When worlds collide: challenges and opportunities for conservation of biodiversity in the Hawaiian Islands
This chapter identifies four key challenges and opportunities for long-term conservation of biodiversity in the Hawaii's Islands. Following are the challenges that need to be resolved for remaining species of native forest birds to survive into the next century: invasive species, landscape processes, social factors, and climate change. These challenges are also relevant to other threatened terrestrial taxonomic groups (i.e., plants and invertebrates) in the Hawaiian Islands. Such threats are familiar to conservation biologists the world over, but rarely do they act as synergistically as they do in the Hawaiian Islands. The chapter reviews conservation successes and failures in Hawaii, and provides an example of the possible future course of conservation in other island communities.
Citation Information
| Publication Year | 2013 |
|---|---|
| Title | When worlds collide: challenges and opportunities for conservation of biodiversity in the Hawaiian Islands |
| DOI | 10.1002/9781118679838.ch22 |
| Authors | Carter T. Atkinson, Thane K. Pratt, Paul C. Banko, James D. Jacobi, Bethany L. Woodworth |
| Publication Type | Book Chapter |
| Publication Subtype | Book Chapter |
| Index ID | 70048517 |
| Record Source | USGS Publications Warehouse |
| USGS Organization | Pacific Islands Climate Science Center |
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