Biodiversity patterns emerge as a consequence of evolutionary and ecological processes.
Their relative importance is frequently tested on model ecosystems such as oceanic islands …

Almost 90 per cent of Hawaii's flora are found nowhere else in the world. This text presents a
revised edition of a guide book to these and other plants that comprise some of the most …

During their colonization by Polynesians and later by Europeans, the Hawaiian islands
suffered a massive loss of species. All the extinctions are indirectly attributable to human …

This report documents a methodology for projecting the geographic ranges of plant species
in the Hawaiian Islands. The methodology consists primarily of the creation of several …

Aim To estimate the rate of adaptive radiation of endemic Hawaiian Bidens and to compare
their diversification rates with those of other plants in Hawaii and elsewhere with rapid rates …

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The Hawaiian Archipelago, located more than 4000 km from the nearest continent and 3000
km north of the Marquesas, the nearest high islands, is the world's most isolated group of …

Background Putative phytogeographical links between America (especially North America)
and the Hawaiian Islands have figured prominently in disagreement and debate about the …

This study quantifies long–term landscape changes in the Hawaiian archipelago relating to
dispersal, speciation and extinction. Accounting for volcano growth, subsidence and …

The loss of biodiversity is now recognized as a global problem of significant magnitude
[Science 289: 2279]. Conservation efforts focus on measuring species diversity and …