Rakan A. Zahawi, Ph.D.

Rakan A. Zahawi is Director of the Lyon Arboretum at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. He works in tropical forest restoration, and evaluates methods aimed at accelerating the process of recovery. He has projects in Costa Rica, Colombia, and hopes to establish research in Hawaii in the near future.

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2021 Coffee pulp accelerates early tropical forest succession on old fields

Applying nutrient-rich agricultural by-products, such as fruit peels and pulp, to degraded land has been proposed as a strategy to overcome a number of barriers to tropical forest recovery. While such linkages between agroindustry and restoration represent win–win scenarios, practical applications remain largely unexplored. In this case study, we...

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