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Ahupuaa Research

Important note

The resources below are not an exhaustive list. When you click one of the resources, look at the subject headings and click any of those to be led to similar materials. You can also construct an Advance Search in OneSearch with the subject headings and specific keywords such as your ahupuaʻa name or a specific place name in the ahupuaʻa.

General Ecology, Natural History, Resource Management

General Ecology and Natural History

Islands in a Far Sea: The Fate of Nature in Hawaii, Revised Edition.
Publication Date: 2005
Comprehensive environmental history of Hawai'i
Hawaiian Natural History, Ecology, and Evolution
Publication Date: 2002
Overview of ecology with annotated bibliography; good overall reference book that gives background information
A Natural history of the Hawaiian Islands : selected readings II
Publication Date: 1994
General natural history information about Hawaiʻi
Conservation biology in Hawaiʻi by Charles P. Stone
Publication Date: 1989
Overview of Hawaiʻi's ecosystems and conservation issues surrounding them, includes useful references.

Watersheds, Coral Reefs, Fishes and Fisheries, Fishponds

Watersheds

Atlas of Hawaiian Watershed & Their Aquatic Resources.
Covers all islands, organized by districts then ahupuaa. The link goes to the online website instead of the physical copies in the Hawaiian Collection.

Coral Reefs

A Survey of the Hawaiian Coral Reefs by Vaughan Maccaughey
Publication Date: The American Naturalist, 01 August 1918, Vol.52(620/621), pp.409-438
Provides tidbits of information about various coral reefs in places like Waikiki, Kaneohe, and Pearl Harbor.

Fishes and Fisheries

Shore Fishes of Hawaiʻi by John E. Randall
Publication Date: 2010 (University of Hawaiʻi Press)
Online copy (UHM only)
Print copy
https://uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/shore-fishes-of-hawaii-revised-edition/
A history of fishing practices and marine fisheries of the Hawaiian Islands (Ka hana lawaiʻa a me nā koʻa o na kai ʻewalu) by Maly, Kepā.; Maly, Onaona.; Nature Conservancy of Hawaii.; Kumu Pono Associates.
Publication Date: 2003
A plan for the development of the Hawaiian fisheries by Bell, Frank Thomas; Higgins, Elmer
Publication Date: 1939
The commercial fisheries of the Hawaiian Islands in 1903 by Cobb, John N. (John Nathan)
Publication Date: 1905

Fishponds

Hawaiian fishponds by Summers, Catherine C.
Publication Date: 1964

Beaches, Limu, Reef Plants, Seabirds

Beaches

Beaches of Oahu by John Clark
Publication Date: 1977
Beaches of the Big Island by John Clark
Publication Date: 1985
Beaches of Kauaʻi and Niʻihau by John Clark
Publication Date: 1990
The beaches of Maui County by John Clark
Publication Date: 1990

Limu

Marine green and brown algae of the Hawaiian Islands by Abbott, Isabella Aiona.; Huisman, John M. (John Marinus); Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum.
Publication Date: 2004
Covers algae, but index not by place, but the descriptions of algae includes the place the algae is found.
Marine red algae of the Hawaiian Islands by Abbott, Isabella Aiona
Publication Date: 1999

Reef Plants

Hawaiian reef plants by Huisman, John M. (John Marinus); Abbott, Isabella Aiona.; Smith, Celia Marie.; University of Hawaii at Manoa. Sea Grant College Program.
Publication Date: 2007
Reef and shore fauna of Hawaii by Devaney, Dennis M.; Eldredge, Lucius G.; Edmondson, Charles Howard
Publication Date: 1977

Seabirds

Birds of Hawaii by George Campbell Munro
Publication Date: 1944 (Tongg publishing company)
Online copy (UHM only)
Print copy