Books
If you click on the thumbnail images this will open
up the appropriate book page at Amazon.co.uk where you can find more
details on the publication.
I found these two books Hawaii's Fishes
and Hawaii's Sea Creatures by John P Hoover on the
native fish and invertebrates to be particularly helpful, with the
content being deliberately aimed at aquarists as well as divers.
Shore Fishes of Hawaii by John E
Randall is geared more towards the diver.
While it covers a few more species than John Hoover's 'Hawaii's
Fishes', the quality of pictures and design is not quite as good in my
opinion, and the information on individual species is sometimes more
limited.
Corals
of Hawaii by Douglas Fenner is a useful book, and of interest
because he argues that a number of Hawaiian corals have been
misidentified. However,
until his views have been subjected to peer review I have tended to stay
with the coral attributions supported by Veron and others.
Hawaiian
Reefs by Ron Russo and An Underwater Guide to Hawaii
by Ann Fielding and Ed Robinson both attempt to cover similar territory
to the two books by John Hoover listed above.
Restricted to one volume they are both obviously a lot less
comprehensive. Of the two I
would say 'An Underwater Guide to Hawaii' is the better book.
Hawaiian
Coral Reef Ecology by Dave Gulko was a great disappointment and
proof of the adage 'never judge a book by it cover (or title)'!
Rather than a scholarly treatise on Hawaiian reefs this is
actually just a school book on corals and coral reefs, with actual
Hawaiian specific content making up no more than 5-10% and being pretty
superficial at that.
Hawaiian
Reef Animals by Edmund Hobson and EH Chave is essentially a
picture book with only a cursory amount of text.
The pictures of different Hawaiian reef scenes were helpful but
this book was otherwise of limited use.
Rainbow
Reefs by John P Hoover is another picture book, but its a
lovely one which, as the subtitle says, features "images from Hawaii's
underwater paradise".
Corals
of the World by JEN Veron in three volumes is the stony coral
identification and distribution guide.
It is an excellent set of books detailing the different coral
genus and species, with information on their natural habitats and
distribution in the wild.
World
Atlas of Coral Reefs by Mark Spalding, Corinna Ravilious, and
Edmund Green provides detailed descriptions and maps of the world's
coral reefs and the threats they face.
Links
Detailed below are a few of the Hawaiian sites I
visited when researching the Hawaiian coral reef biotope. Just
click on the banner to open up the site in a new page.
The
Hawaii Coral Reef Network has been a very useful resource, with its many
links leading me off to other useful sites in turn.
The Network was set up to try to improve communication between
the many different groups involved in conservation of the Hawaiian
reefs.
The
Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Marine National Monument is the largest
marine conservation area in the world, encompassing 137,792 square miles
of the Pacific Ocean.
The
School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology at the University of
Hawaii have produced The Ocean Atlas of Hawaii.
It contains interesting detail on the ocean around Hawaii - the
marine climate, water properties, currents, tides, and waves.
The
Hawaiian Coral Reef Assessment and Monitoring Programme (CRAMP) set up
over 30 long-term coral reef monitoring sites.
The website provides details on the project and downloadable
copies of CRAMP publications.
The
photos on the Fishpics Hawaii site are by George and Yuki Stender, and
form a useful online ID resource.
The
Waikiki Aquarium was founded in 1904 and is probably one of the world's
most respected aquariums.
