Molecular dating offers a tool for inferring the time of divergence between two lineages. In
this study, we discuss how dated molecular reconstructions are informative of two different …

Abstract The Hawaiian mints (Lamiaceae), one of the largest endemic plant lineages in the
archipelago, provide an excellent system to study rapid diversification of a lineage with a …

Hawai'i's Ferns and Fern Allies is the first comprehensive survey of Hawai'i's ferns to be
published in more than 100 years. The book covers endemic, indigenous, and naturalized …

The land surfaces of the Hawaiian islands represent an age sequence from very recent on
the island of Hawaii to over 5 million years old on the island of Kauai. Development of …

Abstract The Hawaiian Plant DNA Library of endemic and indigenous plant species
preserves genetic material from all Hawaiian Islands. DNA accession numbers are reported …

The extreme isolation and mid‐Pacific origin of the Hawaiian archipelago has ensured that
all indigenous organisms have arrived via long‐distance dispersal or have evolved from …

Accepting the view that the Hawaiian flora is a disharmonic assemblage of a comparatively
small number of genera capable of long-distance dispersal, the author shows that …

Background Organization and presentation of biodiversity data is greatly facilitated by
databases that are specially designed to allow easy data entry and organized data display …

Paleoenvironmental investigations were undertaken on Laysan Island in the remote
Northwestern Hawaiian Islands to investigate its flora before historical observations …

Diagnostic characters of 40 new additions to the Hawaiian flora (including weedy species)
and 17 rediscovered and recollected taxa (mostly endemic and previously considered …