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(University of Hawai'i Press, 2002-01)Marine isotope stage (MIS) 11 may well represent one of the most significant interglacial highstand events of the past million years. Ocean volume changes charted from coastal exposures imply partial or complete melting ...
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(University of Hawaii Press, 2005-04)The acronym PABITRA stands for Pacific-Asia Biodiversity Transect, a network of island sites and conservation professionals collaborating throughout the Pacific-Asia region. An ideal PABITRA site is a broad landscape ...
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(University of Hawai'i Press, 1981-10)Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii, received increasing amounts of sewage from the 1950s through 1977. Most sewage was diverted from the bay in 1977 and early 1978. This investigation, begun in January 1976 and continued through August ...
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(University of Hawaii Press, 1995-07)The karyotype of Platymantis pelewensis Peters, 1867, the only native, endemic amphibian in Belau, extremely isolated from other congeners, consisted of 2n = 22 homologous chromosomes largely forming a graded series. Of ...
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(University of Hawaii Press, 2005-04)For many centuries, the kava plant, Piper methysticum, a series of sterile clones of a truly wild Piper species, has been used in several high islands in remote Oceania, including Pohnpei in the Federated States of Micronesia. ...
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(University of Hawaii Press, 1976-04)A gray reef shark, Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos, was captured at Enewetak Atoll, the Marshall Islands, in 1972. Near the right pectoral fin was a large fungating tumor. Microscopically, no evidence of microorganisms or ...
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(University of Hawai'i Press, 1959-07)
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(University of Hawai'i Press, 1970-10)A key is presented to distinguish the 44 recognized genera of the Ophichthidae. Two new genera are described: Ethadophis, represented by E. byrnei n, sp. (the genotype) and E. merenda n, sp., and Leuropharus (genotype ...
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(University of Hawai'i Press, 2004-07)In November 2001, we observed a herd of killer whales (Orcinus orca) preying upon a leatherback turtle (Dermochelys coriacea) off the coast of California. Here we provide details of the event and speculate that oceanic ...
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(Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press, 2006-10)Killer whales (Orcinus orca) have only infrequently been reported from Hawaiian waters, and most of what is known about killer whales worldwide comes from studies in coastal temperate waters. Here we present 21 records of ...
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(University of Hawai'i Press, 2001-07)A rare sighting of five killer whales (Orcinus orca), including one juvenile, occurred on 20 March 2000 during an aerial survey of waters west of the Hawaiian island of Ni'ihau. The sighting occurred ca. 11 km west ...
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(University of Hawai'i Press, 1991-07)Colonies of Pocillopora damicornis were placed in a sealed aquarium in the dark. Water velocity was altered and measured in 10 different experiments. During each experiment, seawater in the aquarium was supersaturated with ...
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(University of Hawai'i Press, 1952-10)
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(University of Hawai'i Press, 1951-04)
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Laboratory Formation and Characterization of Taranakite in a Hydrol Humic Latosol Soil from Hawaii (University of Hawai'i Press, 1966-10)The mineral taranakite was obtained in reactions between samples of an Akaka soil and monopotassium phosphate solutions ranging from 0.2 to 0.6 molar, at pH values of the reacting system ranging from 2.3 to 2.9. ...
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(University of Hawaii Press, 1987)Octopus digueti Perrier and Rochebrune, 1894 was reared through its life cycle at 25°C in a closed seawater system using artificial sea water. Two field-collected females produced 231 hatchlings: 193 hatchlings were ...
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(Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press, 2007-01)The first observations of reproduction and associated behaviors in captive bigfin eelpout, Lycodes cortezianus, and pallid eelpout, Lycodapus mandibularis, are reported here. One Lycodes cortezianus pair produced 13 ...
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(University of Hawaii Press, 1980-10)The labrid genus Pseudolabrus is represented in the islands of the southeast Pacific by three previously known species, P. fuentesi, P. semifasciatus, and P. gayi. A new species from Rapa, P. torotai, is described; ...
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(University of Hawai'i Press, 1968-07)
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(University of Hawaii Press, 1993-07)Uina'i, with only 361 km2 of land area, is one of the smaller Hawaiian Islands. Its forest area is limited and its complement of flora and fauna is correspondingly low. Its relative isolation, however, has allowed ...