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Pacific Island Ecosystems Research Center

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Pacific Island Ecosystems Research Center

Welcome to the Pacific Island Ecosystems Research Center website

Our mission is to work with others to provide scientific understanding and technologies needed to support and implement sound management and conservation of our Nation's biological resources occurring in Hawai`i and other Pacific island locations.

Wiliwili flower

Iiwi & Mamane

Mauna Kea at sunrise

Akiapolaau (Hemignathus munroi) endangered

A Wiliwili tree

Kauai Amakihi

Puu OO Lava Flow

Wiliwili Flower

Mauna Kea at sunrise

Akiapolaau (Hemignathus munroi) endangered

A Wiliwili Tree

Puu OO Lava Flow

Upcoming Events

Hawai'i Conservation Alliance Hawaii Conservation Alliance 20th Annual Hawai`i Conservation Conference. July 31-August 2, 2012 at the Honolulu Convention Center.

The North American Ornighological Conference The North American Ornithological Conference. Hosted by the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada from August 14-18, 2012

Science Picks

Linda W. Pratt, T.K. Pratt, and D. Foote. 2011. RARE AND ENDANGERED SPECIES OF HAWAI`I VOLCANOES NATIONAL PARK: Endangered, Threatened, and Rare Animal, Plant, and Community Handbook. Hawaii Cooperative Studies Unit Technical Report 25, University of Hawaii at Hilo.

Hawai'i's Dryland Forest Perkins, K. S., J. R. Nimmo, and A. C. Medeiros (In Press). Effects of native forest restoration on soil hydraulic properties, Auwahi, Maui, Hawaiian Islands. Geophys. Res. Lett., doi:10.1029/2012GL051120, in press. (PDF)

The Rust Fungus P. psidii Burnett, K., S. D’Evelyn, L. Loope and C. Wada. 2012. Economic analysis of the proposed rule to prevent arrival of new genetic strains of the rust fungus Puccinia psidii in Hawai‘i. Technical Report No. 177. The Hawai`i-Pacific Islands Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit & Pacific Cooperative Studies Unit, University of Hawai`i, Honolulu, Hawai`i. 50 pp.. (PDF)

Hawaii's forest bird community is the most insular and most endangered in the world and serves as a case study for threatened species globally. T.K. Pratt, C.T. Atkinson, P.C. Banko, J.D. Jacobi and B.L. Woodworth (Eds.), 2009. Conservation Biology of Hawaiian Forest Birds: Implications for Insular Avifauna. Yale University Press, New Haven CT.

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