Contact Information
Phone:(808) 956-3928
Email: ticktin@hawaii.edu

Link to Laboratory Site

• Ecological impacts of local and indigenous resource management systems (particularly effects on plant population dynamics, plant communities, and plant-plant and plant-animal interactions)
• Relationships between local resource management practices and the conservation of biodiversity
• Ecology and agroecology of tropical non-timber forest products
• Community-based conservation and restoration
• Development of participatory methodologies to integrate ecological sciences and traditional ecological knowledge for biocultural conservation
• Population ecology and conservation of Native Hawaiian plants

Statement
My research interests lie in understanding the ecological consequences of cultural uses of plants. I am particularly interested in understanding the ways in which local and indigenous resource management practices have shaped and continue to shape our natural environments. On a practical level, I am interested in applying this knowledge towards the conservation of biological and cultural diversity. My research draws on methods in quantitative plant ecology, population modeling and ethnoecology.

• Gaoue, O. and T. Ticktin. In Press. Impacts of bark and foliage harvest on Khaya senegalensis (Meliaceae) reproductive performance in Benin. Journal of Applied Ecology.
  
  
• Gaoue, O. and T. Ticktin. 2007. Patterns of harvesting foliage and bark from the multipurpose tree Khaya senegalensis in Benin: variation across ecological regions and its impacts on population structure. Biological Conservation 137: 424-436.
  
  
• Ticktin, T. H. Fraiola, and N. Whitehead. 2007. Non-timber forest product harvesting in alien-dominated forests: effects of frond-harvest and rainfall on the demography of two native Hawaiian ferns. Biodiversity and Conservation 16 (6): 1633-1651.
  
  
• Ticktin, T. N. Whitehead, and H. Fraiola 2006. Traditional gathering of native hula plants in alien-invaded Hawaiian forests: adaptive practices, impacts on alien invasive species, and conservation implications. Environmental Conservation 33 (3): 185-194.
  
  
• Trauernicht, C. T. Ticktin and G.L. Herrera 2006. Cultivation of nontimber forest products alters patterns of light availability in the understory of an old-growth humid tropical forest in Mexico. Biotropica 38 (3): 428-436.
  
  
• Ticktin, T. 2005. Applying a metapopulation framework to the management and conservation of a non-timber forest species. Forest Ecology and Management 206(1-3):249-261.
  
  
• Ticktin, T. and S. Dalle 2005. Medicinal plant use in the practice of midwifery in rural Honduras. Journal of Ethnopharmacology 96 (1-2): 233-249.
  
  
• Trauernicht, C. and T. Ticktin 2005. The effects of nontimber forest product cultivation on the plant community structure and composition of humid tropical rainforest in Southern Mexico. Forest Ecology and Management 219: 269-278.
  
  
• Ticktin, T. and R. Ganesan (forthcoming). Some issues related to the ecological sustainability of NTFP harvest in in South Asia. Pages XX-XX in Management, Utilization and Conservation of Non-timber forest products in the South Asia Region, eds. Uma Shaankar, G. Joseph, and A. Hiremath. Tata-McGraw Hill, Bangalore, India.
  
  
• Ticktin, T. and P. Nantel. 2004. Dynamics of harvested populations of a tropical understory herb in old-growth versus secondary forests. Biological Conservation 120 (4):461-470.
  
  
• Ticktin, T. 2004. The ecological implications of harvesting non-timber forest products. Journal of Applied Ecology 41(1):11-21.
  
  
• Etkin, N. and T.Ticktin. 2004. Integrating Ethnographic and Ecological Perspectives for Ethnopharmacology Field Research, in Ethnopharmacology, edited by E. Elizabetsky and N. Ektin, in Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS). Developed under the auspices of the UNESCO, EOLSS Publishers, Oxford, UK [http://www.eolss.net].
  
  
• Ticktin, T. 2003. Relationships between El niño southern oscillation and demographic patterns of a famine food for collared peccaries. Biotropica 35(2): 189-197.
  
  
• Ticktin, T., T. Johns, and V. Chopal Xoca. 2003. Patterns of growth in Aechmea magdalenae and its potential as a forest crop. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 94(2):123-139.
  
  
• Ticktin T., P. Nantel, F. Ramírez and T. Johns. 2002. Effects of variation on harvest limits for nontimber forest species in Mexico. Conservation Biology 16(3):691-705.
  
  
• Ticktin, T. and T. Johns. 2002. Chinanteco management of Aechmea magdalenae (Bromeliaceae): implications for incorporating TEK and TRM in management plans. Economic Botany:56(2):43-57.
  
  
• Ticktin, T. 2002. The history of ixtle in Mexico. Economic Botany 56(1):92-94.
  
  
• Ticktin, T., G. De la Peña, C. Illsley, S.Dalle and T. Johns. 2002. Participatory ethnoecological research for conservation: lessons from case-studies in Mesoamerica. Pages 575-584 in Stepp J. R., F.S. Wyndham and R. Zarger (eds). Ethnobiology and Biocultural Diversity: Proceedings of the Seventh International Society for Ethnobiology.
  
  
• Ticktin, T. (forthcomimg). Population ecology, traditional resource management and conservation of a rainforest bromeliad. Pages XX-XX in J. Salick (ed.), Ecological Ethnobotany. Oxford University Press.