Publications and Presentations

Publications

2024 Publications

Zhao S, Webber B, Seidl C, Carnes C, Doyle C, Dautreppe N, Dyson E, Navarette L, Takakura K, Cabrera A, Alexander J, Soalt T, Hollenberg MK, Krieger-Coble P, Mounce H, Crampton L. 2024. Aerial biolarvicide application for mosquito control in endangered forest bird habitats on Maui and Kauaʻi. Pacific Cooperative Studies Unit Technical Report #207. University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Honolulu, Hawaiʻi. 30 pp.

Costantini MS, Videvall E, Foster JT, Medeiros MC, Gillece JD, Paxton EH, Crampton LH, Mounce HL, Wang AX, Fleischer RC, Campana MG. 2024. The role of geography, diet, and host phylogeny on the gut microbiome in the Hawaiian Honeycreeper radiation. Ecology and Evolution, 14(10), e70372.

MFBRP Workplan 2024. This annual planning document outlines our research and management strategies for 2024.

2023 Publications

Gallerani EM, Burgett J, Vaughn N, Fortini LB, Fricker AG, Mounce H, Gillespie TW, Crampton L, Knapp D, Hilte JM, Gilb R. 2023. High-resolution lidar data shed light on inter-island translocation of endangered bird species in the Hawaiian Islands. Ecological Applications. Ecological Society of America.

MFBRP Workplan 2023. This annual planning document outlines our research and management strategies for 2023.

2022 Publications

Paxton EH, Laut M, Enomoto S, Bogardus M. Hawaiian forest bird conservation strategies for minimizing the risk of extinction: Biological and Biocultural considerations. Hawaiʻi Cooperative Studies Unit Technical Report HCSU-103

MFBRP Workplan 2022. This annual planning document outlines our research and management strategies.

2021 Publications

Warren C.C., Berthold L.K., Mounce H.L. Luscomb P, Masuda B, Berry L. 2021. 2019 Kiwikiu Conservation Translocation Report. Pacific Cooperative Studies Unit Technical Report #203. University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. Honolulu, HI. 103 pages.

Judge, S.W., R.J. Camp, C.W. Warren, L.K. Berthold, H.L. Mounce, P.J. Hart, and R.J. Monello. 2021. Population Estimates and Trends of Three Maui Island-endemic Hawaiian Honeycreepers. Journal of Field Ornithology.

2020 Publications

Wang Alex X, Paxton E.H, Mounce H.L, Hart PJ. 2020. Divergent movement patterns of adult and juvenile ‘Akohekohe, an endangered Hawaiian Honeycreeper. Journal of Field Ornithology.

2019 Publications

Judge SW, Camp RJ, Warren CC, Berthold LK, Mounce HL, Hart PJ, Monello RJ. 2019. Pacific island landbird monitoring annual report, Haleakalā National Park and East Maui Island, 2017. Natural Resource Report. NPS/PACN/NRR—2019/1949. National Park Service. Fort Collins, Colorado.

Warren CC, Mounce HL, Berthold LK, Farmer C, Leonard D, Duvall F. 2019. Experimental restoration trials in Nakula Natural Area Reserve in preparation for reintroduction of Kiwikiu (Pseudonestor xanthophrys). Pacific Cooperative Studies Unit Technical Report #199. University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Department of Botany. Honolulu, HI. 102 pages.

Warren, CC, Berthold LK, Mounce HL, Foster J, Sackett, L. 2019. Evaluating the risk of avian disease in reintroducing the endangered Kiwikiu (Maui Parrotbill: Pseudonestor xanthophrys) to Nakula NAR, Maui, Hawai‘i. Pacific Cooperative Studies Unit Technical Report #201. University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Department of Botany. Honolulu, HI. 50 pages.

2018 Publications

Maui Forest Bird Working Group. Kiwikiu Reintroduction Plan. 2018. Updated August 2019.

Mounce HL, Warren CC, McGowan C, Paxton EH, Groombridge JJ. 2018. Extinction risk and conservation options for Maui Parrotbill, an endangered Hawaiian honeycreeper. Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management. December 2018. Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 367-382.

2015 Publications

Warren CC, Motyka PJ, Mounce HL. 2015. Home range sizes of two Hawaiian honeycreepers: implications for proposed translocation efforts. Journal of Field Ornithology 86(4):305–316.

MFBRP Workplan 2015-2016. This annual planning document outlines our research and management strategies.

Mounce HL. 2015. Recovery of the endangered Maui Parrotbill (Kiwikiu, Pseudonestor xanthophrys). A thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Biodiversity Management Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology School of Anthropology and Conservation University of Kent.

Mounce HL, Raisin C, Leonard DL, Wickenden H, Swinnerton KJ, Groombridge JJ. 2015. Spatial genetic architecture of the critically-endangered Maui Parrotbill (Pseudonestor xanthophrys): management considerations for reintroduction strategies. Conservation Genetics Volume 16, Issue 1: Page 71-84.

Peck RW, Banko PC, Cappadonna J, Steele C, Leonard DL, Mounce HL, Becker CD, Swinnerton KJ. 2015. An assessment of arthropod prey resources at Nakula Natural Area Reserve, a potential site of reintroduction for Kiwikiu (Pseudonestor xanthophrys) and Maui ‘Alauahio (Paroreomyza montana). Hawai’i Cooperative Studies Unit, University of Hawai’i at Hilo. Technical Report HCSU-059.

2014 Publications

Mounce HL, Iknayan KJ, Leonard DL, Swinnerton KJ, and Groombridge JJ. 2014. Management implications derived from long term re-sight data: annual survival of the Maui Parrotbill Pseudonestor xanthophrys. Bird Conservation International 24:316-326.

MFBRP Workplan 2014-2015. This annual planning document outlines our research and management strategies.

2013 Publications

Jirinec V, Rutt CL, Kutylowski JA, Wang AX, Kohley CR, Wheeler SR, Mounce HL, Jeffrey J. 2013. A Nest in Koa (Acacia koa) Successfully Fledged Two ‘Akiapōlā‘au (Hemignathus munroi).’Elepaio 73(5).

MFBRP Work Plan 2013-2014. This annual planning document outlines our research and management strategies.

Mounce HL, Leonard DL, Swinnerton KJ, Becker CD, Berthold LK, Iknayan KJ, Groombridge JJ. 2013. Determining productivity of Maui Parrotbills, an endangered Hawaiian honeycreeper. Journal of Field Ornithology 84(1):32-39.

2012 Publications

Brinck KW, Camp RJ, Gorresen PM, Leonard DL, Mounce HL, Iknayan KJ, Paxton EH. 2012. 2011 Kiwikiu (Maui Parrotbill) and Maui ‘Alauahio abundance estimates and the effect of sampling effort on power to detect a trend. Hawai’i Cooperative Studies Unit, University of Hawai’i at Hilo. Technical Report HCSU-035.

Vetter JP, Swinnerton KJ, VanderWerf EA, Garvin JC, Mounce HL, Breniser HE, Leonard DL, Fretz JS. 2012. Survival estimates for two Hawaiian honeycreepers. Pacific Science 66(3):299-309.

MFBRP Work Plan 2012-2013. This annual planning document outlines our research and managment strategies.

Mounce HL, Leonard DL. 2012. Habitat restoration aiding the recovery of the Maui Parrotbill. Biodiversity Science 6.

Mounce HL. 2012. Help Save the Maui Parrotbill. Winging It 24(3).

2010 Publications

Becker CD, Mounce HL, Rassmussen TA, Rauch-Sasseen A, Swinnerton KJ, Leonard DL. 2010. Nest success and parental investment in endangered Maui parrotbill (Pseudonestor xanthophrys) with implications for recovery. Endangered Species Research. N 278: 189-194.

Becker CD, Massey G, Groombridge JJ, Hammond R. 2010. Moving ‘I’iwi (Vestiaria coccinea) as a Surrogate for Future Translocations of Endangered ‘Akohekohe (Palmeria dolei). Technical Report #172.

MFBRP Work Plan 2010. This annual planning document outlines our research and management strategies.

Sparklin BD, Malcolm TR, Brosius CN, and Vetter JP. 2010. Effects of Rattus spp. Control Measure and Nesting Substrate on Nest Depredation, East Maui, Hawai’i. Proc. 24th Vertebr. Pest Conf. University of California, Davis. 18-22.

2009 Publications

Becker CD, Berthold LK, Iknayan KJ, Li W. 2009. Density of Maui Parrotbill in Waikamoi Preserve West of Ko’olau Gap. MFBRP Partnership Communication.

2008 Publications

Mounce HL. 2008. What threat do native avian predators pose to Hawaiian honeycreepers? Two cases of predation by pueo (Asio flammeus sandwinchensis). ‘Elepaio 68(3): 19-20.

Malcolm TR, Swinnerton KJ, Groombridge JJ, Sparklin BD, Brosius CN, Vetter JP, Foster JT. 2008. Ground-based rodent control in a remote Hawaiian rainforest on Maui. Pacific Conservation Biology 14: 206-214.

2007 Publications

Mounce HL, Duvall F, Swinnerton KJ. 2007. Poli Poli fire demonstrates vulnerability of Maui ‘Alauahio. ‘Elepaio 67(9): 67-69.

Presentations

Navarrete L, Takakura K, Zhao S, Iburg J, Seidl C, Crampton C, Mounce H. 2024 Integrated pest managment and BTi: the future of mosquito control in Hawai’i.Poster Presentation. Hawai’i Conservation Conference. Honolulu, HI.

Vallocchia S, Judge S, Warren CC, Foster H, Camp RJ, Bak T, Berthold LK, Mounce HL, and Monello RJ. 2024. Collapse of Endemic Hawaiian Honeycreepers on Maui. Poster Presentation. Hawai’i Conservation Conference. Honolulu, HI.

Vallocchia S, Patton L, Hebebrand H, Sinker A, Berthold L, Mounce H, Luscomb P, Nietmann L, Vetter J. 2024 Optimizing temporary captive care in a field setting for two endangered honeycreeper species on Maui. Poster Presentation. Hawai’i Conservation Conference. Honolulu, HI.

Berthold L, Mounce H, Warren C, Foster H, Berry L. 2023. Kiwikiu Conservation Translocation and How Disease Thrwarted Everything. Presentation. Hawai’i Conservation Conference. Honolulu, HI.

Foster H, Vallocchia S, Berthold L, Mounce H, Berry L, and Fay K. 2023. Avian Malaria Monitoring in The Nature Conservancy’s Waikamoi Preserve. Poster Presentation. Hawai’i Conservation Conference. Honolulu, HI.

Cabrera A, Figueroa G, Rohde L, Wong K, Snowden O, Temkin R, Hope M, Navarrete L, Foster H, Mounce H, Crampton L, Howell P, Mitchell S. 2023. What’s up, man? Experiments in lure types to increase captures rate of Male Culex quinquefasciatus on Maui and Kauaʻi. Poster Presentation. Hawai’i Conservation Conference. Honolulu, HI.

Smith L, Judge S, Camp R, Genz A, Berry L, Berthold L, Mounce H. 2023. The Status and Trends of Forest Birds on Moloka‘i. Poster Presentation. Hawai’i Conservation Conference. Honolulu, HI.

Berthold L, Mounce H, Warren C, Foster H, Berry L. 2023. Navigating a Path to Recovery for Kiwikiu: a Hawaiian Finch in Peril. Presentation. The Wildlife Society Western Section Annual Conference. Riverside, CA.

Thow C, Berry L, Crampton L, Mounce H, Wang A. 2023. Assessing avian malaria at the landscape scale in Hawai’i. Presentation. The Wildlife Society Western Section Annual Conference. Riverside, CA.

Warren C, Judge S, Camp R, Mounce H, Berthold L, Hart P, Monello R. 2019. Troubling Declines in Maui’s Endemic Honeycreepers: 2017 East Maui Hawaiʻi Forest Bird Survey. Presentation. Hawai’i Conservation Conference. Honolulu, HI.

Fukunaga, K, Berthold L, Warren C, Mounce H. 2019. Tracking Hawai‘i ‘Amakihi (Chlorodrepanis virens wilsoni) in Nakula Natural Area Reserve on East Maui: home range estimation and evaluation of techniques for upcoming Kiwikiu (Pseudonestor xanthophrys) conservation translocation. Poster Presentation. Hawai’i Conservation Conference. Honolulu, HI. Photo of poster. Poster wording.

Mounce H, Farmer C, Berry L, Vetter J, Masuda B, Warren C, Berthold L, Duvall F. 2019. Saving the Kiwikiu (Pseudonestor xanthophrys): Recovery Efforts in Maui, Hawai’i. Presentation (with notes). American Ornithology Society (AOS) meeting. Anchorage, Alaska.

Mounce H, Farmer C, Berry L, Vetter J, Masuda B, Warren C, Berthold L, Duvall F. 2018. Kiwikiu Recovery Wildlife Reintroduction Conference Poster. Poster Presentation. IUCN Wildlife Reintroduction Conference, Chicago, IL.

Borell A, Strohecker L, Berthold LK, Eisenberg D, Radford A, Mounce, HL. 2018. Conservation Trainings for Tour Guides: Benefits for Both Tourism and Resource Protection. Poster Presentation. Hawai’i Conservation Conference, Honolulu, HI.

Berthold LK. Warren CC, Mounce HL, Cohan A. 2017. Predator control in The Nature Conservancy’s Waikamoi Preserve. Presentation. Hawai’i Conservation Conference, Honolulu, HI.

Warren CC, Berthold LK, Mounce HL. 2017. Composition of Native Forest Birds Captured on East Maui. Poster Presentation. Hawai’i Conservation Conference, Honolulu, HI.

Mounce HL. 2016. Kiwikiu Recovery. Speaker in Session: Saving Hawaiian Birds: Concrete Actions to Prevent Further Extinctions. IUCN World Conservation Congress. Honolulu, HI.

Warren CC, Mounce HL. 2015. Planning for Kiwikiu reintroduction: Habitat restoration in Nakula Natural Area Reserve, Maui. Presentation. Maui Weed Forum. Kahului, HI.

Warren CC, Mounce HL, Farmer C, Vetter JP, Berthold LK, Landon P, Fretz S. 2015. Planning for Kiwikiu reintroduction: Habitat restoration in Nakula Natural Area Reserve, Maui. Presentation. Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation (ATBC) Conference, Honolulu, HI.

Mounce HL, Warren CC, Farmer C, Vetter JP, Berthold LK, Landon P, Fretz S. 2015. Planning for Kiwikiu reintroduction: Habitat restoration in Nakula Natural Area Reserve, Maui. Presentation. Hawai’i Conservation Conference, Hilo, HI. View presentation here.

Berthold LK, Warren CC, Mounce HL, Vetter JP. 2015. Leeward East Maui Forest Bird Community: Surveys in Nakula Natural Area Reserve. Poster Presentation. Hawai’i Conservation Conference, Hilo, HI.

Wang AX. 2015. Movement patterns of adult and juvenile ‘Ākohekohe (Palmeria dolei). Presentation. Hawai’i Conservation Conference, Hilo, HI. View presentation here.

Wang AX. 2014. The presence of an ecological trap in the juvenile dispersal of the ‘Ākohekohe (Palmeria dolei), a population limiting life stage? Poster Presentation. Hawai’i Conservation Conference, Honolulu, HI.

Warren CC, Mounce HL. 2014. Home-range patterns of two Hawaiian honeycreepers, Kiwikiu (Psuedonestor xanthophrys) and Maui ‘Alauahio (Paroeomyza montana). Presentation. Hawai’i Conservation Conference, Honolulu, HI.

Mounce HL, Raisin C, Leonard DL, Groombridge JJ. 2012. Contemporary Genetic Diversity for the Kiwikiu (Maui Parrotbill; Pseudonestor xanthophrys). Poster Presentation. NAOC-V Conference.

Berthold LK, Mounce HL, Motyka PJ, Leonard DL. 2012. Experiments with Developing and Using Supplemental Feeders for Kiwikiu (Maui Parrotbill; Psuedonestor xanthophrys): Potentials for translocation efforts and population productivity levels. Poster Presentation. Hawai’i Conservation Conference.

Motyka PJ, Mounce HL, Leonard DL, Groombridge JJ. 2012. Comparing mtDNA diversity in the Kiwikiu (Pseudonestor xanthophrys) and the Maui ‘Alauahio (Paroreomyza montana). Poster Presentation. Hawai’i Conservation Conference.

Mounce HL, Kohley CR, Rutt C, Leonard DL. 2012. Maui’s Protected Areas Shelter Long-lived Hawaiian Honeycreepers. Poster Presentation. Hawai’i Conservation Conference.

Mounce HL, Raisin C, Leonard DL, Groombridge JJ. 2012. Contemporary Genetic Diversity for the Kiwikiu (Maui Parrotbill; Pseudonestor xanthophrys). Presentation. Hawai’i Conservation Conference.

Berthold LK, Mounce HL, Leonard DL, Iknayan KJ, Becker CD, Swinnerton KJ, Groombridge JJ. 2011. Kiwikiu productivity: nest survival and annual reproductive success. Presentation. The Wildlife Society Conference.

Mounce HL, Iknayan KJ, Berthold LK, Leonard DL. 2011. Kiwikiu productivity: Nest survival and annual reproductive success in the Hanawi Natural Area Reserve, Maui, Hawaii. Poster Presentation. Hawai’i Conservation Conference.

Berthold LK, Becker CD, Mounce HL, Iknayan KJ. 2010. Effect of Rodent Reduction on Numbers of Forest Birds in a Hawaiian Rainforest. Poster Presentation. Hawai’i Conservation Conference.

Iknayan KJ, Mounce HL, Becker CD. August 2010. Home Range Patterns of Maui ‘Alauahio and Maui Parrotbill. Poster Presentation. Hawai’i Conservation Conference.

Becker CD, Mounce HL, Butler A, Ha J, Leonard DL. August 2010. Messages from Population Models: Implications for Recovery of Endangered Maui Parrotbill. Poster Presentation. Hawai’i Conservation Conference.

Becker CD, Mounce HL, Leonard DL. August 2010. Establishing a Second Population of Maui Parrotbill (Pseudonestor xanthophrys). Presentation. American Ornithologists’ Union (AOU) Conference.

Mounce HL, Becker CD, Rassmussen TA, Rauch-Sasseen A, Swinnerton KJ, Leonard DL. February 2009. Parental Investment at the Nest in Wild Maui Parrotbill (Pseudonestor xanthrophrys): Implications for Captive Propagation and Recovery. Presentation. Hawai’i Conservation Conference.

Mounce HL, Garvin JC, Wells CP, DuBay SG, Becker CD, Leonard DL. July 2009. Using Discriminant Function Analysis to Accurately Sex Maui ‘Alauahio. Poster Presentation. Hawai’i Conservation Conference.

Hammond RL, Becker CD, Li WW, Leonard DL. July 2009. Use of Spacial Analysis to evaluate the effect of climate change on numbers of Maui Parrotbill (Pseudonestor xanthophrys). Poster Presentation. Hawai’i Conservation Conference.

Garvin JC, Vetter JP, Mounce HL, VanderWerf EA, Swinnerton KJ, Breniser HE, Becker CD, Leonard DL. 2008. Survival estimates of the endangered Maui Parrotbill (Pseudonestor xanthrophrys) and the Maui ‘Alauahio (Paroreomyza montana). Poster Presentation AOU Conference Portland, OR.