Field trip with IPIF staff

Jean Stoner, Rick Bottons, Faith and Pam Holton enter the forest.

Tailgate safety session. Rule #1. Don't get hurt! 

Pam Holton in her pink boots. Menehune watch out!

The finer points of pressing plants with Rick Bottoms.

These are the outbuildings of the new Forest Service house at Laupahoehoe.

Here's the main house...can't wait until it's ready for visiting researchers.

After a hard day in the field we get pie and sodas at the 50's diner in Laupahoehoe town. From left: Jean Stoner, Holli Tidwell, Faith Inman-Narahari, Pam Holton and Rick Bottoms. 

Seed counting supplies

All the stuff you need to get the data.

Spent today counting seeds from the dry-forest traps and found a few extra treasures.

 Female lama flower with petals removed (Diospyros sandwicensis)

Male lama flower with petals intact (Diospyros sandwicensis)

Fun with spatial statistics

Seedling recensus at Laupahoehoe

The last seedling plot of the Summer 2011 recensus!

Olapa seedling #21 (Cheirodendron trigynum)

Ohia seedling #76 (Metrosideros polymorpha) 

Presenting at the Hawaii Ecosystems meeting, Hilo HI

Results of my analysis of seed trap and seedling plot data from Laupahoehoe - species vary!

Cross-plot comparison of recruitment limitation  - not as different as we thought they would be.