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A Taxonomic Revision of the Endemic Hawaiian Lysimachia (Primulaceae) Including Three New Species

Marr, Kendrick L; Bohm, Bruce A (University of Hawaii Press, 1997-07)

A taxonomic revision of the endemic Lysimachia of the Hawaiian Islands was undertaken with the goal of clarifying species boundaries, especially within the L. hillebrandii/L. remyi complex of the previous taxonomic ...
The Terrestrial Herpetofauna of the Loyalty Islands

Sadlier, Ross A; Bauer, Aaron M (University of Hawaii Press, 1997-01)

The terrestrial herpetofauna of the Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia, is reviewed. This is the first comprehensive account of the reptile fauna of these islands since Roux's monograph on the region in 1913 and is based on ...
Terrestrial Nutrient and Sediment Fluxes to the Coastal Waters of West Maui, Hawai'i

Soicher, AJ; Peterson, FL (University of Hawaii Press, 1997-07)

Water-quality degradation is often linked to land use practices in adjacent and upstream areas. Such linkages are here explored for the Lahaina District of Maui, Hawai'i, where severe algae blooms in 1989 and 1991 prompted ...
Transoceanic Transport Mechanisms: Introduction of the Chinese Mitten Crab, Eriocheir sinensis, to California

Cohen, Andrew N; Carlton, James T (University of Hawaii Press, 1997-01)

Live importation of the Chinese mitten crab, (Eriocheir sinensis H. Milne-Edwards, 1854) was banned by both California and the United States in the late 1980s because of concerns about potential damage to levees, rice ...
Why Sailing Sea Animals Have Mirror Images

Woodcock, Alfred H (University of Hawaii Press, 1997-01)

The worldwide distribution of Physalia physalis (L.) (the Portuguese man-of-war), a wind-propelled jellyfish-like animal on sea-surface waters, is a much discussed but poorly understood phenomenon. The radically different ...