Russo, M., Altman-Kurosaki, N.T., Cheng, Z., & Ticktin, T. 2025 Evaluating the impacts of the hala scale, Thysanococcus pandani Stickney (Hemiptera: Halimococcidae) on hala (Pandanus tectorius) regeneration in the Hawaiian Islands. Pacific Science 79(3): 421-434

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Notes: The authors carried out a statewide plant demographic study of coastal hala forests to test if the presence of the hala scale was correlated with lower levels of sapling recruitment. This study provides the first baseline study of hala populations across Hawai‘i and thereby allows for long-term monitoring of both hala and the hala scale. https://doi.org/10.2984/79.3.6