The Albert L. Tester Memorial Symposium is held in honor of Professor Albert L. Tester, who, at the time of his death in 1974, was senior professor of zoology at the University of Hawaii. The faculty and students of the ...

Many previous biogeographic regionalizations of the islands and reefs of the tropical Pacific are unsatisfactory: the regions as defined are heterogeneous, localities with unlike biotas are grouped together, and those ...

Net CO2 uptake at light saturation (Pmax) was measured (both area and weight basis) for leaves of four categories based on leaf age and branch position in juvenile and mature trees of Metrosideros polymorpha, a ...

Dominant trees of New Zealand forests, particularly Nothofagus, which has low seed mobility, show major distribution gaps, associated with past glacial and volcanic destruction of forest. In the southern North Island ...

Quantitative and qualitative sampling of intertidal algal assemblages on a limestone bench (O'ahu) and basalt benches (O'ahu and Hawai'i) resulted in enumeration of more than 100 species of macrophytic and turf species on ...

Tateyama, near Tokyo (35° N lat.), is the site of the world's most northern occurrence of living hermatypic corals and is also the site (in the Numa beds) of a substantial outcrop of Holocene fossil corals with a radiocarbon ...

Study of the geography of benthic marine algae has traditionally taken the form of descriptions of floras, analyses of floras in terms of floristic components, comparison of the flora and vegetation of one area with that ...