The Herbarium Pacificum, Bishop Museum, is producing
an interactive plant key for riparian restoration with native Hawaiian
species.
It is the compilation of information from field trials, current
restoration projects, and comprehensive research. This project
has been developed based on the need identified by the working
group of “Riparian
Vegetation for Soil Bioengineering in Hawaii (April, 29, 2003)”.
The initial modeling phase has been funded by the Tropical
Technology Consortium of Natural
Resources Conservation Service.
The modeling phase entails building a framework of characters
and attributes of riparian habitats, along with comprehensive data
on 20 plus native Hawaiian species. With the use of the powerful
interactive database system LucID Professional, each plant species
will be linked to its ideal habitat based on its attributes. As
the user chooses various attributes of their site, for example
the type of habitat, planting zone, soil composition, soil pH,
hydrology, elevation, climate, and so on, the program eliminates
the unfavorable taxa, leaving a short list of those plants, within
this key, suitable for the site habitat.
Each of the species in the database has an information page containing
valuable data on its habitat, growing conditions, propagation techniques,
wetland rating, and trials with successes and failure information
from the field. Also provided are various images of the chosen
species.
Click here
to link to
Riparian
Plant Restoration: A management tool for restoration in Hawai‘i
For More Information:
Laura
Crago
lcrago@bishopmuseum.org
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