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Assess Potential Effects of Global Climate Change on Hawaiian High-elev. EcosystemsPIERC Project Leader: Lloyd Loope, Ph.D. |
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Objectives: Develop models of microclimate and hydrology response to GCC Explore available paleoecological resources/evidence Test responses of selected organisms as indicators of global change |
| Accomplishments: Climate network in place & operating, w/ 9 years or more of data and monthly summaries Prelim. analyses of vegetation, surface pollen, & pollen cores Faunal analyses of Megalagriondamselflies in progress
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Significance: “Listening post in the tropical Pacific” (high-elev. mountains through trade-wind inversion) Best microclimate elevational transect data set in Hawai‘i Potential predictive value for future water supplies |
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