Canopy dieback and successional processes in Pacific forests
- Author:
-
Mueller-Dombois, Dieter
- Title:
- Canopy dieback and successional processes in Pacific forests
- Periodical:
- Pacific Science
- Year:
- 1983
- Volume:
- 37
- Pages:
- 317-325
- Subject:
-
Canopy dieback
Ohia dieback
Metrosideros polymorpha
Ecosystem management
- Summary:
- This document describes massive tree dieback that has occurred periodically in the montane rainforests of Hawaii. Throughout this paper, particular emphasis is placed on the Ohia (Metrosideros polymorpha) tree -- a prevailing upper canopy tree species that occurs throughout most of this forest on all high Hawaiian islands. Described are sites in which canopy dieback occurs, five main dieback patterns, a chain-reaction process that occurs during a dieback, and the successional processes that occur in the forests in the Pacific.
- Label:
- Botany - Ohia
- URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10125/729
- Collection:
- Periodicals