Native Hawaiian plants make up a unique flora because of the extreme isolation of the Hawaiian Islands. When the Polynesian settlers arrived, they encountered many plants that they did not know before. Over the course of generations, the Hawaiian people learned how to use the native flora to meet th [...]
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Donald Abbott wrote his first account of Hawaiian ascidians in 1941, as an undergraduate at the University of Hawaii. That essay grew into this book on ascidians. A. Todd Newberry added to and enlarged the introductory sections with additional revision and enlargement of the species accounts in most [...]
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The marine red algae of the Hawaiian Islands, and indeed of the islands and parts of the continents of the Pacific, are presented in this comprehensive volume. There are 343 descriptions and illustrations of Rodopohyta referenced as well as keys and remarks about them. Dr. Isabella Aiona Abbott is a [...]
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A Tropical Garden Flora: Plants Cultivated in the Hawaiian Islands and Other Tropical Places describes more that 2,100 species of tropical and sub-tropical plants, provides brief descriptions and keys for identification, and weaves together the origin, uses, biology, landscape properties, and practi [...]
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This new and completely revised edition of Dr. Tomlich's classic 1969 volume is a considerably expanded and comprehensive study of all the mammal species found in our island state. Ecological, behavioral, and historical information is presented in a lucid and readable style, making this book as much [...]
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This book covers intertidal and deep subtidal habitats of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands and the main Hawaiian Islands. Many new species and records of distribution in the Hawaiian Islands are described, with 61 species of brown algae and 105 species of green algae. This book provides a comprehen [...]
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Originally published in 1972, Native Planters in Old Hawaii remains one of the most important ethnographic works on traditional Hawaiian culture. It has been reprinted with an index to subjects and chants, making  this edition invaluable for scholars and laymen alike. This pioneering study of culti [...]
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There are 80 surgeonfishes in the world, including some of our most beautiful marine fishes. Most species are found on coral reefs in tropic seas; twenty-four occur in the Hawaiian Islands. This book ilustrates all 80 species, many with color photographs of the juveniles as well. Each species accoun [...]
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Hawai‘i's Invasive Species describes the causes and consequences of the introduction of invasive alien species of plants and animals to the Hawaiian Islands. Almost a hundred species are covered in detail, illustrating the negative impacts of invasive alien species on human health and quality of l [...]
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Many foreigners came to the Hawaiian Islands, but only a few left a legacy as far-reaching as German physician and botanist Dr. William Hillebrand. Who was this man who worked tirelessly to beautify Honolulu and to improve the islands' agriculture? The author guides us through Hillebrand's twenty-on [...]
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