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Format: 1 online resource (536 p.)

ISBN: 9780824844264

Content: 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.

Note: 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 , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9780824844264

URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780824844264