Pacific Science Volume 46, Number 2, 1992

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46:2 Table of Contents - Pacific Science

(University of Hawai'i Press, 1992-04)
Altitudinal Change in Plant Endemism, Species Turnover, and Diversity on Isla Santa Cruz, the Galapagos Islands

Itow, Syuzo (University of Hawai'i Press, 1992-04)

Vegetation zones of Isla Santa Cruz in the Galapagos Islands range from the lowland dry zone, through transition and moist zones, to the highland zone, reflecting the precipitation pattern. The zones are deflected upward ...
Biogeography of the Tropical Pacific

Stoddart, DR (University of Hawai'i Press, 1992-04)

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 ...
Disjunction of Tree Species in Mountain Forests, Southern North Island, New Zealand: A Review of Paleobotanical Evidence

McQueen, DR (University of Hawai'i Press, 1992-04)

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 ...
Distributional Dynamics in the Hawaiian Vegetation

Mueller-Dombois, Dieter (University of Hawai'i Press, 1992-04)

Vegetation ecology is usually divided into two broad research areas, floristic/environmental gradient analysis and studies of vegetation dynamics. The early influential American ecologist Clements combined the two areas ...
F. Raymond Fosberg: An Appreciation

Mueller-Dombois, Dieter (University of Hawai'i Press, 1992-04)
Origin of Distylium Dry Forest and Occurrence of Endangered Species in the Bonin Islands

Shimizu, Yoshikazu (University of Hawai'i Press, 1992-04)

The Distylium dry forest is a low-stature forest or scrub, 0.5-8 m high, growing in dry habitats with shallow soils in the Bonin Islands. The forest, dominated by Distylium lepidotum, has the highest species diversity ...
Preface

Mueller-Dombois, D; Itow, S (University of Hawai'i Press, 1992-04)
Vegetation Ecology of Fiji: Past, Present, and Future Perspectives

Ash, Julian (University of Hawai'i Press, 1992-04)

The Fiji Archipelago comprises a Tertiary island arc with several hundred small and a few large mountainous islands near the northeastern corner of the Australian tectonic plate, 3000 km from continental Australia-New Guinea. ...
Vegetation of Nauru and the Gilbert Islands: Case Studies of Poverty, Degradation, Disturbance, and Displacement

Thaman, Randolph R (University of Hawai'i Press, 1992-04)

The indigenous floras of the raised phosphatic limestone island of Nauru and the atolls of the Gilbert Islands are among the poorest on earth. Long settlement, widespread destruction during World War II, monocultural expansion ...
Vegetation of Samoa and Tonga

Whistler, W Arthur (University of Hawai'i Press, 1992-04)

Based on field studies and a previous review of the literature, 22 plant communities are recognized in the two adjacent South Pacific archipelagoes of Samoa and Tonga. Because of similarities of climate and flora, most ...
Vegetation of the Society Islands

Fosberg, F Raymond (University of Hawai'i Press, 1992-04)

The vegetation of the Society Islands, 16°-18° south of the equator, in the wet SE trade wind belt, is described. The flora is primarily of Indo-Malayan derivation with a few New Zealand, Australian, American, and Hawaiian ...
Vegetation of the Wet Windward Slope of Haleakala, Maui, Hawaii

Kitayama, Kanehiro; Mueller-Dombois, Dieter (University of Hawai'i Press, 1992-04)

The vegetation on the wet windward slope of Haleakala was studied for community organization along a transect between 350 m a.s.l. and the summit (3055 m). The plant communities classified by the Braun-Blanquet synthesis ...