Status of management and control efforts for the invasive alien tree Miconia calvescens DC. (Melastomataceae) in Hana, East Maui

Abstract

This report is a conglomeration of the research and monitoring that has been conducted in the area of the Hana Miconia calvescens population since this weed was addressed as a biological threat to native Hawaiian ecosystems in 1991. Despite the amount of time that was spent in the area, and the abundance of useful information that was gathered during the course of the past nine years, many important questions concerning the biology and ecology of M. calvescens, particularly as they apply to the Hawaiian Islands, have yet to be answered.