The October 2017 issue of Pacific Science begins with a Special Feature, which includes seven open-access articles available on Project MUSE and Bio-One.
Special Feature: Scaling Up Restoration Efforts in the Pacific Islands (Open-Access)
- Scaling Up Restoration Efforts in the Pacific Islands: A Call for Clear Management Objectives, Targeted Research to Minimize Uncertainty, and Innovative Solutions to a Wicked Problem by Melissa R. Price and Robert J. Toonen
- Estimating Cost-Effectiveness of Hawaiian Dry Forest Restoration Using Spatial Changes in Water Yield and Landscape Flammability under Climate Change by Christopher A. Wada, Leah L. Bremer, Kimberly Burnett, Clay Trauernicht, Thomas Giambelluca, Lisa Mandle, Elliott Parsons, Charlotte Weil, Natalie Kurashima, and Tamara Ticktin
- Monitoring Eradication of European Mouflon Sheep from the Kahuku Unit of Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park by Seth W. Judge, Steven C. Hess, Jonathan K. Faford, Dexter Pacheco, and Christina R. Leopold
- I ka wä ma mua: The Value of a Historical Ecology Approach to Ecological Restoration in Hawai‘i by Natalie Kurashima, Jason Jeremiah, and Tamara Ticktin
- Spatial Modeling of Social-Ecological Management Zones of the Ali‘i Era on the Island of Kaua‘i, with Implications for Large-Scale Biocultural Conservation and Forest Restoration Efforts in Hawai‘i by Kawika B. Winter and Matthew Lucas
- Toward Cost-Effective Restoration: Scaling Up Restoration in Ecosystems Degraded by Nonnative Invasive Grass and Ungulates by Kelly B. Powell, Lisa M. Ellsworth, Creighton M. Litton, Kirsten L. L. Oleson, and Selita A. Ammondt
- Impacts of Endangered Seabirds on Nutrient Cycling in Montane Forest Ecosystems of Hawai‘i by Julia A. Rowe, Creighton M. Litton, Christopher A. Lepczyk, and Brian N. Popp
Regular Articles
- Butterflies (Lepidoptera) of the Republic of the Marshall Islands by Donald W. Buden and W. J. Tennent
- Diet of the Wavy Turban Snail, Megastraea undosa (Gastropoda: Turbinidae), in Subtropical Rocky Reefs by Alejandra Mazariegos-Villarreal, María de Lourdes Fierro-Jaúregui, Karla León-Cisneros, and Elisa Serviere-Zaragoza
- Nematodes of Five Species of Dicroglossid Frogs (Anura: Dicroglossidae) from Southeast Asia by Stephen R. Goldberg, Charles R. Bursey, and L. Lee Grismer
Find the full text of the issue at Project MUSE
About the Journal
Appearing quarterly since 1947, Pacific Science is an international, multidisciplinary journal reporting research on the biological and physical sciences of the Pacific basin. It focuses on biogeography, ecology, evolution, geology and volcanology, oceanography, paleontology, and systematics.
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