Title:

Plant community, soil, litter decomposition, and environmental data for Acacia koa stands on Hawaiʻi Island, 2019

Author(s):

Esch, Clarice M.; Yelenik, Stephanie G.

Publication Year:

2025

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Esch, Clarice M.; Yelenik, Stepanie G. 2025. Plant community, soil, litter decomposition, and environmental data for Acacia koa stands on Hawaiʻi Island, 2019. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2025-0001

Abstract:

This data publication contains data obtained from March through August 2019 on tree basal area, grass biomass, soil moisture, nitrogen and carbon pools and fluxes, light levels, as well as litter quantity, quality, and decomposition rates under Acacia koa stands of varying density in multiple mid-elevation old pasture sites on Hawaiʻi Island.

Keywords:

biota; Carbon; Ecology, Ecosystems, & Environment; Plant ecology; Forest & Plant Health; Invasive species; Acacia koa; reforestation; soil nitrogen; succession; shade; litter accumulation; Hawaiʻi; United States

Related publications:

• Esch, Clarice M.; Yelenik, Stephanie G. unknown. Restoring with forest monocultures: a mechanistic look at invasive species suppression. Restoration Ecology. [In review].

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