Botany 450

Natural History of the Hawaiian Islands

General Information

• Instructors: Dr. Charles Lamoureux and Dr. E. A. Kay
• Office: CHL: Lyon Arboretum (988-3177), EAK: Edm 351 (956-8620)
• Lectures: Tuesday and Thursday 10:30 - 11:20 (St. John 011)
• Textbook: A Natural History of the Hawaiian Islands: Selected Readings II, edited by E. A. Kay

• Introduction
• History of scientific knowledge in hawaii
• The Pacific basin
• Climatology
• Soils
• The oceanographic climate
• The high Hawaiian Islands: inshore aquatic areas
• The high Hawaiian Islands: processes in aquatic areas
• The environment and biota of the Hawaiian Islands: aquatic
• Atolls: biogenic islands in oceanic deserts
• The biotic environment and biota of the Hawaiian Islands: terrestrial
• The high Hawaiian Islands: terrestrial areas
• Field Trip: Diamond Head Beach Park
• The low Hawaiian Islands as atolls
• The Hawaiian Monk Seal
• Insular evolution
• Field Trip: Ka'ena Point
• Endemism and evolution in the Hawaiian biota: plants
• Endemism and evolution in the Hawaiian biota: plants
• Endemism and evolution in the Hawaiian biota: marine mollusks
• Endemism and evolution in the Hawaiian biota: terrestrial mollusks
• Endemism and evolution in the Hawaiian biota: insects
• Endemism and evolution in the Hawaiian biota: evolution in Hawaiian Drosophila
• Evolutionary ecology of Hawaiian cave and aeolian ecosystems
• Evolutionary ecology of Hawaiian freshwater ecosystems
• Effects of humans on the marine biota of the Hawaiian Islands
• Endemism and evolution in the Hawaiian biota: birds
• Endemism and evolution in the Hawaiian biota: fossil birds
• A photographic journey through evolution Hawaiian style
• Field Trip: Upper Manoa Valley
• Effects of the Polynesians on Hawaiian natural history
• Effects of humans on the terrestrial biota of the Hawaiian Islands