Plot location, burn severity, and canopy data, Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park

Publication Date

2023-08-24

Start Date

2019-06-11

End Date

2020-11-10

Yelenik, S.G., and Warneke, C., 2023, Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park plant cover, seedling, and plot description data, 2019: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9FEN91Q.

Type: Related Primary Publication

Post-fire restoration efforts, like tree planting and seeding have shown mixed success, though the causes of the variation in restoration outcomes remain unclear. Abiotic factors such as elevation and fire severity, as well as biotic factors, such as residual canopy cover and abundance of competitive understory grasses, can vary across a burned area and may all influence the success of restoration efforts to re-establish trees following forest fires. We examined the effect of these factors on early seedling establishment of a tree species – māmane (Sophora chrysophylla) – in a subtropical montane woodland in Hawaiʻi. Following a human-caused wildfire, we sowed seeds of māmane as part of a restoration effort. We co-designed a project to examine māmane seedling establishment after the 2018 Keauhou Fire in Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park.

• Pacific Island Ecosystems Research Center

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