Alaska : its southern coast and the Sitkan archipelago /

Author's letters to various newspapers on her two summer cruises in 1883-84 assembled and amplified by reference to published information to form an informative tourist guide to the region.

Oceanic [mythology] /

Each plate accompanied by guard sheet with descriptive letterpress.

A record of the Buddhist religion as practised in India and the Malay archipelago (A. D. 671-695) /

Half-title: Buddhist practices in India.

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration authorization : hearings before the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, United States Senate, Ninety-eighth Congress, first session, on NOAA ocean and coastal programs, the National Marine Fisheries Service, and atmospheric and satellite programs, February 28, March 10, and 14, 1983.

"Serial no. 98-18."

Oceanic ichthyology, a treatise on the deep-sea and pelagic fishes of the world, based chiefly upon the collections made by the steamers Blake, Albatross, and Fish Hawk in the northwestern Atlantic, with an atlas containing 417 figures.

Published at the joint expense of the Smithsonian institution and the United States National museum.

Progress report - California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations.

At head of title: State of California, Dept. of Fish and Game, Marine Research Committee.

The Journal of the Indian archipelago and eastern Asia

Mode of access: Internet.

The Eastern archipelago. A description of the scenery, animal and vegetable life, people, and physical wonders of the islands of the eastern seas.

Mode of access: Internet.

Australasia and the Oceanic region; with some notice of New Guinea, from Adelaide via Torres Straits to Port Darwin, thence round West Australia.

Mode of access: Internet.

Literature on wildlife research in the Madrean Archipelago : 1800s-1994 /

"March 1997."

At your service : the research and survey fleet of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration /

Shipping list no.: 86-450-P.

A list of lecturers on southeast Asia (Burma, Siam, French Indo-China, Malay Peninsula, Malay Archipelago, Philippines) and adjacent areas.

Pub. by the institute under its earlier name: East Indies Institute of America.

The Oceanic languages : their grammatical structure, vocabulary, and origin,

"The work is mainly a grammar and dictionary of only one Oceanic language--that of Efate in the New Hebrides. The comparative portions refer only to a very few other Oceanic languages, and are quoted only to illustrate certain features in the grammar of the Efate."--Review by S. H. Ray in Man, VIII (1908) no. 40.

Spatial and temporal variability in somatic growth of green sea turtles (Chelonia mydas) resident in the Hawaiian Archipelago

The somatic growth dynamics of green turtles ( Chelonia mydas) resident in five separate foraging grounds within the Hawaiian Archipelago were assessed using a robust non-parametric regression modelling approach. The foraging grounds range from coral reef habitats at the north-western end of the archipelago, to coastal habitats around the main islands at the southeastern end of the archipelago. Pelagic juveniles recruit to these neritic foraging grounds from ca. 35 cm SCL or 5 kg ( similar to 6 years of age), but grow at foraging-ground-specific rates, which results in quite different size- and age-specific growth rate functions. Growth rates were estimated for the five populations as change in straight carapace length ( cm SCL year) 1) and, for two of the populations, also as change in body mass ( kg year) 1). Expected growth rates varied from ca. 0 - 2.5 cm SCL year) 1, depending on the foraging-ground population, which is indicative of slow growth and decades to sexual maturity, since expected size of first-time nesters is greater than or equal to 80 cm SCL. The expected size- specific growth rate functions for four populations sampled in the southeastern archipelago displayed a non-monotonic function, with an immature growth spurt at ca. 50 - 53 cm SCL ( similar to 18 - 23 kg) or ca. 13 - 19 years of age. The growth spurt for the Midway atoll population in the northwestern archipelago occurs at a much larger size ( ca. 65 cm SCL or 36 kg), because of slower immature growth rates that might be due to a limited food stock and cooler sea surface temperature. Expected age-at-maturity was estimated to be ca. 35 - 40 years for the four populations sampled at the south-eastern end of the archipelago, but it might well be > 50 years for the Midway population. The Hawaiian stock comprises mainly the same mtDNA haplotype, with no differences in mtDNA stock composition between foraging-ground populations, so that the geographic variability in somatic growth rates within the archipelago is more likely due to local environmental factors rather than genetic factors. Significant temporal variability was also evident, with expected growth rates declining over the last 10 - 20 years, while green turtle abundance within the archipelago has increased significantly since the mid-1970s. This inverse relationship between somatic growth rates and population abundance suggests a density-dependent effect on somatic growth dynamics that has also been reported recently for a Caribbean green turtle stock. The Hawaiian green turtle stock is characterised by slow growth rates displaying significant spatial and temporal variation and an immature growth spurt. This is consistent with similar findings for a Great Barrier Reef green turtle stock that also comprises many foraging-ground populations spanning a wide geographic range.