Author: E. Alison Kay

Publisher: University of Hawaii Press

Published: 1994-12-01

Total Pages: 540

ISBN-13: 9780824816599

This volume brings together recent primary source materials on major themes in Hawaiian natural history: the geological processes that have built the Islands; the physical factors that influence the Island's terrestrial ecosystems; the dynamics of the sea that support coral reefs, fish, and mollusks; the peculiarities of animals and plants that have evolved in the Islands and are found nowhere else; and the human impact on the land, plants, and animals.