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2532

Overview

R. Flint Hughes is affiliated with the US Forest Service in the United States. Their research focuses predominantly on environmental science, with a particular emphasis on forest ecosystems and related ecological dynamics.

The scientist's recent work includes the following papers:

  • Biology and Impacts of Pacific Islands Invasive Species: Falcataria falcata (Miquel) Barneby and Grimes (Fabaceae), 2024, Pacific Science
  • How invaded are Hawaiian forests? Non-native understory tree dominance signals potential canopy replacement, 2023, Landscape Ecology
  • Multi-scale remote sensing-based landscape epidemiology of the spread of rapid 'Ōhiʻa Death in Hawaiʻi, 2023, Forest Ecology and Management
  • Hypotheses and lessons from a native moth outbreak in a low-diversity, tropical rainforest, 2022, Ecosphere
  • Spatial Patterns of 'Ōhi'a Mortality Associated with Rapid 'Ōhi'a Death and Ungulate Presence, 2021, Forests

Their research covers multiple main topics including:

  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Forest Insect Ecology and Management
  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
  • Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases

R. Flint Hughes contributes extensively to the subfields of environmental science including:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Ecology
  • Plant Science
  • Geography, Planning and Development

The scientist frequently publishes in journals such as:

  • Pacific Science
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Forests
  • Ecosphere
  • Landscape Ecology

Collaboration is a significant aspect of their research. The most frequent co-authors include:

  • Gregory P. Asner
  • Christian P. Giardina
  • Nicholas R. Vaughn
  • Dennis Grossman
  • Sinan Sousan

Their work involves understanding complex ecological and environmental interactions, with particular attention to forest health, invasive species biology, and the spatial epidemiology of tree diseases such as rapid 'Ōhiʻa death in Hawaii.

Best Publications

  • High-resolution forest carbon stocks and emissions in the Amazon

    Gregory P. Asner;George V. N. Powell;Joseph Mascaro;David E. Knapp

  • Net changes in regional woody vegetation cover and carbon storage in Texas Drylands, 1937–1999

    Gregory P. Asner;Steve Archer;R. Flint Hughes;R. James Ansley

  • Invasive plants transform the three-dimensional structure of rain forests.

    Gregory P. Asner;R. Flint Hughes;Peter M. Vitousek;David E. Knapp

  • Alien Grass Invasion and Fire In the Seasonal Submontane Zone of Hawai'i

    Flint Hughes;Peter M. Vitousek;Timothy Tunison

  • Remote sensing of native and invasive species in Hawaiian forests

    Gregory P. Asner;Matthew O. Jones;Roberta E. Martin;David E. Knapp

  • Invasive species detection in Hawaiian rainforests using airborne imaging spectroscopy and LiDAR.

    Gregory P. Asner;David E. Knapp;Ty Kennedy-Bowdoin;Matthew O. Jones

  • INVASION BY A N2-FIXING TREE ALTERS FUNCTION AND STRUCTURE IN WET LOWLAND FORESTS OF HAWAII

    R. Flint Hughes;Julie S. Denslow

  • Hyperspectral Remote Sensing of Canopy Biodiversity in Hawaiian Lowland Rainforests

    Kimberly M. Carlson;Gregory P. Asner;R. Flint Hughes;Rebecca Ostertag

  • Environmental and Biotic Controls over Aboveground Biomass Throughout a Tropical Rain Forest

    Gregory P. Asner;R. Flint Hughes;Timothy A. Varga;David E. Knapp

  • The response of native species to removal of invasive exotic grasses in a seasonally dry Hawaiian woodland

    Carla M. D'Antonio;R. Flint Hughes;Michelle Mack;Derek Hitchcock

  • Changes in aboveground primary production and carbon and nitrogen pools accompanying woody plant encroachment in a temperate savanna

    R. Flint Hughes;Steven R. Archer;Gregory P. Asner;Carol A. Wessman

  • Elevated enzyme activities in soils under the invasive nitrogen-fixing tree Falcataria moluccana.

    Steven D. Allison;Caroline Nielsen;R. Flint Hughes

  • Aboveground biomass and structure of rainforests in the southwestern Brazilian Amazon

    D.L. Cummings;J. Boone Kauffman;David A. Perry;R. Flint Hughes

  • Factors influencing dynamics of two invasive C4 grasses in seasonally dry Hawaiian woodlands

    Carla M. D'Antonio;R. Flint Hughes;Peter M. Vitousek

  • Carbon pool and biomass dynamics associated with deforestation, land use, and agricultural abandonment in the neotropics

    J. Boone Kauffman;R. Flint Hughes;Chris Heider

  • Novel forests maintain ecosystem processes after the decline of native tree species

    Joseph Mascaro;R. Flint Hughes;Stefan A. Schnitzer;Stefan A. Schnitzer

  • High-resolution carbon mapping on the million-hectare Island of Hawaii

    Gregory P Asner;R Flint Hughes;Joseph Mascaro;Amanda L Uowolo

  • Fire in the Brazilian Amazon

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  • Minimizing Bias in Biomass Allometry: Model Selection and Log‐Transformation of Data

    Joseph Mascaro;Joseph Mascaro;Joseph Mascaro;Creighton M. Litton;R. Flint Hughes;Amanda Uowolo

  • Long-term impacts of invasive grasses and subsequent fire in seasonally dry Hawaiian woodlands.

    Carla M. D'Antonio;R. F. Hughes;J. T. Tunison

  • Limitations to seedling establishment in a mesic Hawaiian forest.

    Julie S. Denslow;Amanda L. Uowolo;R. Flint Hughes

Frequent Co-Authors

Gregory P. Asner
Gregory P. Asner Arizona State University
Joseph Mascaro
Joseph Mascaro Breakthrough Institute
Stefan A. Schnitzer
Stefan A. Schnitzer Marquette University
David E. Knapp
David E. Knapp Arizona State University
Roberta E. Martin
Roberta E. Martin Arizona State University
Rebecca Ostertag
Rebecca Ostertag University of Hawaii at Hilo
Christian P. Giardina
Christian P. Giardina US Forest Service
Creighton M. Litton
Creighton M. Litton University of Hawaii at Manoa
Todd J. Hawbaker
Todd J. Hawbaker United States Geological Survey
Peter M. Vitousek
Peter M. Vitousek Stanford University

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