Impact of Hurricane Iniki on native Hawaiian <i>Acacia koa</i> forests: damage and two-year recovery. Harrington, R. A., Fownes, J. H., Scowcroft, P. G., & Vann, C. S. Journal of Tropical Ecology, 13(4):539–558, July, 1997. ![Impact of Hurricane Iniki on native Hawaiian <i>Acacia koa</i> forests: damage and two-year recovery [link]](https://bibbase.org/img/filetypes/link.svg "link")
Paper doi abstract bibtex ABSTRACT Damage to Hawaiian Acacia koa forest by Hurricane Iniki was assessed by comparison with our previous measures of stand structure and leaf area index (LAI) at sites along a precipitation/elevation gradient on western Kauai. Reductions in LAI ranged from 29 to 80% and were correlated with pre-hurricane LAI and canopy height. The canopy damage resulted in a large pulse of litter, ranging from 4 to 19 t ha -1 across our study sites. In the first year post-hurricane, LAI recovery and relative increase in stand basal area were negatively correlated with the fraction of canopy LAI lost. The two major overstorey species, A. koa and Metrosiderous polymorpha , were damaged less than the sub-canopy species, Dodonaea viscosa and Psidium guajava . Although D. viscosa and P. guajava were both severely damaged in the hurricane, the alien species P. guajava had much higher survival than the native D. viscosa , both as adults and as seedlings. However, seedling density of P. guajava was limited by low recruitment. At these sites, there was no drastic change in species composition following hurricane disturbance, and forest structure and productivity had recovered to a great degree within 2 y.
@article{harrington_impact_1997,
title = {Impact of {Hurricane} {Iniki} on native {Hawaiian} \textit{{Acacia} koa} forests: damage and two-year recovery},
volume = {13},
copyright = {https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms},
issn = {0266-4674, 1469-7831},
shorttitle = {Impact of {Hurricane} {Iniki} on native {Hawaiian} \textit{{Acacia} koa} forests},
url = {https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0266467400010701/type/journal_article},
doi = {10.1017/S0266467400010701},
abstract = {ABSTRACT
Damage to Hawaiian
Acacia koa
forest by Hurricane Iniki was assessed by comparison with our previous measures of stand structure and leaf area index (LAI) at sites along a precipitation/elevation gradient on western Kauai. Reductions in LAI ranged from 29 to 80\% and were correlated with pre-hurricane LAI and canopy height. The canopy damage resulted in a large pulse of litter, ranging from 4 to 19 t ha
-1
across our study sites. In the first year post-hurricane, LAI recovery and relative increase in stand basal area were negatively correlated with the fraction of canopy LAI lost. The two major overstorey species,
A. koa
and
Metrosiderous polymorpha
, were damaged less than the sub-canopy species,
Dodonaea viscosa
and
Psidium guajava
. Although
D. viscosa
and
P. guajava
were both severely damaged in the hurricane, the alien species
P. guajava
had much higher survival than the native
D. viscosa
, both as adults and as seedlings. However, seedling density of
P. guajava
was limited by low recruitment. At these sites, there was no drastic change in species composition following hurricane disturbance, and forest structure and productivity had recovered to a great degree within 2 y.},
language = {en},
number = {4},
urldate = {2025-07-10},
journal = {Journal of Tropical Ecology},
author = {Harrington, Robin A. and Fownes, James H. and Scowcroft, Paul G. and Vann, Cheryl S.},
month = jul,
year = {1997},
pages = {539--558},
}
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