Vegetation Recovery 16 Years after Feral Pig Removal from a Wet Hawaiian Forest

Nonnative ungulates can alter the structure and function of forest ecosystems. Feral pigs in particular pose a substantial threat to native plant communities throughout their global range. Hawaiian forests are exceptionally vulnerable to feral pig activity because native vegetation evolved in the ab...

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Published in:	Biotropica Vol. 44; no. 4; pp. 463 - 471
Main Authors:	Cole, Rebecca J., Litton, Creighton M., Koontz, Michael J., Loh, Rhonda K.
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Hoboken, NJ Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.07.2012 Wiley Subscription Services Wiley
Subjects:	Animal, plant and microbial ecology Applied ecology Biological and medical sciences Conservation Conservation, protection and management of environment and wildlife disturbance Epiphytes feral ungulates ferns Forest conservation Forestry Forests Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology General aspects General forest ecology Generalities. Production, biomass. Quality of wood and forest products. General forest ecology Herbivores Indigenous species Invasive species Minerals Montane forests National parks nonnative invasive species Normativity Plant communities Plants Psidium cattleianum Shrubs Soil Structure-function relationships Sus scrofa Swine Trees Tropical Biology tropical montane wet forest Understory Ungulates Vegetation Vulnerability Woody plants USA, Hawaii Natural population disturbance Tropical zone Restoration Dicotyledones Angiospermae Myrtaceae Psidium cattleianum Ungulata Psidium Tropical rain forest Tropical forest Woody plant Perturbation Tropical montane forest feral ungulates tropical montane wet forest nonnative invasive species Vertebrata Invasive species Mammalia Vegetation Spermatophyta Artiodactyla Sus scrofa
ISSN:	0006-3606, 1744-7429
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