Browsing Pacific Cooperative Studies Unit by Subject "Fire ecology -- Hawaii -- Hawaii Island."

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Fire effects in the submontane seasonal zone, Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park

Tunison, J T; Loh, R L; Leialoha, J A K (Cooperative National Park Resources Studies Unit, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Department of Botany, 1995-12)

Alien grasses that promote fire invaded the submontane seasonal zone of Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park starting in the 1960s. These grasses recover rapidly from fire, maintain a high dead-to-live biomass ratio, and burn ...
The Hilina Pali Fire: A Controlled Burn Exercise

Parman, Terry T; Wampler, Kirk (Cooperative National Park Resources Studies Unit, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Department of Botany, 1977-05)

The alteration of natural successional trends within Hawaii's native flora has been affected by many agents. The introduction of exotic plants and feral animals by the early Polynesians marked the first purposeful change ...
Rehabilitation of ‘ōhi’a-swordfern (Metrosideros polymorpha-Nephrolepis multiflora) woodlands following the Kupukupu Fire, Hawaii Volcanoes National Park

McDaniel, Sierra; Loh, Rhonda; Dale, Susan; Smith, Kimberly; Vaidya, Maya (Pacific Cooperative Studies Unit, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Department of Botany, 2008-09)

The 2002 Kupukupu Fire burned more than 3,367 acres (1363 hectares) in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. Four hundred and fifty-five acres (184 hectares) were in transitionally dry to mesic ‘ōhi’a swordfern woodland of which ...