A system of vegetation classification applied to Hawaii

MICHAEL G. BUCK is a resource forester with the Hawaii Division of Forestry and Wildlife. He joined the Division in 1977, and currently works in its resource inventory, research, and remote sensing programs. He holds a bachelor's degree in resource management from State University of New York, Syracuse (1976). TIMOTHY E. PAYSEN, a research forester, is assigned to the Station's chaparral and related ecosystems research unit, with headquarters at Riverside, California. He earned a bachelor's degree in forest management at Humboldt State College (1969), and a doctorate in applied statistics at the Acknowledgments: The System of Vegetation Classification described in this report developed through the efforts of many persons. We thank all of the participants in the vegetation classification workshop held in Hawaii, 1982, especially botanists Gar Clarke and Linda Cuddihy of the Hawaii Division of Forestry and Wildlife. We also thank the manuscript reviewers,