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(University of Hawai'i Press, 1999-01)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 Hawai'i at Manoa. The faculty and students ...
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(University of Hawai'i Press, 1999-07)Distribution and abundance of meiofauna on a sandy beach in Big Lagoon, California, were studied during a 3-week period in the summer of 1996. Sediment cores were taken to a depth of 10 em at three tidal levels. In addition ...
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(University of Hawai'i Press, 1999-07)Diet of rainbow trout, Oncorhynchus mykiss (Walbaum), introduced by the State of Hawai'i into tropical headwater streams of the Waimea River in the Koke'e area of the Hawaiian island of Kaua'i, was examined in this study ...
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(University of Hawai'i Press, 1999-07)Four small Indian mongoose removal plots were monitored on two islands in Hawai'i during a 3-yr period. Both males and females showed natal dispersal in the fall. Males also dispersed during the breeding season. The ...
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(University of Hawai'i Press, 1999-01)Cypraea caputdraconis Melvill, 1888 (commonly known as pure), endemic to Easter Island, is an important mollusk in Easter Island handicrafts. Knowledge about its reproduction is necessary for sustainable management ...
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(University of Hawai'i Press, 1999-01)Vegetation of the Tropical Pacific Islands by Dieter Mueller-Dombois and F. Raymond Fosberg, Springer Verlag, New York, 1998.733 pages, 521 illustrations. ISBN 0-387-98285-X (hardcover), $135; ISBN 0-387-987-98313-9 ( ...
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(University of Hawai'i Press, 1999-07)Taro, Colocasia esculenta (L.) Schott, is considered to be an introduced crop in New Caledonia and has been cultivated since its introduction by Melanesian farmers. Wild germplasm exists on the main (continental) island and ...
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(University of Hawai'i Press, 1999-10)Caranx caballus Gunther, a wide-ranging tropical eastern Pacific carangid fish, was reported from the Hawaiian Islands as C. kuhlii (later as C. kalla) from only two specimens collected in 1922. Because no further ...
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(University of Hawai'i Press, 1999-07)The historically significant battleship USS Missouri was recently decommissioned and moved from Bremerton, Washington, to Hawai'i to become a memorial museum at Pearl Harbor, O'ahu, Hawai'i. Dry-docking was completed ...
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(University of Hawai'i Press, 1999-01)The Hawaiian tree snail genus Partulina, from Maui, Moloka'i, Uina'i, O'ahu, and the island of Hawai'i, is the sister-genus of the endangered Achatinella, found only on the island of O'ahu. Life histories of species in ...
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(University of Hawai'i Press, 1999-04)A new picture-winged Hawaiian Drosophila species from the islands of Kaua'i and O'ahu that is morphologically indistinguishable from Drosophila grimshawi Oldenberg from the Maui Nui islands is described, based on ...
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(University of Hawai'i Press, 1999-07)Information is presented on the behavior, abundance, and distribution of Dialommus fuscus Gilbert in its intertidal habitat on the island of Santa Cruz, Galapagos Archipelago, Ecuador.
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(University of Hawai'i Press, 1999-04)We report an assemblage of ca. 6900 vertebrate fossils from a preliminary excavation at Barn Owl Cave, Isla Floreana, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador. Age of this stratified deposit ranges from historic times (less than 200 ...
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(University of Hawai'i Press, 1999-10)Tailings disposal from the Bougainville Copper Limited open-cut porphyry copper mine on Bougainville Island, Papua New Guinea (1972-1989) impacted the ichthyofauna of the Jaba River, one of the largest rivers on the island. ...
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(University of Hawai'i Press, 1999-10)The Hawaiian Plant DNA Library of endemic and indigenous plant species preserves genetic material from all Hawaiian Islands. DNA accession numbers are reported here for 155 native species representing 92 genera and 48 ...
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(University of Hawai'i Press, 1999-10)A single specimen of the endemic anchialine shrimp Halocaridina rubra Holthuis was collected on the reef under a brick in a freshwater extrusion in the lower intertidal at Kawaiku'i Beach Park, Niu Valley, O'ahu, ...
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(University of Hawai'i Press, 1999-07)Principal responses of the physical environment of the Fiji Islands to tropical cyclones Gavin and June in 1997 were investigated. These cyclones, which entered Fiji waters in March and May 1997, respectively, were the ...
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(University of Hawai'i Press, 1999-01)Native Hawaiian dryland forests, important from both ecological and cultural perspectives, are among the more poorly known Hawaiian vegetation types. Wood-charcoal assemblages from archaeological features offer one means ...
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(University of Hawai'i Press, 1999-01)The strong temperature increase during the 1982/1983 El Nino event caused local extinction of many species in large coastal zones of northern Chile and Peru. One brown algal species affected by massive mortality was ...
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(University of Hawai'i Press, 1999-01)A rich body of local knowledge on the behavior and reproductive biology of the land crab Cardisoma hirtipes (called Kakau Tina in the Ngge1a language) is reported here from West Nggela, Solomon Islands. Aspects of West ...