Hawaiian Natural History, Ecology, and Evolution /

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, Hawaiia...

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التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
المؤلف الرئيسي: Ziegler, Alan C. (مؤلف)
التنسيق: Licensed eBooks
اللغة:الإنجليزية
منشور في: Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press [2002]
الوصول للمادة أونلاين:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctvvn6ph
جدول المحتويات:
  • 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