Not since Willam A. Bryan's 1915 landmark compendium, Hawaiian Natural History, has there been a single-volume work
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Table of contents :
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