"The upper limits of vegetation on Mauna Loa, Hawaii": a 50th-anniversary reassessment
- Author:
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Juvik, J. O., Rodomsky, Brett, Price, Jonathan, Hansen, Eric, Kueffer, Christoph
- Title:
- "The upper limits of vegetation on Mauna Loa, Hawaii": a 50th-anniversary reassessment
- Periodical:
- Ecology
- Year:
- 2011
- Volume:
- 92
- Pages:
- 518-525
- Subject:
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Vegetation mapping Mauna Loa
Tropical alpine habitat
- Summary:
- Native Hawaiian species of alpine flora along the access road that runs across the upper volcanic slopes of Mauna Loa, Hawaii increased from 5 to 22 from 1958 to 2008. This included 9 native species not previously recorded and 8 new alien species. This change may due to 1) continuing primary succession on weathering young lava substrates; 2) local climate change; and 3) increased vehicular access resulting car-borne dispersal of alien species.
- Label:
- Ecology
- URL:
- http://cletus.uhh.hawaii.edu:2074/10.1890/10-0341.1
- Date:
- 2011
- Collection:
- Periodicals