Ecological relations in the alpine and subalpine vegetation on Mauna Loa, Hawaii

Author:

Mueller-Dombois, Dieter

Title:

Ecological relations in the alpine and subalpine vegetation on Mauna Loa, Hawaii

Periodical:

Journal of the Indian Botanical Society

Year:

1967

Volume:

46

Pages:

403-411

Subject:

Vegetation mapping Mauna Loa Ecology Hawaii Island

Summary:

As a means of clarifying the vegetation-environment relations and in an effort to classify the major ecosystems of the Hawaiian Volcanoes National Park, several topographic vegetation profiles were drawn in conjunction with a vegetation mapping project of the park. This was done as the east flank profile of Mauna Loa, an active volcano in Hawaii, and posed several questions that merited a second, more detailed qualitative investigation of this issue. However, before setting the stage for a quantitative and experimental analysis, questions were asked for which preliminary part-answers are offered in this paper. In addition, in an earlier paper that dealt with the high-altitude vegetation north of this profile, it was concluded that, as a general characteristic, almost each plant seemed to find its own niche. This inferred an absence or low degree of plant interaction.

Label:

Ecology

Collection:

Periodicals