary:

This study was done in an effort to determine if freezing temperatures were responsible for the poor survival of the Acacia koa, a dominant native nitrogen fixing tree species that is the most valuable native hardwood in the State of Hawaii. This study was also done to determine of freezing temperatures also affected other endemic plants in Hawaii. As a result, the U. S. Forest Service, in cooperation with the U. S. Fish and Wildlife service, studied climatic, edaphic, and biotic limitations in the forested grassland and savanna in the Hakalau Forest National Wildlife Refuge that is located between the 750 and 2000 meter elevation on the northeastern slopes of Mauna Kea on the island of Hawaii.

Label:

Botany - Koa

URL:

http://www.treesearch.fs.fed.us/pubs/38022

Date:

1999

Collection:

Periodicals