Current Research
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Long-term research: how ecosystem structure, function, dynamics, and composition respond to stressors and change.
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Enhancing platforms for research, monitoring and science exchange.
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Restoration Ecology: Restoring ecosystem services in the Anthropocene.
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Ecosystem level impacts of invasive species on Hawaiian forest ecosystems.
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Biocultural Science and Stewardship.
Research Interest
Ecophysiology, Restoration Ecology, Functional Ecology, Tropical Dry Ecosystems, Grass Invasions, Hawaiian Ecosystems
Future Research
Continue developing research and collaborating with local communities to advance effective conservation, preservation, and restoration-related land management efforts.
Why This Research Is Important
These research themes represent an articulation of future Institute research and our vision to continue developing next generation understanding of landscape change, testing of conservation based tools, facilitating the production of knowledge to improve the ecological condition of native ecosystems of the Pacific, enhance the sustainability of resource use in our region, and maintain the quality of life for those in our Pacific community. Institute Scientists have identified research themes as representing the frontiers of natural resources science and management in Hawai‘i and the US Affiliated Pacific, but also frontiers in tropical ecology and natural resources science broadly.
