Contact Information
Phone:(808) 956-6738
Fax: (808) 956-3923
Email: kalodimo@hawaii.edu

University of Hawai`i at Manoa
3190 Maile Way, Room 101
Honolulu, HI 96822

Affiliations
Botany, EECB

Statement
Ecology of avian frugivore- fruit plant systems. I would like to understand how social flocking avian foragers organize their foraging across patchily distributed plant food resources and why these organizational patterns and behaviors, if present, exist in these study systems. In addition, I am equally interested in the strategies plants have evolved to discourage seed predation. Avian fruit foraging is tied to fruit availability which often is influenced the local climate, therefore, I am also interested in the fruiting phenology of plant species available to the avian model species used.

Awards

• 2004 Graduate Student Association Travel Grant: $640.00
• 2004 Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Biology Research Award: $200.00
• 2005 Hawaii Invasive Species Committee: $10,100.00

Publications

• Wester L., J. DeLay, L. Haong, B. Iida, N. Kalodimos, T. Wong, (2006) Population dynamics of Marsilea villosa on O`ahu, Hawai`i" Pacific Science 60(3).

• Woodcock D.W. and N. Kalodimos (2005) Evidence of Loulu Palm (Pritchardia sp.) Forest on the Kona Coast, Hawai'i. Pacific Science 59(4)

• Kalodimos N., Habitat associations, movement patterns, and modeled spread of three parrot species (Aves: Psitticidae, Cacatuidae) species on Oahu Island, Hawaii - a preliminary study. Poster pres. at the 2004 AFO/WOS meeting, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
  
• Woodcock D.W. and N. Kalodimos (2003) The tree molds of Pu'uhonua o honaunau: a record of loulu palms on the Kona coast 2003 Park Science.
  

• Kalodimos N. Increased germinability of pest plant seeds by Leothrix
  lutea (Aves: Timaliidae) digestion" (in prep.)
  
• Kalodimos N. Low intact passage of Marsilea villosa, sporocarps
  through domestic Anseriform bird digestive systems.? (in prep.)

• “The Monks of Berwyn” Bird Talk Magazine, October 1986

• “Experiences With an Indian Dwarf Pufferfish” Tropical Fish Hobbyist Magazine, October 2000

• “Courtship Behavior of the Drape Fin Barb, Oreichthys sp.” Tropical Fish Hobbyist Magazine, 2002.

Presentations

• "Status, Distribution and Population Size of Oahu Parrot Species" Two Presentations; one to the Department of Land and Natural Resources and one to the Oahu Invasive Species Committee 2003.

• "Oahu Parrots - multi media presentation " Two presentations to the
  Hawaiian Audubon Society on naturalized Oahu Island parrots.2003.