Publications

Ware, I., R. Ostertag, S. Cordell, C.P. Giardina, L. Sack, C.D. Medeiros, F. Inman, C.M. Litton, T. Giambelluca, G.P. John, and C.P. Scoffoni. 2022. Multi-stemmed habit in trees contributes climate resilience in tropical dry forest. Sustainability 14: https://doi.org/10.3390/su1411677910.3390/su14116779.

Davies, S. J., I. Abiem, K. Abu Salim, S. Aguilar, D. Allen, A. Alonso, K. Anderson-Teixeira, A. Andrade, G. Arellano, P. S. Ashton, P. J. Baker, M. E. Baker, J. L. Baltzer, Y. Basset, P. Bissiengou, S. Bohlman, N. A. Bourg, W. Y. Brockelman, S. Bunyavejchewin, D. F. R. P. Burslem, M. Cao, D. Cárdenas, L.-W. Chang, C.-H. Chang-Yang, K.-J. Chao, W.-C. Chao, H. Chapman, Y.-Y. Chen, R. A. Chisholm, C. Chu, G. Chuyong, K. Clay, L. S. Comita, R. Condit, S. Cordell, H. S. Dattaraja, A. A. de Oliveira, J. den Ouden, M. Detto, C. Dick, X. Du, Á. Duque, S. Ediriweera, E. C. Ellis, N. L. E. Obiang, S. Esufali, C. E. N. Ewango, E. S. Fernando, J. Filip, G. A. Fischer, R. Foster, T. Giambelluca, C. Giardina, G. S. Gilbert, E. Gonzalez-Akre, I. A. U. N. Gunatilleke, C. V. S. Gunatilleke, Z. Hao, B. C. H. Hau, F. He, H. Ni, R. W. Howe, S. P. Hubbell, A. Huth, F. Inman-Narahari, A. Itoh, D. Janík, P. A. Jansen, M. Jiang, D. J. Johnson, F. A. Jones, M. Kanzaki, D. Kenfack, S. Kiratiprayoon, K. Král, L. Krizel, S. Lao, A. J. Larson, Y. Li, X. Li, C. M. Litton, Y. Liu, S. Liu, S. K. Y. Lum, M. S. Luskin, J. A. Lutz, H. T. Luu, K. Ma, J.-R. Makana, Y. Malhi, A. Martin, C. McCarthy, S. M. McMahon, W. J. McShea, H. Memiaghe, X. Mi, D. Mitre, M. Mohamad, L. Monks, H. C. Muller-Landau, P. M. Musili, J. A. Myers, A. Nathalang, K. M. Ngo, N. Norden, V. Novotny, M. J. O’Brien, D. Orwig, R. Ostertag, K. Papathanassiou, G. G. Parker, R. Pérez, I. Perfecto, R. P. Phillips, N. Pongpattananurak, H. Pretzsch, H. Ren, G. Reynolds, L. J. Rodriguez, S. E. Russo, L. Sack, W. Sang, J. Shue, A. Singh, G.-Z. M. Song, R. Sukumar, I. F. Sun, H. S. Suresh, N. G. Swenson, S. Tan, S. C. Thomas, D. Thomas, J. Thompson, B. L. Turner, A. Uowolo, M. Uriarte, R. Valencia, J. Vandermeer, A. Vicentini, M. Visser, T. Vrska, X. Wang, X. Wang, G. D. Weiblen, T. J. S. Whitfeld, A. Wolf, S. J. Wright, H. Xu, T. L. Yao, S. L. Yap, W. Ye, M. Yu, M. Zhang, D. Zhu, L. Zhu, J. K. Zimmerman, and D. Zuleta. 2021. ForestGEO: Understanding forest diversity and dynamics through a global observatory network. Biological Conservation 253: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2020.108907.

Sousa, D., J. B. Fisher,F. Romero Galvan, R. P. Pavlick, S. Cordell, T. W. Giambelluca, C. P. Giardina, G. S. Gilbert, F. Inman-Narahari, C. M. Litton, J. A. Lutz, M. P. North, D. A. Orwig, R. Ostertag, L. Sack, R. P. Phillips. 2021. Tree canopies reflect mycorrhizal composition. Geophysical Research Letters 48 (10): https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GL092764.

Nugent, A.D., R.J. Longman, C. Trauernicht, M.P. Lucas, H.F. Diaz, and T.W. Giambelluca. 2020. Fire and rain: The Legacy of Hurricane Lane in Hawai‘i. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-19-0104.1.

Pau, S., S. Cordell, R. Ostertag, F. Inman, and L. Sack. Climatic sensitivity of species’ vegetative and reproductive phenology in a Hawaiian montane wet forest. Biotropica. 2020;00:1–11. https://doi.org/10.1111/btp.12801.

Menge, D.N.L. et al. 2019. Patterns of nitrogen‐fixing tree abundance in forests across Asia and America. Journal of Ecology 107: 2598-2610.

Craven, D., T.M. Knight, K.E. Barton, L. Bialic-Murphy, S. Cordell, C.P. Giardina, T.W. Gillespie, R. Ostertag, L. Sack, and J.M. Chase. 2018. OpenNahele: the open Hawaiian forest plot database. Biodiversity Data Journal 6: e28406.

Longman, R., Giambelluca, T., Nullet, M., Frazier, A.G., Kodama, K., Crausbay, S.D., Krushelnycky, P.D., Cordell, S., Clark, M.P., Newman, A.J., and Arnold, J.R. 2018. Compilation of climate data from heterogeneous networks across the Hawaiian Islands. Scientific Data 5: 180012, https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2018.12.

Ibanez, T., Keppel, G., Baider, C., Birkinshaw, C., Heike, C., Cordell, S., Florens, V. F. B., Franklin, J., Giadina, C.P., Gillespie T.W., Laidlaw, M., Litton, C. M., Martin, T.G., Ostertag, R., Parthasarathy, N., Randrianaivo, R., Randrianjanahary, M., Rajkumar, M., Rasingam, L., Ratovoson, F., Reza, L., Sack, L., Aiba, S., Webb, E., Whitfeld, T., Zang, R., and Birnbaum P. 2018. Regional forcing explains local species diversity and turnover on tropical islands. Global Ecology and Biogeography: 1–13.

Johnson, D.J. et al. 2018. Climate sensitive size-dependent survival in tropical trees. Nature Ecology and Evolution 2: 1436–1442.

Lutz, J.A. et al. 2018. Global importance of large‐diameter trees. . Global Ecology and Biogeography, DOI: 10.1111/geb.12747.

LaManna, J.A., Mangan, S.A., Alonso, A., Bourg, N.A., Brockelman, W.Y., Bunyavejchewin, S., Chang, L., Chiang, J., Chuyong, J.B., Clay, K., Condit, R., Cordell, S., Davies, S.J., Furniss, T.J., Giardina, C.P., Gunatilleke, N., Gunatilleke, S., He, F., Howe, R., Hubbell, S.P., Hsieh, C., Inman-Narahari, F.M., Janík, D., Johnson, D.J., Kenfack, D., Korte, L., Král, K., Larson, A.J., Lutz, J.A., McMahon, S., McShea, W.J., Memiaghe, H.R., Nathalang, A., Novotny, V., Ong, P.S., Orwig, D.A., Ostertag, R., Parker, G.G., Phillips, R.P., Sack, L., Sun, I., Tello, J.S., Thomas, D.W., Turner, B.L., Vela Díaz, D.M., Vrška, T., Weiblen, G.D., Wolf, A., Yap, S., and J.A. Myers. 2017. Negative density dependence contributes to global patterns of plant biodiversity. Science 356:1389-1392.

Medeiros, M., Scoffoni, C., John, G., Bartlett, M., Inman‐Narahari, F., Ostertag, R., Cordell, S., Giardina, C., Sack, L. 2018. An extensive suite of functional traits distinguishes Hawaiian wet and dry forests and enables prediction of species vital rates. Functional Ecology: 1-23.

Inman-Narahari, F., Ostertag, R., Hubbell, S.P., Giardina, C.P., Cordell, S., Sack, L. 2016. Biotic and abiotic interactions: Density-dependent seedling mortality varies with light availability and species abundance in wet and dry Hawaiian forests, Journal of Ecology 104:773-780.

Selmants, P.C., Adair, K. L., Litton, C.M., Giardina, C.P., Schwartz, E. 2016. Increases in mean annual temperature do not alter soil bacterial community structure in tropical montane wet forests, Ecosphere 7: 1-10.

Miyazawa, Y., Dudley, B., Hughes, R.F., Ostertag, R., VanDeMark, J., Cordell, S., Nullet, M.A., and Giambelluca, T.W. 2015. Non-native tree in a dry coastal area in Hawai‘i has high transpiration but restricts water use despite phreatophytic trait. Ecohydrology DOI: 10.1002/eco.1715

Anderson-Teixeira, K. J., Davies, S. J., Bennett, A. C., Gonzalez-Akre, E. B., Muller-Landau, H. C. , Wright, S., Salim, K. A., Almeyda Zambrano, A. M., Alonso, A., Baltzer, J. L., Basset, Y., Bourg, N. A.,. Broadbent, E. N , Brockelman, W. Y., Bunyavejchewin, S., Burslem, D.F., Butt, N., Cao, M., Cardenas, D., Chuyong, G. B., Clay, K., Cordell, S., Dattaraja, H. S., Deng, X., Detto, M., Du, X., Duque, A., Erikson, D. L., Ewango, C. E., Fischer, G. A., Fletcher, C., Foster, R. B., Giardina, C. P., Gilbert, G. S., Gunatilleke, N., Gunatilleke, S., Hao, Z., Hargrove, W. W., Hart, T. B., Hau, B. C. , He, F., Hoffman, F. M., Howe, R. W., Hubbell, S. P., Inman-Narahari, F. M., Jansen, P. A., Jiang, M., Johnson, D. J., Kanzaki, M., Kassim, A. R., Kenfack, D., Kibet, S. , Kinnaird, M. F., Korte, L., Kral, J. Kumar, A. J. Larson, Y. Li, X. Li, S. Liu, S. K. Y. Lum, J. A. Lutz, K. Ma, D. M. Maddalena, J.-R. Makana, K., Malhi, Y., Marthews, T., Mat Serudin, R., Mcmahon, S. M., Mcshea, W. J., Memiaghe, H. R., Mi, X., Mizuno, T., Morecroft, M., Myers, J. A., Novotny, V., De Oliveira, A. A., Ong, P. S., Orwig, D. A., Ostertag, R., Ouden, J. D., Parker, G. G., Phillips, R. P., Sack, L. , Sainge, M. N., Sang, W. , Sri-Ngernyuang, K., Sukumar, R., Sun, I. F., Sungpalee, W., Suresh, H. S., Tan, S., Thomas, S. C. , Thomas, D. W., Thompson, J. , Turner, B. L., Uriarte, M., Valencia, R., Vallejo, M. I., Vicentini, A., Vrška, T., Wang, X., Weiblen, G., Wolf, A. , Xu, H., Yap, S. and J. Zimmerman 2015. CTFS-ForestGEO: a worldwide network monitoring forests in an era of global change. Global Change Biology 21:528-549.

Inman-Narahari, F., Ostertag, R., Asner, G.P., Cordell, S., Hubbell, S. and L. Sack. 2014. Trade-offs in seedling growth and survival within and across tropical forest microhabitats. Ecology and Evolution 4:3755-3767.

Ostertag, R., Inman-Narahari, F. Cordell, S., Giardina, C.P., and Sack. L. 2014. Forest structure in low diversity tropical forests: a study of Hawaiian wet and dry forests. PLOS ONE 9:8:e103268

Broadbent, E.N., Zambrano, A.M., Asner, G.P., Field, C.B., Rosenheim, B.E., Kennedy-Bowdoin, T., Knapp, D.E., Burke, D., Giardina, C.P., Cordell, S. 2014. Linking Rainforest ecophysiology and micro-climate through fusion of airborne LiDAR and hyperspectral imagery. Ecosphere: 5:art57–art57

Murphy, M., Inman-Narahari, F., Ostertag, R., and C.M. Litton. 2014. Invasive feral pigs impact native tree ferns and woody seedlings in Hawaiian forest. Biological Invasions 16: 63-71.

Inman-Narahari, F., Ostertag, R., Cordell, S., Giardina, C., Kehauwealani-Nelson, K., and Sack, L. 2013. Seedling recruitment factors in low-diversity Hawaiian wet forest: towards global comparisons among tropical forests. Ecosphere: 4:24, 1-19.

Wang, Q., Quensen, J. F., Fish, J. A., Lee, T. K., Sun, B., Tiedje, J. M., Cole, J.R. 2013. Ecological Patterns of nifH Genes in Four Terrestrial Climatic Zones Explored with Targeted Metagenomics Using FrameBot, a New Informatics Tool . mBio 4(5): .doi:10.1128/mBio.00592-13.

Inman-Narahari, F., Ostertag, R., Cordell, S., Giardina, C., Sack, L. 2010. A comparison of digital and paper data collection methods for mapping and measuring trees in tropical forest plots. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 1, 274-279.

Arcand, N., Kagawa, A.K., Sack, L., Giambelluca, T.W. 2008. Scaling of frond form in Hawaiian tree fern Cibotium glaucum: Compliance with global trends and applications for field estimation. Biotropica 40: 686-691.

 

Publications on the Mean Annual Temperature Gradient–see Other Related Projects

Litton, C.M., Giardina, C.P., Freeman, K.R., Selmants, P.C., and Sparks, J.P. 2020. Impact of mean annual temperature on nutrient availability in a tropical montane wet forest. Frontiers in Plant Science, https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2020.00784.

Pierre S. 2018. Drivers of nitrogen availability, cycling, and demand in temperate and tropical forest ecosystems. Ph.D. Dissertation. Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.

Pierre, S., Hewson, I., Sparks, J.P., Litton, C.M., Giardina, C., Groffman, P.M., and Fahey, T.J. 2017. Ammonia oxidizer populations vary with nitrogen cycling across a tropical montane mean annual temperature gradient. Ecology 98:1896-1907.

Ritzenthaler, C.A. 2017. The effect of soil micronutrient variation along an elevational gradient in a wet motane forest.  M.S. Thesis. Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH.

Ritzenthaler, C.A., Litton, C.M., Giardina, C.P. and Pelini, S.L. 2016. Soil moisture and millipede abundance are more important drivers of macroinvertebrate diversity than temperature in Hawaiian forest. Integrative and Comparative Biology 56:E357.

Selmants, P.C., Adair, K.L., Litton, C.M., Giardina, C.P., Schwartz, E. 2017. Erratum: Increases in mean annual temperature do not alter soil bacterial community structure in tropical montane wet forests. Ecosphere 8:e01904.

Selmants, P.C., Adair, K.L., Litton, C.M., Giardina, C.P., Schwartz, E. 2016. Increases in mean annual temperature do not alter soil bacterial community structure in tropical montane wet forests. Ecosphere 7:e01296.

Bothwell, L.D., Selmants, PC., Giardina, C.P., and Litton, C.M. 2014. Leaf litter decomposition rates increase with rising mean annual temperature in Hawaiian tropical montane wet forests. PeerJ 2:e685  https://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.685

Giardina, C.P., Litton, C.M., Crow, S.E., and Asner, G.P. 2014.Warming-related increases in soil CO2 efflux are explained by increased below-ground carbon flux. Nature Climate Change 4:822-827.

Selmants, P.C., C.M. Litton, C.P. Giardina and G.P. Asner. 2014. Ecosystem carbon storage does not vary with mean annual temperature in Hawaiian tropical montane wet forests. Global Change Biology 20:2927-2937.

Iwashita, D.K., Litton, C.M., Giardina, C.P. 2013. Coarse woody debris carbon storage across a mean annual temperature gradient in tropical montane wet forest. Forest Ecology and Management 291:336-343.

Iwashita, D. K. 2012. Role of coarse woody debris in carbon storage and seedling distribution in Hawaiian montane wet forests. M.S. Thesis. University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI.

Litton, C.M., Giardina, C.P., Albano, J.K., Long, M.S., Asner, G.P. 2011. The magnitude and variability of soil-surface CO₂ efflux increase with temperature in Hawaiian tropical montane wet forests. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 43:2315-2323.

Litton, C.M., Giardina, C.P., 2008. Below-ground carbon flux and partitioning: Global patterns and response to temperature. Functional Ecology 22:941-954.

Presentations

Giambelluca, T., Mudd, R., Huang, M., Miyazawa, Y., Nullet, M., DeLay, J., Asner, G., Martin, R., Ostertag, R. and C. Litton, Invasive non-native trees in Hawaiian forests could increase negative impacts of climate change on water resources (poster). American Geophysical Union Meeting, December 2015.

Cordell, S., Ostertag, R., Giambelluca, T., Giardina, C., Inman-Narahari, F., Litton, C., Miyazawa, Y., Sack, L., Sibley, A., and M. Nullet. Long-term Patterns of Climate, Tree Growth, and Tree Mortality in Permanent Forest Plots of Hawaii Island. Association of Tropical Biology and Conservation Meeting, July 2015.

Ostertag, R., Buckley, W., Cordell, S., Giambelluca, T., Giardina, C., Inman-Narahari, F., Litton, C., Nullet, M. Sack, L., Sibley, A., and J. VanDeMark. Inter-annual Variation in Climate, Tree Growth, and Mortality in Wet and Dry Forest Plots on Hawai‘i Island (poster). American Geophysical Union Meeting, December 2014.

Inman-Narahari, F., Ostertag, R., Cordell, S., Giardina, C. Hubbell, S., and L. Sack. Density-dependent seedling mortality varies with light availability and species’ abundance in wet and dry tropical forests. Ecological Society of America Meeting, August 2012.

Ostertag, R., Cordell, S., Giambelluca, T., Giardina, C., Inman-Narahari, F., Litton, C., Sack, L., and J. VanDeMark. Decoupling of tropical forest structure and diversity: stand characteristics, growth, and mortality in wet and dry Hawaiian forests and global comparisons. Ecological Society of America Meeting, August 2012.

Ostertag, R., F. Inman-Narahari, S. Cordell, C. Giardina, and L. Sack. Structure of wet and dry Hawaiian forests of low diversity: Global comparisons across tropical forests (poster). Hawaii Conservation Conference, August 2011.

Inman-Narahari, F., R. Ostertag, S. Cordell, C. Giardina, M. Murphy, K. Wailani-Nihipali, and L. Sack. What’s going down and what’s coming up: Seed rain and seedling establishment of native species in Hawaiian wet forest. Hawaii Conservation Conference, August 2011.

VanDeMark, J., S. Cordell, T. Giambelluca, C. Giardina, C. Litton, F. Inman-Narahari, and R. Ostertag, and L. Sack. Long-term dynamics in Hawaiian forests: The first glimpse of forest demography from the Hawai’i Permanent Plot Network (HIPPNET) (poster). Hawaii Conservation Conference, August 2010.

Inman-Narahari, F., R. Ostertag, C. Giardina, S. Cordell, and L. Sack. Hawaii Permanent Plot Network: First census results and ongoing research (poster). Ecological Society of America Meeting, August 2010.

Inman-Narahari, F., K. Nelson-Kaula, R. Ostertag, S. Cordell, C. Giardina, and L. Sack. Regeneration patterns in a native dominated Hawaiian montane wet forest. Ecological Society of America Meeting, August 2009.

Nelson-Kaula, K., F. Inman-Narahari, R. Ostertag, C. Giardina, S. Cordell, and L. Sack. Electronic data collection methods for tree and seedling census data in forest dynamics plots (poster). Ecological Society of America Meeting, August 2009.

Inman-Narahari, F., R. Ostertag, C. Giardina, S. Cordell, and L. Sack. The Hawai‘i Permanent Plot Network: research infrastructure for studying the effects of climate change and forest dynamics (poster), Hawaii Conservation Conference, July 2009.

Ostertag, R., C. Giardina, S. Cordell, L. Sack, L. Ellsworth, and F. Inman. HIPPNET: Hawai‘i’s Permanent Plot Network for Research, Monitoring, and Education (poster). Hawai‘i Conservation Conference, July 2008.

Sack, L., S. Cordell, R. Ostertag, C. Giardina, and C. Cole. The Hawai‘i Permanent Plot Network (HIPPNET) for Monitoring, Research, and Education (poster). Hawai‘i Conservation Conference, July 2007.