Kauaʻi Conservation Atlas

Kauaʻi record · KCA-THR-0006

Rapid ʻŌhiʻa Death

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About Rapid ʻŌhiʻa Death

A recurring Kauaʻi conservation pressure: Rapid ʻŌhiʻa Death.

Names and classification

Record type
threat

Kauaʻi occurrence and status

Recorded state
Present on Kauaʻi / actively managed

Threats and conservation

Pressure source
Ceratocystis huliohia and C. lukuohia
Exposure pathway
Pathogen enters wounds and colonizes ʻōhiʻa vascular tissues; human/animal movement can spread contaminated material
Consequences
Tree mortality; canopy loss; altered hydrology/habitat; cascading ecological effects
Affected requirements
ʻŌhiʻa survival, forest canopy, watershed function and dependent species habitat
Susceptibility
ʻŌhiʻa-dominated forests, watersheds and species dependent on ʻōhiʻa
Reversibility
Individual infected trees generally not curable; landscape consequences may be reduced by sanitation, wound prevention and resistant-tree work
Early warning indicators
New ʻōhiʻa mortality; lab-positive trees; wound incidence; disease-front movement

Conservation interventions

Implementation limits
Magnitude, exposure and trend are not assumed uniform across Kauaʻi; local evidence governs.

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