A Natural History of the Hawaiian Islands : : Selected Readings II / / E. Alison Kay.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Hawaii Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Kay, E. Alison,
• MitwirkendeR: Blumenstock, David I.,; Brent Dalrymple, G.,; Carlquist, Sberwin,; Carlton, James T.,; Carr, Gerald D.,; Carson, H. L.,; Christensen, Carl C.,; Clague, David A.,; Claque, David A.,; Conant, Patrick,; Conant, Sheila,; Cuddihy, Linda W.,; Dollar, Steven J.,; Fleischer, Robert C.,; Ford, John I.,; Freed, Leonard A.,; Gagne, Wayne C.,; Gavenda, Robert T.,; Gillett, George W.,; Goff, M. Lee,; Gosline, William A.,; Grant Gross, M.,; Grigg, Richard W.,; Grigs, Richard W.,; Gustafson, R.,; Hadfield, Michael G.,; Howarth, F. G.,; Hubbell, Theodore H.,; James, Helen F.,; Kaneshiro, Kenneth T.,; Kay, E. Alison,; Kinzie, Robert A.,; Kirch, Patrick V.,; Kohn, Alan J.,; Ladd, Harry S.,; Moore, James G.,; Mueller-Dombois, Dieter,; Mull, W. P.,; Normark, William R.,; Olson, Storrs L.,; Palumbi, Stephen R.,; Price, Saul,; Scheltema, Rudolf S.,; Scott, J. Michael,; Sohmer, S. H.,; St. John, Harold,; Stone, Charles P.,; Tracey, Joshua I.,; Uehara, Goro,; Walker, George P. L.,
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2021]; ©1994
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (536 p.)

This volume brings together recent primary source materials on major themes in Hawaiian natural history: the geological processes that have built the Islands; the physical factors that influence the Island's terrestrial ecosystems; the dynamics of the sea that support coral reefs, fish, and mollusks; the peculiarities of animals and plants that have evolved in the Islands and are found nowhere else; and the human impact on the land, plants, and animals.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Section 1. THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS AND THE PACIFIC BASIN: HISTORY AND PROCESS -- Introduction -- Tectonics, Geochronology, and Origin of the Hawaiian-Emperor Volcanic Chain -- Drilling on Midway Atoll, Hawaii -- Geology and Volcanology of the Hawaiian Islands -- The Next Island -- Section 2. THE HAWAIIAN ENVIRONMENT: THE LAND -- Introduction -- Climates of the States: Hawaii -- Soils of Hawaii -- Hawaiian Quaternary Paleoenvironments: A Review of Geological, Pedological, and Botanical Evidence -- Some Aspects of Island Ecosystem Analysis -- Vegetation Zones -- The First Arrivals -- Section 3. THE HAWAIIAN ENVIRONMENT: THE SEA -- Introduction -- Paleoceanography of Coral Reefs in the Hawaiian-Emperor Chain -- Long-distance Dispersal by Planktonic Larvae of Shoal-water Benthic Invertebrates among Central Pacific Islands -- Marine Ecosystems in the Hawaiian Islands -- Community Structure, Succession and Development of Coral Reefs in Hawaii -- The Ecology of Conus in Hawaii -- Section 4. EVOLUTION HAWAIIAN STYLE -- Introduction -- Genetical Processes of Evolution on High Oceanic Islands -- Considerations Regarding the Evolution of Hawaiian Animals -- Endemism in the Hawaiian Flora, and a Revision of the Hawaiian Species of Gunnera (Haloragidaceae) -- Beggar's Ticks and Tarweeds: Masters of Adaptive Radiation -- Hybridization and its Taxonomic Implications in the Scaevola gaudichaudiana Complex of the Hawaiian Islands -- Speciation in the Hawaiian Drosophila -- Extinction in Hawaiian Achatinelline Snails -- Evolutionary Ecology and Radiation of Hawaiian Passerine Birds -- Endemism and Evolution in Hawaiian Marine Invertebrates -- Section 5. ECOSYSTEMS AND ADAPTIVE SHIFTS -- Introduction -- The Biology of Islands -- Origin of the Hawaiian Insect Fauna -- The Unique Terrestrial Biota of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands -- Life Crawls Upstream -- Section 6. THE EFFECTS OF HUMANS PAST AND PRESENT -- Introduction -- Hawaiian Natural History: 1778-1900 -- The Impact of the Prehistoric Polynesians on the Hawaiian Ecosystem -- Descriptions of Thirty-two New Species of Birds from the Hawaiian Islands: Part I. Non-Passeriformes -- Descriptions of Thirty-two New Species of Birds from the Hawaiian Islands: Part II. Passeriformes -- Summary of Vegetation Alteration in the Hawaiian Islands -- Hawaii's Native Ecosystems: Importance, Conflicts, and Suggestions for the Future -- Natural and Anthropogenic Disturbance on Coral Reefs -- Patterns of Transoceanic Marine Biological Invasions in the Pacific Ocean -- Bibliographic Data for Articles in This Volume