Flint F. Hughes, PhD

Treesearch Publications

• Dylan Hyun, Marc A. Hughes, Nels G. Johnson, Flint F. Hughes, Peter M. Vitousek. 2025. In vitro assays suggest rapid ‘ōhi‘a death fungi can colonize Metrosideros polymorpha fine roots
• Flint F. Hughes, Caitlin Morrison, Edward Bufil, James Leary. 2025. Ecosystem response to management of an invasive N₂-fixing tree in Hawaiʻi
• Flint F. Hughes, Aidan Anderson, David R. Clements, Joanna Norton, Rebecca Ostertag. 2024. Biology and Impacts of Pacific Islands Invasive Species: Falcataria falcata (Miquel) Barneby and Grimes (Fabaceae)
• Flint F. Hughes, Dennis H. Grossman. 2024. Vegetation succession following clearcutting of lowland Hawaiian rainforest on the island of Hawai‘i
• Kevin M. Potter, Christian P. Giardina, Flint F. Hughes, Susan Cordell, Olaf Kuegler, Amy Koch, Emma Yuen. 2023. How invaded are Hawaiian forests? Non-native understory tree dominance signals potential canopy replacement.
• Nicholas R. Vaughn, Flint F. Hughes, Gregory P. Asner. 2023. Multi-scale remote sensing-based landscape epidemiology of the spread of rapid ‘Ōhiʻa Death in Hawaiʻi
• Olaf Kuegler, Ashley Lehman, Flint F. Hughes, Jane Terzibashian, Irene Sprecher, Thomas Thompson, Seth Ayotte, Mikhail Yatskov, Michelle Silva, Suzanne M. Owen. 2022. Hawai‘i’s forest resources: Forest Inventory and Analysis, 2010–2015
• Flint F. Hughes, Dennis Grossman, Travis Sowards, Jonathan D. Marshall, Dieter Mueller‐Dombois. 2022. Aboveground carbon accumulation by second‐growth forests after deforestation in Hawai'i
• Philip Cannon, James B. Friday, Thomas Harrington, Lisa Keith, Marc Hughes, Rob Hauff, Flint F. Hughes, Ryan Perroy, David Benitez, Kylle Roy, Robert Peck, Sheri Smith, Blaine Luiz, Susan Cordell, Christian P. Giardina, Jennifer Juzwik, Stephanie Yelenik, Zachary Cook. 2022. Rapid ‘Ohi‘a death in Hawai‘i [Chapter 15]
• Erin Weingarten, Roberta E. Martin, Flint F. Hughes, Nicholas R. Vaughn, Ethan Shafron, Gregory P. Asner. 2022. Early detection of a tree pathogen using airborne remote sensing
• Ryan L. Perroy, Timo Sullivan, David Benitez, Flint F. Hughes, Lisa M. Keith, Eva Brill, Karma Kissinger, Daniel Duda. 2021. Spatial Patterns of ‘Ōhi‘a Mortality Associated with Rapid ‘Ōhi‘a Death and Ungulate Presence
• B.D. Dudley, Flint F. Hughes, G.P. Asner, Jim Baldwin, Y. Miyazawa, H. Dulai, C. Waters, J. Bishop, N.R. Vaughn, J. Yeh, S. Kettwich, Richard A. MacKenzie, R. Ostertag, T. Giambelluca. 2020. Hydrological effects of tree invasion on a dry coastal Hawaiian ecosystem
• Rebecca M. Niemiec, Greg P. Asner, Julie A. Gaertner, Philip G. Brodrick, Nick Vaughn, Joseph Heckler, Flint F. Hughes, Lisa Keith, Tracie Matsumoto. 2020. Using spatially explicit, time‐dependent analysis to understand how social factors influence conservation outcomes
• Lucas B. Fortini, Lauren R. Kaiser, Lisa M. Keith, Jonathan Price, Flint F. Hughes, James D. Jacobi, J.B. Friday. 2019. The evolving threat of Rapid ‘Ōhi‘a Death (ROD) to Hawai‘i’s native ecosystems and rare plant species
• Sharon J. Hall, David P. Huber, Flint F. Hughes. 2018. Invasion of Hawaiian rainforests by an introduced amphibian predator and N₂-fixing tree increases soil N₂O emissions
• Flint F. Hughes, Gregory P. Asner, Jim Baldwin, Joseph Mascaro, Lori Bufil, David E. Knapp. 2018. Estimating aboveground carbon density across forest landscapes of Hawaii: Combining FIA plot-derived estimates and airborne LiDAR
• Gregory Asner, Roberta Martin, Lisa Keith, Wade Heller, Marc Hughes, Nicholas Vaughn, Flint F. Hughes, Christopher Balzotti. 2018. A spectral mapping signature for the Rapid Ohia Death (ROD) pathogen in Hawaiian forests
• Nicholas Vaughn, Gregory Asner, Philip Brodrick, Roberta Martin, Joseph Heckler, David Knapp, Flint F. Hughes. 2018. An approach for high-resolution mapping of Hawaiian Metrosideros forest mortality using laser-guided imaging spectroscopy
• Jomar M. Barbosa, Gregory P. Asner, Flint F. Hughes, Tracy Johnson. 2017. Landscape-scale GPP and carbon density inform patterns and impacts of an invasive tree across wet forests of Hawaii
• Gregory P. Asner, Flint F. Hughes, Creighton M. Litton, Paul C. Selmants, Todd J. Hawbaker, James D. Jacobi, Christian P. Giardina, Benjamin M. Sleeter. 2017. Influence of invasive species on carbon storage in Hawai‘i's ecosystems
• Todd J. Hawbaker, Clay Trauernicht, Stephen M. Howard, Creighton M. Litton, Christian P. Giardina, James D. Jacobi, Lucas B. Fortini, Flint F. Hughes, Paul C. Selmants, Zhiliang Zhu. 2017. Wildland fires and greenhouse gas emissions in Hawai‘i
• Benjamin M. Sleeter, Jinxun Liu, Colin J. Daniel, Todd J. Hawbaker, Tamara S. Wilson, Lucas B. Fortini, James D. Jacobi, Paul C. Selmants, Christian P. Giardina, Creighton M. Litton, Flint F. Hughes. 2017. Projected future carbon storage and carbon fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems of Hawai‘i from changes in climate, land use, and disturbance
• Paul C. Selmants, Christian P. Giardina, James D. Jacobi, Lucas B. Fortini, Flint F. Hughes, Todd J. Hawbaker, Richard A. MacKenzie, Benjamin M. Sleeter, Zhiliang Zhu. 2017. Executive Summary—Baseline and projected future carbon storage and carbon fluxes in ecosystems of Hawai‘i
• L. Loope, Flint F. Hughes, L. Keith, T. Harrington, R. Hauff, J.B. Friday, C. Ewing, G. Bennett, P. Cannon, C. Atkinson, C. Martin, M. Melzer. 2016. Guidance document for Rapid Ohia Death: background for the 2017-2019 ROD Strategic Response Plan
• Leif Mortenson, Flint F. Hughes, James B. Friday, Lisa M. Keith, Jomar M. Barbosa, Nathanael J. Friday, Zhanfeng Liu, Travis Sowards. 2016. Assessing spatial distribution, stand impacts and rate of Ceratocystis fimbriata induced ‘ōhi‘a (Metrosideros polymorpha) mortality in a tropical wet forest, Hawai‘i Island, USA
• Yoshiyuki Miyazawa, Bruce D. Dudley, Flint F. Hughes, Joshua Vandemark, Susan Cordell, Michael A. Nullet, Rebecca Ostertag, Thomas W. Giambelluca. 2016. Non-native tree in a dry coastal area in Hawai'i has high transpiration but restricts water use despite phreatophytic trait
• Gregory P. Asner, Sinan Sousan, David E. Knapp, Paul C. Selmants, Roberta E. Martin, Flint F. Hughes, Christian P. Giardina. 2016. Rapid forest carbon assessments of oceanic islands: a case study of the Hawaiian archipelago
• Kehauwealani K. Nelson-Kaula, Rebecca Ostertag, Flint F. Hughes, Bruce D. Dudley. 2016. Nutrient and organic matter inputs to Hawaiian anchialine ponds: influences of N-fixing and non-N-fixing trees
• Jomar Barbosa, Gregory Asner, Roberta Martin, Claire Baldeck, Flint F. Hughes, Tracy Johnson. 2016. Determining subcanopy Psidium cattleianum invasion in Hawaiian forests using imaging spectroscopy
• L. M. Keith, Flint F. Hughes, L. S. Sugiyama, W. P. Heller, B. C. Bushe, J. B. Friday. 2015. First Report of Ceratocystis Wilt on ˋŌhiˋa (Metrosideros polymorpha)
• Bruce D. Dudley, Flint F. Hughes, Rebecca Ostertag. 2014. Groundwater availability mediates the ecosystem effects of an invasion of Prosopis pallida
• B. D. Dudley, Richard A. MacKenzie, T. S. Sakihara, H. Dulaiova, C. A. Waters, Flint F. Hughes, R. Ostertag. 2014. Influences of N-fixing and non-N-fixing vegetation and invasive fish on water chemistry of Hawaiian anchialine ponds
• Flint F. Hughes, G.P. Asner, J. Mascaro, Amanda L. Uowolo, Jim Baldwin. 2014. Carbon storage landscapes of lowland Hawaii: The role of native and invasive species through space and time
• J. Mascaro, C. Litton, Flint F. Hughes, Amanda L. Uowolo, S. Schnitzer. 2014. Is logarithmic transformation necessary in allometry? Ten, one-hundred, one-thousand-times yes
• Lloyd L. Loope, Flint F. Hughes, Jean-Yves Meyer. 2013. Plant invasions in protected areas of tropical Pacific islands, with special reference to Hawaii
• Flint F. Hughes, Tracy Johnson, Amanda L. Uowolo. 2013. The invasive alien tree Falcataria moluccana: its impacts and management
• Tracy N. Wiegner, Flint F. Hughes, Lisa M. Shizuma, David K. Bishaw, Mark E. Manuel. 2013. Impacts of an invasive N2-fixing tree on Hawaiian stream water quality
• Flint F. Hughes, Stefan A. Schnitzer, Joseph Mascaro. 2012. Novel forests maintain ecosystem processes after the decline of native tree species
• Flint F. Hughes, Amanda L. Uowolo, Tavita P. Togia. 2012. Recovery of native forest after removal of an invasive tree, Falcataria moluccana, in American Samoa
• Joseph Mascaro, undefined undefined, Flint F. Hughes, Amanda L. Uowolo, Stefan A. Schnitzer. 2011. Minimizing bias in biomass allometry: Model selection and log transformation of data
• Carla M. D’Antonio, Flint F. Hughes, J. T. Tunison. 2011. Long term impacts of invasive grasses and subsequent fire in seasonally dry Hawaiian woodlands
• Gregory P. Asner, Flint F. Hughes, Joseph Mascaro, Amanda L. Uowolo, David E. Knapp, James Jacobson, Ty Kennedy-Bowdoin, John K . Clark. 2011. High-resolution carbon mapping on the million-hectare Island of Hawaii
• G. P. Asner, George V. N. Powell, Joseph Mascaro, David E. Knapp, John K. Clark, James Jacobson, Ty Kennedy-Bowdoin, Aravindh Balaji, Guayana Paez-Acosta, Eloy Victoria, Laura Secada, Michael Valqui, Flint F. Hughes. 2010. High-resolution forest carbon stocks and emissions in the Amazon
• G.P. Asner, Flint F. Hughes, T.A. Varga, D.E. Knapp, T. Kennedy-Bowdoin. 2009. Environmental and biotic controls over aboveground biomass throughout a tropical rainforest
• J.B. Kauffman, Flint F. Hughes, C. Heider. 2009. Carbon pool and biomass dynamics associated with deforestation, land use, and agricultural abandonment in the neotropics
• Gregory P. Asner, Matthew O. Jones, Roberta E. Martin, David E. Knapp, Flint F. Hughes. 2008. Remote sensing of native and invasive species in Hawaiian forests
• Gegory P. Asner, Flint F. Hughes, Peter M. Vitousek, David E. Knapp, Ty Kennedy-Bowdoin, Joseph Boardman, Roberta E. Martin, Michael Eastwood, Robert O. Green. 2008. Invasive plants transform the three-dimensional structure of rain forests
• Naupaka Zimmerman, Flint F. Hughes, Patrick Hart, Heather Kalei Chang, David Perez, Ryan Kaipoalohaakala Like, Rebecca Ostertag. 2008. Patterns of primary succession of native and introduced plants in lowland wet forests in eastern Hawaii
• Joseph Mascaro, Kristen K. Becklund, Flint F. Hughes, Stefan A. Schnitzer. 2008. Limited native plant regeneration in novel, exotic-dominated forests on Hawaii
• Pamela Anderson, Guoyi Zhoud, Boone Kauffman, Flint F. Hughes, David Schimel, Shuguang Liua, Vicente Watson, Joseph Tosi. 2008. Resolving model parameter values from carbon and nitrogen stock measurements in a wide range of tropical mature forests using nonlinear inversion and regression trees
• Gregory P. Asner, David E. Knapp, Ty Kennedy-Bodoin, Matthew O. Jones, Roberta E. Martin, Joseph Boardman, Flint F. Hughes. 2008. Invasive species detection in Hawaiian rainforests using airborne imaging spectroscopy and LiDAR
• Anne Marie LaRosa, J. Timothy Tunison, Alison Ainsworth, J. Boone Kauffman, Flint F. Hughes. 2008. Chapter 11: Fire and nonnative invasive plants in the Hawaiian Islands bioregion
• Kimberly M. Carlson, Gregory P. Asner, Flint F. Hughes, Rebecca Ostertag, Roberta E. Martin. 2007. Hyperspectral remote sensing of canopy biodiversity in Hawaiian lowland rainforests
• Steven D. Allison, Caroline Nielsen, Flint F. Hughes. 2006. Elevated enzyme activities in soils under the invasive nitrogen-fixing tree Falcataria moluccana
• Julie S. Denslow, Amanda L. Uowolo, Flint F. Hughes. 2006. Limitations to seedling establishment in a mesic Hawaiian forest
• Flint F. Hughes, Seeven R. Archer, Gegory P. Asner, Carol A. Wessman, Chad McMurtry, Jim Nelson, R. James Ansley. 2006. Changes in aboveground primary production and carbon and nitrogen pools accompanying woody plant encroachment in a temperate savanna
• Flint F. Hughes, Amanda L. Uowolo. 2006. Impacts of Falcataria moluccana invasion on decomposition in Hawaiian lowland wet forests: The importance of stand-level controls
• Flint F. Hughes, Julie S. Denslow. 2005. Invasion by a N₂-fixing tree alters function and structure in wet lowland forests of Hawaii
• Julie S. Denslow, Flint F. Hughes. 2004. Exotic plants as ecosystem dominants

• Program
  

  Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry (Pacific Zone – Hawaii and U.S. Affiliated Pacific Islands)

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/psw/programs/ipif
  Station

  Pacific Southwest Research Station
• Project
  

  Decision Support to Improve Ridge-to-Reef Stewardship in an Era of Rapid Global Change

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/psw/projects/hawaii-dst
  Station

  Pacific Southwest Research Station
• Project
  

  Increasing understanding and capacity to manage and mitigate Ceratocystis-caused Rapid ʻŌhiʻa Death (ROD) across Hawai’i

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/psw/projects/rod-initiative
  Station

  Pacific Southwest Research Station

Other Publications

• Brochure
  

  Perpetuating ‘Ōhi‘a Lehua for Future Generations: Rapid ‘Ōhi‘a Death Research

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/psw/understory/perpetuating-ohia-lehua-future-generations-rapid-ohia-death-research

Multimedia

• Webinars

  SCIENCEx Experimental Forests and Ranges Week: Looking Towards the Future

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/products/multimedia/webinars/sciencex-experimental-forests-and-ranges-week-looking-towards-future

• Department of Forest Science, Oregon State University, Ph.D., 1997
• Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University, M.S., 1992
• Stanford University, B.A., Department of Human Biology, 1991