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Legacy Forest Data
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Rescuing hidden 20th century forest data and related resources from all regions. Official Account of IUFRO Task Force 57 "Legacy Forest Data and Related Resources" https://www.iufro.org/task-forces/t57-legacy-forest-data-and-related-resources
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Legacy Forest Data @legacyforestinfo.bsky.social · Jul 30
IUFRO Task Force 57 was established in 2025 to rescue old forest data from boreal🌲, temperate🌳, subtropical🌵 and tropical🌴 regions. We will focus on numerical data, but other ‘data’ such as old photos, maps, and "lost" reports are also important. We´ll present an interesting selection here...
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Legacy Forest Data @legacyforestinfo.bsky.social · Aug 10
Dieter #Mueller-Dombois would have turned 100 years old these days. He died in 2022, one week before his 97th birthday. His archive on the #vegetation of the tropical #Pacific islands consists of countless notes, documents and slides. Context: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
(PDF) Professor Dieter Mueller-Dombois (1925-2022), obituary
PDF | On Dec 15, 2022, Hans Juergen Boehmer published Professor Dieter Mueller-Dombois (1925-2022), obituary | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate
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Legacy Forest Data @legacyforestinfo.bsky.social · Aug 10
The amount and quality of legacy data in the #Mueller-Dombois archive is overwhelming. This is a box with unpublished works for the #Smithsonian Institute from the period in #SriLanka (former Ceylon) 1967-69. Context: esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.2307/...
A box with dozens of unpublished works for the Smithsonian Institute from Dieter Mueller-Dombois´ research in Sri Lanka (former Ceylon) 1967-69. There, he studied effects of elephants on the woody vegetation in a major wild elephant refuge in the island´s southeastern dry zone.
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Legacy Forest Data @legacyforestinfo.bsky.social · Aug 5
Dieter´s interdisciplinary research into the causes of large-scale #forest #dieback in forests on the islands of #Hawai´i throughout the 1970s and 80s had a global impact and can be seen as exemplary for modern multi-causal forest #decline #research. Context: muse.jhu.edu/pub/5/articl...
Early 1980s: Dieter Mueller-Dombois and Mallikarjuna Aradhya pulling a Metrosideros polymorpha sapling out of organic peat somewhere in Hawai´i´s rainforest. Courtesy of Annette Mueller-Dombois.
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Legacy Forest Data @legacyforestinfo.bsky.social · Aug 2
Prof. Mueller-Dombois has been studying #forest #dieback in the Hawaiian #Islands since the late 1960s. This aerial photograph was taken during a reconnaisance flight over the dieback area in #Alaka´i Swamp, Kaua´i, in March 1972. Photo by D. M.-D.. Context: www.google.de/books/editio...
March 1972: Hawai´i, Island of Kaua´i, Alaka´i Swamp area. Aerial photograph of forest dieback. Dying and dead Metrosideros trees stand out in grey against the few remaining healthy, green trees. Note on slide: `Terminal dieback, Alaka´i, March 1972`. Photo by Dieter Mueller-Dombois. The Alakaʻi Swamp (Alakaʻi Wilderness Preserve) is a montane rainforest on the island of Kaua´i in Hawai´i, located on a plateau near Mount Waiʻaleʻale, one of the wettest places on Earth. Although it is called a swamp, it is actually a rainforest.
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Legacy Forest Data @legacyforestinfo.bsky.social · Aug 1
Let's start with our header. August 1976, Hawaii, Big Island, Saddle Road area: Prof. Dieter Mueller-Dombois, University of Hawaii at Manoa, takes notes on the dieback of native Ohia trees (Metrosideros polymorpha). Photo by James D. Jacobi. Context: scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/server/api/c...
August 1976, Island of Hawaii (Big Island), Saddle Road area: Professor Dieter Mueller-Dombois, Botany Department, University of Hawaii at Manoa, takes notes on the decline (dieback) of native ohia lehua trees (Metrosideros polymorpha). Photograph by James D. Jacobi.
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Legacy Forest Data @legacyforestinfo.bsky.social · Jul 30
IUFRO Task Force 57 was established in 2025 to rescue old forest data from boreal🌲, temperate🌳, subtropical🌵 and tropical🌴 regions. We will focus on numerical data, but other ‘data’ such as old photos, maps, and "lost" reports are also important. We´ll present an interesting selection here...
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