Hawaiian natural history, ecology, and evolution / Alan C. Ziegler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ziegler, Alan C., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ecology--Hawaii.

Ecology.

Geology--Hawaii.

Geology.

Natural history--Hawaii.

Natural history.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2002]

Language Note:

In English.

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.

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

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Aug 2019)

ISBN:

9780824842437

082484243X

OCLC:

1013963285