Wildlife Management
Extremely heavy rainfall has become more common in Hawai'i, leading to increased runoff, erosion, and flooding. The number of consecutive wet days and dry days have been increasing in Hawai'i.
Increasing temperatures, an expanding human population, and increased cover of invasive shrubs and grasses, such as common gorse, fountain grass and guinea grass, all contribute to increased risk of wildfire in Hawai'i.
Warmer temperatures and decreased cloud cover in some areas are likely to result in greater evaporation rates, leading to reductions in water supply and increases in demand. Hawai'i has already experienced a trend toward increasing drought conditions during the winter rainy season. Decreased soil moisture increases plant stress, with impacts to agricultural and natural systems.
An interdisciplinary team completed a comprehensive climate change vulnerability assessment for all native Hawaiian plants (1000+ species) to address a critical knowledge gap for resource managers by identifying the change in species’ range under current and projected future climate conditions.
This report provides instructions and a framework to confront issues of climate change.
The climate assessment includes information on the changes that the climate will go through. The rest of the report separates the climate impacts by island and adaption options.
The climate assessment includes information on how water, ecosystems, biodiversity, coastal communities, and indigenous people will be affected by climate change.
This is a very short factsheet about wildfire and climate change in Hawaii.
This website, powered by Data Basin, contains 30 datasets and 2 maps that deal with climate change.
