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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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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Honolulu :
University of Hawaii Press,
[2002]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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