Ecology and conservation biology of avian malaria

DA LaPointe, CT Atkinson… - Annals of the new York …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Avian malaria is a worldwide mosquito‐borne disease caused by Plasmodium parasites.
These parasites occur in many avian species but primarily affect passerine birds that have …

Small islands, valuable insights: systems of customary resource use and resilience to climate change in the Pacific

HL McMillen, T Ticktin, A Friedlander, SD Jupiter… - Ecology and …, 2014 - JSTOR
Understanding how social-ecological systems are and can be resilient to climate change is
one of the world's most crucial problems today. It requires knowledge at local and global …

Interactions among invasive plants: lessons from Hawai 'i

CM D'Antonio, R Ostertag, S Cordell… - Annual Review of …, 2017 - annualreviews.org
Most ecosystems have multiple-plant invaders rather than single-plant invaders, yet
ecological studies and management actions focus largely on single invader species. There …

[图书][B] Climate change and pacific islands: indicators and impacts: report for the 2012 pacific islands regional climate assessment

V Keener, JJ Marra, ML Finucane, D Spooner… - 2014 - core.ac.uk
This report is published as one of a series of technical inputs to the National Climate
Assessment (NCA) 2013 report. The NCA is being conducted under the auspices of the …

Statistical downscaling of rainfall changes in Hawai 'i based on the CMIP5 global model projections

OE Timm, TW Giambelluca… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Seasonal mean rainfall projections for Hawai 'i are given based on statistical downscaling of
the latest Coupled Model Intercomparison Project phase 5 (CMIP5) global model results for …

Assessment of climate change impacts on water balance components of Heeia watershed in Hawaii

OT Leta, AI El-Kadi, H Dulai, KA Ghazal - Journal of Hydrology: Regional …, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract Study region Heeia watershed, Oahu, Hawaii, USA. Study focus Hydrological
models are useful tools for assessing the impact of climate change in watersheds. We …

Changing climate and the altitudinal range of avian malaria in the Hawaiian Islands–an ongoing conservation crisis on the island of Kaua'i

CT Atkinson, RB Utzurrum, DA Lapointe… - Global Change …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Transmission of avian malaria in the Hawaiian Islands varies across altitudinal gradients
and is greatest at elevations below 1500 m where both temperature and moisture are …

Dynamical downscaling of the climate for the Hawaiian Islands. Part II: Projection for the late twenty-first century

C Zhang, Y Wang, K Hamilton, A Lauer - Journal of Climate, 2016 - journals.ametsoc.org
A 20-yr simulation with a fine-resolution regional atmospheric model for projected late
twenty-first-century conditions in Hawaii is presented. The pseudo-global-warming method …

Climate driven changes to rainfall and streamflow patterns in a model tropical island hydrological system

AM Strauch, RA MacKenzie, CP Giardina… - Journal of Hydrology, 2015 - Elsevier
Rising atmospheric CO 2 and resulting warming are expected to impact freshwater
resources in the tropics, but few studies have documented how natural stream flow regimes …

Local adaptation constrains drought tolerance in a tropical foundation tree

KE Barton, C Jones, KF Edwards, AB Shiels… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Plant species with broad climatic ranges might be more vulnerable to climate change than
previously appreciated due to intraspecific variation in climatic stress tolerance. In tropical …