A5012949642- African Botany and Ecology Studies
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Fire effects on ecosystems
- Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
- Cassava research and cyanide
- Agroforestry and silvopastoral systems
- Island Studies and Pacific Affairs
- Tree Root and Stability Studies
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
2022-2024
University of the South Pacific
2018
Droughts in the Pacific Islands can be extremely severe, causing drinking water shortages, extensive crop damage, and increases size, severity, extent of wildfires that burn incredibly large percentages island land areas. A recent analysis historical drought Hawai‘i found duration, magnitude, frequency have all increased significantly, consistent with trends other Islands. While managers are tasked utilizing “best available science”, they often confronted data...
Abstract Designing agroecosystems that are compatible with the conservation of biodiversity is a top priority. However, social variables drive native in these systems poorly understood. We devised new approach to identify social–ecological linkages affect outcomes and social‐ecological more broadly. focused on coastal agroforests Fiji, which, like across other small Pacific Islands, critical food security, contain much country's remaining lowland forests, have rapidly declining levels...