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Hawaiian Natural History, Ecology, and Evolution / Alan C. Ziegler.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2002]Copyright date: ©2002Description: 1 online resource (528 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780824821906
  • 9780824842437
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 590
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Plates -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Plate Tectonics -- 3. Hawaiian Archipelago Formation -- 4. Volcanism -- 5. Hawaiian Topography -- 6. Actions of the Ocean -- 7. Climatology -- 8. Freshwater -- 9. Ecological Principles -- 10. Evolutionary Principles -- 11. The Marine Environment -- 12. Marine and Freshwater Fishes -- 13. Dispersal and Establishment -- 14. The Terrestrial Environment -- 15. Flowering Plants -- 16. Terrestrial Arthropods -- 17. Picture-Winged Flies -- 18. Nonmarine Snails -- 19. Amphibians, Reptiles, and Mammals -- 20. Birds -- 21. Hawaiian Honeycreepers -- 22. Flightless Birds and Fossil Sites -- 23. The Northwestern Hawaiian Islands -- 24. Polynesian Origin and Migration -- 25. Polynesian Ecology -- 26. Historic Ecology -- 27. Natural Resource Protection -- 28. Historic Hawaiian Naturalists -- Glossary of Hawaiian Place Names -- References Cited -- Audiovisual Aids -- Index
Summary: Not since Willam A. Bryan's 1915 landmark compendium, Hawaiian Natural History, has there been a single-volume work that offers such extensive coverage of this complex but fascinating subject. Illustrated with more than two dozen color plates and a hundred photographs and line drawings, Hawaiian Natural History, Ecology, and Evolution updates both the earlier publication and subsequent works by compiling and synthesizing in a uniform and accessible fashion the widely scattered information now available.Readers can trace the natural history of the Hawaiian Archipelago through the book's twenty-eight chapters or focus on specific topics such as island formation by plate tectonics, plant and animal evolution, flightless birds and their fossil sites, Polynesian migrational history and ecology, the effects of humans and exotic animals on the environment, current conservation efforts, and the contributions of the many naturalists who visited the islands over the centuries and the stories behind their discoveries. An extensive annotated bibliography and a list of audio-visual materials will help readers locate additional sources of information.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Plates -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Plate Tectonics -- 3. Hawaiian Archipelago Formation -- 4. Volcanism -- 5. Hawaiian Topography -- 6. Actions of the Ocean -- 7. Climatology -- 8. Freshwater -- 9. Ecological Principles -- 10. Evolutionary Principles -- 11. The Marine Environment -- 12. Marine and Freshwater Fishes -- 13. Dispersal and Establishment -- 14. The Terrestrial Environment -- 15. Flowering Plants -- 16. Terrestrial Arthropods -- 17. Picture-Winged Flies -- 18. Nonmarine Snails -- 19. Amphibians, Reptiles, and Mammals -- 20. Birds -- 21. Hawaiian Honeycreepers -- 22. Flightless Birds and Fossil Sites -- 23. The Northwestern Hawaiian Islands -- 24. Polynesian Origin and Migration -- 25. Polynesian Ecology -- 26. Historic Ecology -- 27. Natural Resource Protection -- 28. Historic Hawaiian Naturalists -- Glossary of Hawaiian Place Names -- References Cited -- Audiovisual Aids -- Index

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Not since Willam A. Bryan's 1915 landmark compendium, Hawaiian Natural History, has there been a single-volume work that offers such extensive coverage of this complex but fascinating subject. Illustrated with more than two dozen color plates and a hundred photographs and line drawings, Hawaiian Natural History, Ecology, and Evolution updates both the earlier publication and subsequent works by compiling and synthesizing in a uniform and accessible fashion the widely scattered information now available.Readers can trace the natural history of the Hawaiian Archipelago through the book's twenty-eight chapters or focus on specific topics such as island formation by plate tectonics, plant and animal evolution, flightless birds and their fossil sites, Polynesian migrational history and ecology, the effects of humans and exotic animals on the environment, current conservation efforts, and the contributions of the many naturalists who visited the islands over the centuries and the stories behind their discoveries. An extensive annotated bibliography and a list of audio-visual materials will help readers locate additional sources of information.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)