A Natural History of the Hawaiian Islands : : Selected Readings II / / E. Alison Kay.
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 mol...
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Place / Publishing House: | Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2021] ©1994 |
Year of Publication: | 2021 |
Language: | English |
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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