Investigating the growth periodicity, stable carbon isotope trend and climate reconstruction potential of Akoko (Euphorbia olowaluana), A native Hawaiian C4 tree on Mauna Kea, Hawaii, using tree ring analysis
- Author:
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Ben, Tishanna
- Title:
- Investigating the growth periodicity, stable carbon isotope trend and climate reconstruction potential of Akoko (Euphorbia olowaluana), A native Hawaiian C4 tree on Mauna Kea, Hawaii, using tree ring analysis
- Periodical:
- Tropical Conservation Biology and Environmental Science
- Year:
- 2016
- Volume:
- M.S.
- Subject:
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Mamane
Sophora chrysophylla
Akoko
Euphorbia olowaluana
Subalpine forests
Mauna Kea
Climate change
Carbon isotope ratios
- Summary:
- The author evaluated growth increment periodicity and the stable isotope ratios of carbon in two woody plant species, Māmane (Sophora chrysophylla, C3) and Akoko (Euphorbia olowaluana, C4), from a rather dry, high elevation habitat on the ridge between Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea on the island of Hawaii. The result showed that Akoko may provide a record of past atmospheric CO2 concentration that can be compared with the well-known Keeling curve.
- URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10790/2746
- Date:
- April 2016
- Collection:
- Monographs