Outline of the 4th PABITRA Workshop

Workshop Theme:
Tasks of Vegetation Ecology in the PABITRA Net
(the Pacific-Asia Biodiversity Transect Network)

9:30	Plenary Session: Introduction	Dieter Mueller-Dombois (Honolulu, Hawaii)
I. Assessment and monitoring of plant biodiversity in the Pacific islands
10:00	Recent vegetation change in dry, leeward habitats of the Hawaiian Islands, the northern outliers of PABITRA	Curtis C. Daehler (Honolulu, Hawaii)
10:20	Invasive plants in native forests of Eastern Polynesia, the eastern outliers of PABITRA	Jean-Yves Meyer (Papeete, Tahiti)
10:40	A simple method to measure plant biodiversity across the PABITRA islands	Syuzo Itow (Nagasaki, Japan)
11:00	PABITRA related studies on Robinson Crusoe Island	Michael Kiehn with Tod Stuessy and Josef Greimler (Vienna, Austria)
11:20	The PABITRA gateway site in Fiji	Randy R. Thaman (Suva, Fiji)
11:40	Discussion (20 minutes)
12:00	Lunch (1 hour)
13:00	Plenary Sessions
II. Analysis of human relationships to island biodiversity
14:00	PABITRA monitoring of biodiversity with ethnobotanical documentation in the western Solomon Islands	Will McClatchey (Honolulu, Hawaii) with Myknee Siricolo (Solomon Islands)
14:20	Traditional agricultural systems and biodiversity in the Pacific islands, a PABITRA perspective	Harley I. Manner (Mangilao, Guam)
14:40	Biodiversity in human support system of the Pacific islands	Randy R. Thaman (Suva, Fiji)
15:00	Discussion (20 minutes)
15:20	Tea Break (20 minutes)
III. Analysis of freshwater flow, its relation to island biodiversity and ecosystem health
15:40	Integrated watershed and biodiversity management for PABITRA sites, monitoring topo-climatic gradients	James O. Juvik (Hilo, Hawaii)
cancelled	Functional roles of biodiversity in PABITRA watersheds using horizontal gradients (the BIOGRASP approach)	Cristoph Leuschner (Goettingen, Germany)
IV. Historical perspectives on island biodiversity
16:00	Interactions between climate and human impacts: a paleoecological approach to the study of biodiversity evolution in the Canary Islands	Richard Pott (Hannover, Germany)
16:20	The genus Cyrtandra (Gesneraceae): its indicator potential for assessing the health of PABITRA forests	Michael Kiehn (Vienna, Austria)
16:40	Break or Discussion (20 minutes)
V. Coordination of the PABITRA project
17:00	Support of multidisciplinary ecosystem studies with Internet-based integrative techniques	Kent W. Bridges (Honolulu, Hawaii)
17:20	Methods to initiate PABITRA field work for IBOY 2001	Dieter Mueller-Dombois (Honolulu, Hawaii)
17:40	Concluding discussion (20 minutes)
18:00	Dinner
18:30	Advisory Council

Speakers please note: The workshop mode of the PABITRA session is informal and requires ample time for discussion. Therefore, we should consider 20 minutes for each presentation and 10 minutes for discussion. The total session length is seven hours, plus the time for appropriate intermissions.