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Archaeological Investigation of the Landscape History of an Oceanic Atoll: Majuro, Marshall Islands. (Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press, 2009-10)Historical ecology has provided the field of geoarchaeology in Oceania with the concept of an island landscape as a historical product, invented from the dynamic interactions between natural processes and human agency. ...
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(Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press, 2009-01)In the Hawaiian Islands, intentionally introduced exotic fishes have been linked to changes in native biodiversity and community composition. In 1905, the mosquito fish Gambusia affinis was introduced to control mosquitoes. ...
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(Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press, 2009-07)The nocturnal, terrestrial frog Eleutherodactylus coqui, known as the Coqui, is endemic to Puerto Rico and was accidentally introduced to Hawai‘I via nursery plants in the late 1980s. Over the past two decades E. coqui has ...
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(Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press, 2009-01)Three species of mangrove crabs (Scylla spp.) were captured in live traps in Ngaremeduu Bay on the island of Babeldaob, Republic of Palau. Most were S. serrata, but one individual each of S. olivacea and S. paramamosain ...
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(Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press, 2009-04)The Peacock gouper (Cephalopholis argus) was introduced to Hawai‘i in 1956 to establish a new fishery. It has become abundant, but the fishery failed due to concerns about ciguatera fish poisoning, a neurological disease ...
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(Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press, 2009-04)Tropical dry forests are a unique and threatened ecosystem in the Pacific and globally. In Fiji, the endangered Fijian crested iguana (Brachylophus vitiensis) is endemic to tropical dry forests. Yadua Taba Island contains ...
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(Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press, 2009-07)A species list of Discomycetes that occur in Hawai‘i has been compiled that includes all previously reported species in the literature. Comments are provided for reports if there are changes in nomenclature, author citation, ...
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(Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press, 2009-04)The green turtle, Chelonia mydas, has modified its feeding behavior to include the increasing abundance of nonnative algae growing in the greater Ka¯ne‘ohe Bay area of O‘ahu in theHawaiian Islands. Changes in diet of the ...
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(Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press, 2009-04)Although it is generally accepted that introduced small mammals have detrimental effects on island ecology, our understanding of these effects is frequently limited by incomplete knowledge of small mammal distribution, ...
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(Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press, 2009-10)Human colonists of Remote Oceania readily took advantage of the naive virgin fauna encountered on previously uninhabited islands, a bounty that was quickly depleted. Subsequent developments in Polynesian subsistence economies ...
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(Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press, 2009-07)Two hundred eighty-eight ranid frogs from Papua New Guinea collected from 2002 to 2005 were examined for endoparasites: Platymantis adiastolus, P. boulengeri, P. browni, P. gilliardi, P. papuensis, P. schmidti, Rana daemeli, ...
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(Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press, 2009-10)Late-twentieth-century archaeological perspectives upon historical ecology in the Pacific islands emphasized anthropogenic impacts documented particularly in studies of vegetation change and deforestation, and the depletionor ...
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(Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press, 2009-07)We attempted to estimate the origin of the exotic frog Polypedates leucomystax in the Ryukyu Archipelago. This species was first found in 1964 just in front of the U.S. military base at Kadena on Okinawajima Island and ...
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(Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press, 2009-01)It is generally assumed that there is a good correlation between systematics and the secondary compounds found in plants. However because of the frequent homoplasy of chemical characters this has been difficult to test ...
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(Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press, 2009-04)Recent evidence indicates that there is a small, demographically isolated, island-associated population of false killer whales (Pseudorca crassidens) around the main Hawaiian Islands. Although it is known that false killer ...
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(Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press, 2009-01)Sea-surface temperatures off southern California from Scripps Pier and from Koko Head, Hawai‘i, were examined to determine what impact regime shifts that occurred in 1976–1977 and 1988–1989 had on environmental conditions ...
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(Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press, 2009-10)Archaeologists working on California’s northern Channel Islands have produced an essentially continuous record of Native American fishing and nearshore ecological changes spanning the last 12,000 years. To search for ...
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(Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press, 2009-10)Today, Isla Cedros is remote from major population centers of northwestern Mexico and the American Southwest, but before European contact and throughout the Colonial Period, it was a well-known location to both indigenous ...
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(Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press, 2009-01)Grammonus nagaredai is described as a new species of viviparous bythitid fish from two specimens collected from caves off O‘ahu and Hawai‘i at depths of 6–9 m. Grammonus yunokawai Nielsen, known from one specimen from a ...