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Hawaii Island biodiversity trends across time and space, 1977 and 2015

Dates

Publication Date
Time Period
1977-06-16
Time Period
1977-09-01
Time Period
2015-06-08
Time Period
2015-08-26

Citation

Camp, R.J., Gorresen, P.M., Brinck, K.W., and Jacobi, J.D., 2018, Hawaii Island biodiversity trends across time and space, 1977 and 2015: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9GTONFB.

Summary

These are the datasets for the Hawaii Forest Bird Survey (HFBS) and the Hawaiian Biodiversity Trends Across Time and Space project that systematically characterized plant and bird communities. The HFBS sampled from transects spanning all major Hawaiian Islands except O‘ahu. This extensive dataset has now been organized into a database and associated geographic information system (GIS) layers. This baseline provides an opportunity to assess how forest ecosystems and their constituent bird and plant populations have changed over time. As part of the HaBiTATS project, a select area on Hawai‘i Island was surveyed in 2015 with the objective of demonstrating the potential of using the HFBS methodology to reassess the status of bird and plant [...]

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Contacts

Point of Contact :
Richard J Camp
Originator :
Richard J Camp, Marcos Gorresen, Kevin Brinck, James D Jacobi
Metadata Contact :
Richard J Camp
Distributor :
U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase
SDC Data Owner :
Pacific Island Ecosystems Research Center
USGS Mission Area :
Ecosystems

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HaBiTATS_landingpage.xml
Original FGDC Metadata
View 		11.05 KB application/fgdc+xml
Jacobi-1989-Veg maps TR.pdf
“1989 Technical Report by J.D. Jacobi” 		547.8 KB application/pdf
J Jacobi USGS - Cyanea tritomantha.jpg
“Cyanea tritomantha. Photo source: J.D. Jacobi.” 		thumbnail 209.32 KB image/jpeg

Purpose

Biological diversity, or biodiversity, is the variety and abundance of species in a defined area, and is one of the oldest and most basic descriptions of biological communities. Understanding how populations and communities are structured and change over space and time in response to internal and external forces is a management priority. Effective management practices and conservation strategies depend on our understanding of the relationship between changes in biodiversity and ecological drivers such as invasive species, land use and climate change. To demonstrate how changes in biodiversity may be monitored over a large (400 km2) tract of native forest habitat, we compared bird and plant community composition and structure in an upper montane region of Hawai‘i Island originally surveyed in 1977 as part of the Hawai‘i Forest Bird Survey (Scott et al. 1986) with a comprehensive sample of the same region in 2015.
Cyanea tritomantha. Photo source: J.D. Jacobi.
Cyanea tritomantha. Photo source: J.D. Jacobi.

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DOI https://www.sciencebase.gov/vocab/category/item/identifier doi:10.5066/P9GTONFB

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