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Kainana S. Francisco

Former Employee
Kainana S. Francisco
Natural Resource Specialist
Pacific Southwest Research Station

Treesearch Publications

  • Marcelo Callegari Scipioni, Paul R. Sheppard, Lucas C.R. Silva, Franziska Slotta, Leroy Soria-Díaz, Luciana K.V.S. Sousa, James H. Speer, Matthew D. Therrell, Ginette Ticse-Otarola, Mario Tomazello-Filho, Max C.A. Torbenson, Pantana Tor-Ngern, Ramzi Touchan, Jan Van den Bulcke, Lorenzo Vázquez-Selem, Adín H. Velázquez-Pérez, Alejandro Venegas-González, Ricardo Villalba, Jose Villanueva-Diaz, Mart Vlam, George Vourlitis, Christian Wehenkel, Tommy Wils, Erika S. Zavaleta, Eshetu Asfaw Zewdu, Yong-Jiang Zhang, Zhe-Kun Zhou, Flurin Babst, Pieter A. Zuidema, Peter Groenendijk, Mizanur Rahman, Valerie Trouet, Abrham Abiyu, Rodolfo Acuña-Soto, Eduardo Adenesky-Filho, Raquel Alfaro-Sánchez, Claudio Roberto Anholetto, José Roberto Vieira Aragão, Gabriel Assis-Pereira, Claudia C. Astudillo-Sánchez, Ana Carolina Barbosa, Giovanna Battipaglia, Hans Beeckman, Paulo Cesar Botosso, Nils Bourland, Achim Bräuning, Roel Brienen, Matthew Brookhouse, Supaporn Buajan, Brendan M. Buckley, J. Julio Camarero, Artemio Carrillo-Parra, Gregório Ceccantini, Librado R. Centeno-Erguera, Julián Cerano-Paredes, Rosalinda Cervantes-Martínez, Wirong Chanthorn, Ya-Jun Chen, Bruno Barçante Ladvocat Cintra, Eladio Heriberto Cornejo-Oviedo, Otoniel Cortés-Cortés, Clayane Matos Costa, Camille Couralet, Doris Bianca Crispín-De-La-Cruz, Rosanne D’arrigo, Diego A. David, Maaike De Ridder, Jorge Ignacio Del Valle, Mário Dobner, Jean-Louis Doucet, Oliver Dünisch, Brian J. Enquist, Karin Esemann-Quadros, Gerardo Esquivel-Arriaga, Ze-Xin Fan, Adeline Fayolle, Tatiele Anete Bergamo Fenilli, M. Eugenia Ferrero, Esther Fichtler, Patrick M. Finnegan, Claudia Fontana, Kainana S. Francisco, Pei-Li Fu, Franklin Galvão, Aster Gebrekirstos, Jorge A. Giraldo, Emanuel Gloor, Milena Godoy-Veiga, Daniela Granato-Souza, Anthony Guerra, Kristof Haneca, Grant Logan Harley, Ingo Heinrich, Gerhard Helle, Bruna Hornink, Wannes Hubau, Janet G. Inga, Mahmuda Islam, Yu-Mei Jiang, Mark Kaib, Zakia Hassan Khamisi, Marcin Koprowski, Eva Layme, A. Joshua Leffler, Gauthier Ligot, Claudio Sergio Lisi, Neil J. Loader, Francisco De Almeida Lobo, Giuliano Maselli Locosselli, Tomaz Longhi-Santos, Lidio Lopez, María I López-Hernández, José Luís Penetra Cerveira Lousada, Rubén D. Manzanedo, Amanda K. Marcon, Justin T. Maxwell, Omar N. Mendoza-Villa, Ítallo Romany Nunes Menezes, Mulugeta Mokria, Valdinez Ribeiro Montóia, Eddy Moors, Miyer Moreno, Miguel Angel Muñiz-Castro, Cristina Nabais, Anuttara Nathalang, Justine Ngoma, Francisco De Carvalho Nogueira, Juliano Morales Oliveira, Gabriela Morais Olmedo, Daigard Ricardo Ortega-Rodriguez, Carmen Eugenia Rodríguez Ortíz, Mariana Alves Pagotto, Shankar Panthi, Kathelyn Paredes-Villanueva, Gonzalo Pérez-de-Lis, Laura Patricia Ponce Calderón, Leif Armando Portal-Cahuana, Darwin Alexander Pucha-Cofrep, Nathsuda Pumijumnong, Paulo Quadri, Jorge Andrés Ramírez, Edilson Jimmy Requena-Rojas, Judith Reyes-Flores, Adauto de Souza Ribeiro, Iain Robertson, Fidel Alejandro Roig, José Guilherme Roquette, Ernesto Alonso Rubio-Camacho, Raúl Sánchez-Salguero, Ute Sass-Klaassen, Jochen Schöngart. 2025. Pantropical tree rings show small effects of drought on stem growth
  • Bernice C. Hwang, Christian P. Giardina, M. Noelia Barrios-Garcia, Haoyu Diao, Virginia Gisela Duboscq-Carra, Andreas Hemp, Claudia Hemp, Mylthon Jiménez-Castillo, Paulina Lobos-Catalán, Levan Mumladze, Ana C. Palma, Ion Catalin Petritan, Mariano A. Rodriguez-Cabal, Tommi Andersson, Kainana S. Francisco, Shelley A. Gage, Giorgi Iankoshvili, Seana K. Walsh, Daniel B. Metcalfe. 2025. Insect herbivory releases more nutrients in warmer and drier forests
  • Bernice C. Hwang, Christian P. Giardina, Stephen Adu-Bredu, M. Noelia Barrios-Garcia, Julio C. Calvo-Alvarado, Greta C. Dargie, Haoyu Diao, Virginia G. Duboscq-Carra, Andreas Hemp, Claudia Hemp, Walter Huaraca Huasco, Aleksandr V Ivanov, Nels G. Johnson, Dries P. J. Kuijper, Simon L. Lewis, Paulina Lobos-Catalán, Yadvinder Malhi, Andrew R. Marshall, Levan Mumladze, Alain Senghor K. Ngute, Ana C. Palma, Ion Catalin Petritan, Mariano A. Rordriguez-Cabal, Ifo A. Suspense, Asiia Zagidullina, Tommi Andersson, Darcy F. Galiano-Cabrera, Mylthon Jiménez-Castillo, Marcin Churski, Shelley A. Gage, Nina Filippova, Kainana S. Francisco, Morgan Gaglianese-Woody, Giorgi Iankoshvili, Mgeta Adidas Kaswamila, Herman Lyatuu, Y. E. Mampouya Wenina, Brayan Materu, M. Mbemba, Ruslan Moritz, Karma Orang, Sergey Plyusnin, Beisit L. Puma Vilca, Maria Rodríguez-Solís, Pavel Šamonil, Kinga M. Stępniak, Seana K. Walsh, Han Xu, Daniel B. Metcalfe. 2024. The impact of insect herbivory on biogeochemical cycling in broadleaved forests varies with temperature
  • Kylle Roy, Susan J. Frankel, Lauren Oakes, Kainana S. Francisco, Kekuhi Kealiʻikanakaʻoleohaililani, Rachael A. Sitz, Emily Huff, John Schelhas. 2024. Perceptions of tree diseases in Indigenous communities: Native Alaskan and Hawaiian insights
  • Megan M. Seeley, Roberta E. Martin, Christian P. Giardina, Blaine Luiz, Kainana S. Francisco, Zachary Cook, Marc A. Hughes, Gregory P. Asner. 2023. Leaf spectroscopy of resistance to Ceratocystis wilt of ‘Ōhi’a
  • Shankar Panthi, Gonzalo Pérez-De-Lis, Darwin Pucha-Cofrep, Nathsuda Pumijumnong, Mizanur Rahman, Jorge Andres Ramirez, Edilson Jimmy Requena-Rojas, Adauto de Souza Ribeiro, Iain Robertson, Fidel Alejandro Roig, Ernesto Alonso Rubio-Camacho, Ute Sass-Klaassen, Jochen Schöngart, Paul R. Sheppard, Franziska Slotta, James H. Speer, Matthew D. Therrell, Benjamin Toirambe, Mario Tomazello-Filho, Max C. A. Torbenson, Ramzi Touchan, Alejandro Venegas-González, Ricardo Villalba, Jose Villanueva-Diaz, Royd Vinya, Mart Vlam, Tommy Wils, Zhe-Kun Zhou, Pieter A. Zuidema, Flurin Babst, Peter Groenendijk, Valerie Trouet, Abrham Abiyu, Rodolfo Acuña-Soto, Eduardo Adenesky-Filho, Raquel Alfaro-Sánchez, José Roberto Vieira Aragão, Gabriel Assis-Pereira, Xue Bai, Ana Carolina Barbosa, Giovanna Battipaglia, Hans Beeckman, Paulo Cesar Botosso, Tim Bradley, Achim Bräuning, Roel Brienen, Brendan M. Buckley, J. Julio Camarero, Ana Carvalho, Gregório Ceccantini, Librado R. Centeno-Erguera, Julián Cerano-Paredes, Álvaro Agustín Chávez-Durán, Bruno Barçante Ladvocat Cintra, Malcolm K. Cleaveland, Camille Couralet, Rosanne D’Arrigo, Jorge Ignacio del Valle, Oliver Dünisch, Brian J. Enquist, Karin Esemann-Quadros, Zewdu Eshetu, Ze-Xin Fan, M. Eugenia Ferrero, Esther Fichtler, Claudia Fontana, Kainana S. Francisco, Aster Gebrekirstos, Emanuel Gloor, Daniela Granato-Souza, Kristof Haneca, Grant Logan Harley, Ingo Heinrich, Gerd Helle, Janet G. Inga, Mahmuda Islam, Yu-mei Jiang, Mark Kaib, Zakia Hassan Khamisi, Marcin Koprowski, Bart Kruijt, Eva Layme, Rik Leemans, A. Joshua Leffler, Claudio Sergio Lisi, Neil J. Loader, Giuliano Maselli Locosselli, Lidio Lopez, María I López-Hernández, José Luís Penetra Cerveira Lousada, Hooz A. Mendivelso, Mulugeta Mokria, Valdinez Ribeiro Montóia, Eddy Moors, Cristina Nabais, Justine Ngoma, Francisco de Carvalho Nogueira Júnior, Juliano Morales Oliveira, Gabriela Morais Olmedo, Mariana Alves Pagotto. 2022. Tropical tree growth driven by dry-season climate variability
  • Bernice Hwang, Christian P. Giardina, Creighton M. Litton, Kainana S. Francisco, Cody Pacheco, Naneaikealaula Thomas, Tyler Uehara, Daniel B. Metcalfe. 2022. Impacts of insect frass and cadavers on soil surface litter decomposition along a tropical forest temperature gradient
  • Katie L. Kamelamela, Hannah Kihalani Springer, Roberta Ku'ulei Keakealani, Moana Ulu Ching, Tamara Ticktin, Rebekah Dickens Ohara, Elliott W. Parsons, Edith D. Adkins, Kainana S. Francisco, Christian P. Giardina. 2022. Kōkua aku, kōkua mai: an indigenous consensus-driven and place-based approach to community led dryland restoration and stewardship
  • Blaine C. Luiz, Christian P. Giardina, Lisa M. Keith, Douglass F. Jacobs, Richard A. Sniezko, Marc A. Hughes, James B. Friday, Philip Cannon, Robert Hauff, Kainana S. Francisco, Marian M. Chau, Nicklos Dudley, Aileen Yeh, Gregory Asner, Roberta E. Martin, Ryan Perroy, Brian J. Tucker, ʻAleʻalani Evangelista, Veronica Fernandez, Chloe Martins-Keliʻihoʻomalu, Kirie Santos, Rebekah Ohara. 2022. A framework for establishing a rapid ‘Ōhi‘a death resistance program
  • Kekuhi Kealiikanakaoleohaililani, Aimee Y. Sato, Christian P. Giardina, Creighton M. Litton, Smrity Ramavarapu, Leslie Hutchins, Evelyn H. Wight, Michelle Clark, Susan Cordell, Kainana S. Francisco, Heather McMillen, Pua‘ala Pascua, Darcy Yogi. 2021. Increasing conservation capacity by embracing ritual: kuahu as a portal to the sacred
  • Rachel Dacks, Heather McMillen, Pua Heimuli, Kimberly Kahaleua, Sanoe Burgess, Christian P. Giardina, Kainana S. Francisco, Tamara Ticktin. 2021. The important role of environmental stewardship groups in supporting human health and well-being
  • Sarah Barney, Devin Leopold, Kainana S. Francisco, David Flaspohler, Tadashi Fukami, Christian P. Giardina, Daniel Gruner, Jessie Knowlton, William Pitt, Erin E. Wilson Rankin. 2021. Successful management of invasive rats across a fragmented landscape
  • Heather McMillen, Lindsay K. Campbell, Christian P. Giardina, Erika Svendsen, Kekuhi Kealiikanakaoleohaililani, Kainana S. Francisco. 2020. Living in kinship within urban landscapes through equitable, multicultural, and collaborative stewardship in New York City
  • Heather McMillen, Lindsay K. Campbell, Erika Svendsen, Kekuhi Kealiikanakaoleohaililani, Kainana S. Francisco, Christian P. Giardina. 2020. Biocultural stewardship, Indigenous and local ecological knowledge, and the urban crucible
  • Kekuhi Kealiikanakaoleohaililani, Heather McMillen, Christian P. Giardina, Kainana S. Francisco. 2019. Green readiness, response, and recovery
  • Kekuhi Kealiikanakaoleohaililani, Natalie Kurashima, Kainana S. Francisco, Christian P. Giardina, Renee Louis, Heather McMillen, C. Asing, Kayla Asing, Tabetha Block, Mililani Browning, Kualii Camara, Lahela Camara, Melanie Dudley, Monika Frazier, Noah Gomes, Amy Gordon, Marc Gordon, Linnea Heu, Aliah Irvine, Nohea Kaawa, Sean Kirkpatrick, Emily Leucht, Cheyenne Perry, John Replogle, Lasha-Lynn Salbosa, Aimee Sato, Linda Schubert, Amelie Sterling, Amanda L. Uowolo, Jermy Uowolo, Bridget Walker, A. Whitehead, Darcy Yogi. 2018. Ritual + sustainability science? A portal into the science of aloha
  • Kainana S. Francisco, Patrick J. Hart, Jinbao Li, Edward R. Cook, Patrick J. Baker. 2015. Annual rings in a native Hawaiian tree, Sophora chrysophylla, on Maunakea, Hawai‘i

Citations of Non-Forest Service Publications

  • Francisco, Kainana S.; Hart, Patrick J.; Li, Jinbao; Cook, Edward R.; Baker, Patrick J. 2015. Annual Rings in a Native Hawaiian Tree, Sophora chrysophylla, on Maunakea, Hawaii. Journal of Tropical Ecology 31(6): 567-571.Bell, Rayna C.; Belmaker, Amos; Couch, Courtney S.; Marchetto, Katherine M.; Simonis, Joseph L.; Thomas, R. Quinn; Sparks, Jed P.; Brown, Julia M.; Francisco, Kainana S.; Manuel, Mark E. 2013. Effectiveness of Erythrina Gall Wasp Biocontrol and Implications for the Recovery of Threatened Wiliwili Trees (Fabaceae: Erythrina sandwicensis). Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society 140(2): 215-224.
  • Hawaii Community College, Academic Subject Certificate, Hawaiian Life Styles, 2013
  • University of Hawaii at Hilo, M.S., Tropical Conservation Biology & Environmental Science, 2012
  • University of Hawaii at Hilo, B.S., Environmental Science, 2008
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