Hawai‘i forest review: Synthesizing the ecology, evolution, and conservation of a model system

• Published in: Perspectives in plant ecology, evolution and systematics Vol. 52; p. 125631
• Main Authors: Barton, Kasey E., Westerband, Andrea, Ostertag, Rebecca, Stacy, Elizabeth, Winter, Kawika, Drake, Donald R., Fortini, Lucas Berio, Litton, Creighton M., Cordell, Susan, Krushelnycky, Paul, Kawelo, Kapua, Feliciano, Kealoha, Bennett, Gordon, Knight, Tiffany
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier GmbH 01.10.2021
• Subjects: Biogeography; climate change; Community assembly; ecosystems; evolution; Hybrid restoration; introduced species; Invasive species; Metrosideros; nutrient availability; phenotypic variation; plant ecology; rare species; Regime shifts; resource management; soil structure; species richness; Tropical islands; Biogeography; Tropical islands; Invasive species; Community assembly; Hybrid restoration; Regime shifts

•Hawaiian forests are home to a highly endemic and disharmonic biota due to dispersal limitation and adaptive radiations in some lineages.•Steep environmental gradients and abiotic heterogeneity shape complex ecological and evolutionary dynamics in Hawaiian forests.•Human-caused regime shifts across...