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(University of Hawai'i Press, 1991-04)A survey of the genetic resources of kava (Piper methysticum Forst. f. and P. wichmannii C. DC.) was conducted throughout the Pacific. Leaf tissues of more than 300 accessions, collected on 35 islands, were analyzed ...
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(University of Hawai'i Press, 1991-01)Gracilaria mixta from South China is one of several terete species of Gracllaria that requires critical microscopic examination for identification. This new species demonstrates a mixture of spermatangial types that ...
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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, 1991-04)Micrometeorological measurements were made in the lower alpine zone of Mt. Haleakala on Maui, Hawaiian Islands, in March 1988 to characterize ecologically significant climatological parameters. Daily courses of photos ...
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(University of Hawai'i Press, 1991-07)Effects on mortality and settlement of Pocillopora damicornis planula larvae during recovery from low levels of Ni++ were investigated. Results indicated that a nickel concentration of 9 ppm over 12 hr was sufficient to ...
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(University of Hawai'i Press, 1991-10)Natural interspecific hybridization between Gunnera bracteata and G. peltata (Gunneraceae) in the Juan Fernandez Islands, Chile, is analyzed morphologically and chemically. Parental types from isolated populations ...
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(University of Hawai'i Press, 1991-04)Thirty new records of fishes are reported from Johnston Atoll. Three are Hawaiian endemics, six are widespread Indo-Pacific species that reach Johnston but not Hawaii, and the remainder are widespread species that ...
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(University of Hawai'i Press, 1991-10)Recent observations of terns, either the Old World Little Tern (Sterna albifrons) or the New World Least Tern (Sterna antillarum), at Pearl and Hermes Reef in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands have documented that one of ...
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(University of Hawai'i Press, 1991-04)Current anthropological theory and archaeological evidence have led to a reappraisal of the hypothesized route of dispersal of the Polynesian rat, Rattus exulans, through the Pacific and to New Zealand. This commensal ...
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(University of Hawai'i Press, 1991-01)Osmotic relations of several strand species were investigated by determining osmotic potentials and sodium contents of leaf samples collected in the field, by measuring the electrical conductivity of groundwaters and soil ...
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(University of Hawai'i Press, 1991-01)A census of fruit bats (Pteropus mariannus ulthiensis) was conducted on Ulithi Atoll, Caroline Islands, in March 1986. We observed 715 bats in 3.2 km2 of habitat on 14 of 43 islets, yielding a minimum average density ...
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(University of Hawai'i Press, 1991-07)Planulae larvae of the reef coral Pocillopora damicornis were exposed to three pesticides in concentrations ranging from 0.01 to 100 ppm. Actively swimming planulae were held in test solutions for 96 hr, after which viability ...
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(University of Hawai'i Press, 1991-07)Phestilla sibogae, a nudibranch living on corals of the genus Porites, is rarely found on the reef at Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii, although Porites compressa is a dominant coral there. This is probably due to massive predation on ...
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(University of Hawai'i Press, 1991-01)Recent discovery of a population of plants referable to Stenogyne kealia e, which was treated as a synonym of the widespread Kaua'i species, S. purpur ea, has provided new information that shows that it is a distinct ...
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(University of Hawai'i Press, 1991-10)Three species of Tabanidae, one Cydistomyia from the Solomon Islands and two species of Tabanus from Fiji, are described. New distribution records for two Cydistomyia, one Japenoides, and three Tabanus species are presented ...
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(University of Hawai'i Press, 1991-10)Twelve specimens of the Sulawesi black racer, Coluber (Ptyas) dipsas, have been reported in the literature; none of these is from American collections. Morphology and relationships of the snake, based on a fresh specimen, ...
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(University of Hawai'i Press, 1991-07)Albert H. and Dora M. Banner produced a total of 43 documents (a thesis, a report, and 41 publications) on alpheid shrimp over a period of 47 yr. They studied the Indo-Pacific Faunal Region and focused on the systematics and ...
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(University of Hawai'i Press, 1991-10)Ten composite soil samples (0-15 cm depth) were collected from abandoned phosphate-mined sites on Nauru Island (Central Pacific) and analyzed for % organic C and % N. The samples represent a temporal sequence (chronosequence) ...