Publications By Lab Members, 2001 - 2009

For complete publication lists please see individual lab members' pages


Journal and Book Covers

Hayes, K.A., Cowie, R.H., Jørgensen, A., Schultheiß, R., Albrecht, C. & Thiengo, S.C. 2009. Molluscan models in evolutionary biology: apple snails (Gastropoda: Ampullariidae) as a system for addressing fundamental questions. American Malacological Bulletin 27: 47-58.

Hayes, K.A., Joshi, R.C., Thiengo, S.C. & Cowie, R.H. 2008. Out of South America: multiple origins of non-native apple snails in Asia. Diversity and Distributions 14: 701-712.

Trewick, S.A. & Cowie, R.H. (eds.) 2008. Evolution on Pacific islands: Darwin's legacy. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B 363(1508): 3289-3465.

Héros, V., Cowie, R.H. & Bouchet, P. (eds.) 2008. Tropical deep-sea benthos 25. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle 196: 806 p.



Holland, B.S. & Cowie, R.H. 2007. A geographic mosaic of passive dispersal: population structure in the endemic Hawaiian amber snail Succinea caduca (Mighels, 1845). Molecular Ecology 16(12): 2422-2435.

Journal Articles

Submitted
Meyer, W.M., III & Cowie, R.H. Rapoport’s Rule predicts elevational range of invasive species on tropical islands. Biotropica.

Wood, K.R. & Cowie, R.H. Land snail records for Mokapu Islet, Moloka‘i, Hawaiian Isalnds. Bishop Museum Occasional Papers.

In Press
Rubinoff, D., Holland, B.S., Shibata, A., Messing, R.H. & Wright, M. Rapid invasion despite lack of genetic diversity in the erythrina gall wasp (Quadrastichus erythrinae Kim, 2004). Pacific Science.

Sugiura, S. Prey preference and gregarious attacks by the invasive flatworm Platydemus manokwari. Biological Invasions. On line.

Sugiura, S. Seasonal fluctuation of invasive flatworm predation pressure on land snails: implications for the range expansion and impacts of invasive species. Biological Conservation On line.

2009

Cowie, R.H., Dillon, R.T., Jr., Robinson, D.G. & Smith, J.W. Alien non-marine snails and slugs of priority quarantine importance in the United States: a preliminary risk assessment. American Malacological Bulletin 27: 113-132.

Hayes, K.A., Cowie, R.H. & Thiengo, S.C. A global phylogeny of apple snails: Gondwanan origin, generic relationships and the influence of outgroup choice (Caenogastropoda: Ampullariidae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 98: 61-76.

Hayes, K.A. Cowie, R.H., Jørgensen, A., Schultheiß, R., Albrecht, C. & Thiengo, S.C. Molluscan models in evolutionary biology: apple snails (Gastropoda: Ampullariidae) as a system for addressing fundamental questions. American Malacological Bulletin 27: 47-58.

Hayes, K.A. & Karl, S.A. Phylogenetic relationships of crown conchs (Melongena spp.): the corona complex simplified. Journal of Biogeography 36: 28-38.

Holland, B.S. & Cowie, R.H. Land snail models in island biogeography: a tale of two snails. American Malacological Bulletin 27: 59-68.

Meyer, W.M. & Shiels, A.B. Black rat (Rattus rattus) predation on nonindigenous snails in Hawai‘i: complex management implications. Pacific Science 63: 339-347.

2008
Cowie, R.H., Hayes, K.A., Tran, C.T. & Meyer, W.M., III. The horticultural industry as a vector of alien snails and slugs: widespread invasions in Hawaii. International Journal of Pest Management 54: 267-276.

Cowie, R.H. & Holland, B.S. Molecular biogeography and diversification of the endemic terrestrial fauna of the Hawaiian Islands. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 363: 3363-3376.

Cowie, R.H. & Wood, K.R. The land snails of the island of Lehua, Hawaiian Islands. Bishop Museum Occasional Papers 100: 50-52.

Gruner, D.S., Gotelli, N.J., Price, J.P. & Cowie, R.H. Does species diversity drive speciation: a reassessment with the Hawaiian biota. Ecography 31: 279-285.

Hayes, K.A., Joshi, R.C., Thiengo, S.C. & Cowie, R.H. Out of South America: multiple origins of non-native apple snails in Asia. Diversity and Distributions 14: 701-712.

Holland, B.S., Christensen, C.C., Hayes, K.A. & Cowie, R.H. Biocontrol in Hawaii: a response to Messing (2007). Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society 40: 81-83.

Meyer, W.M., Hayes, K.A. & Meyer, A.L. Giant African snail, Achatina fulica, as a snail predator. American Malacological Bulletin 24: 117-119.

Tran, C.T., Hayes, K.A. & Cowie, R.H. 2008. Lack of mitochondrial DNA diversity in invasive apple snails (Ampullariidae) in Hawaii. Malacologia 50: 351-357.

2007
Bird, C.E., Holland, B.S., Bowen, B.W. & Toonen, R.J. Contrasting phylogeography in three endemic Hawaiian limpets (Cellana spp.) with similar life histories. Molecular Ecology, 16(15): 3173-3187.

Cowie, R.H., Hayes, K.A., Tran, C.T. & Levin, P. Distribution of the invasive apple snail Pomacea canaliculata (Lamarck) in the Hawaiian Islands (Gastropoda: Ampullariidae). Bishop Museum Occasional Papers 96: 48-51.

Hayes, K.A., Tran, C.T. & Cowie, R.H. New records of alien Mollusca in the Hawaiian Islands: nonmarine snails and slugs (Gastropoda) associated with the horticultural trade. Bishop Museum Occasional Papers 96: 54-63.

Holland, B.S. & Cowie, R.H. A geographic mosaic of passive dispersal: population structure in the endemic Hawaiian amber snail Succinea caduca (Mighels, 1845). Molecular Ecology 16(12): 2422-2435.

Holland, B.S. & M.G. Hadfield. Molecular systematics of the endangered O'ahu tree snail Achatinella mustelina (Mighels 1845): Synonymization of subspecies and estimation of gene flow between chiral morphs. Pacific Science, 61(1): 53-66.

Rawlings, T.A., Hayes, K.A., Cowie, R.H. & Collins, T.M. The identity, distribution, and impacts of non-native apple snails in the continental United States. BMC Evolutionary Biology 7: 97 [14 p.] [published on line doi:10.1186/1471-2148-7-97; designated as 'highly accessed'].

Thiengo, S.C., Faraco, F.A., Salgado, N.C., Cowie, R.H. & Fernandez, M.A. Rapid spread of an invasive snail in South America: the giant African snail, Achatina fulica, in Brasil. Biological Invasions 9: 693-702.

2006
Cowie, R.H. & B.S. Holland. Dispersal is fundamental to evolution on oceanic islands. Journal of Biogeography, 33(2): 193-198. Guest Editorial.

Holland, B.S. & Cowie, R.H. Dispersal and vicariance in Hawaii: submarine slumping does not create deep interisland channels. Journal of Biogeography 33: 2155-2156.

Holland, B.S. & Cowie, R.H. New island records of an endemic Hawaiian land snail species, Succinea caduca Mighels (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Succineidae). Bishop Museum Occasional Papers 88: 58-60.

Meyer, W. M., III. Invasive land snail community structure: Distributions and associations of species along environmental gradients on the island of Hawaii. Pacific Science. 60:311-312.

Meyer, W.M. Records of rare ground-dwelling land snails on O'ahu. Bishop Museum Occasional Papers 8: 57-58.

2005
Cowie, R.H. Alien non-marine molluscs in the islands of the tropical and subtropical Pacific: a review. American Malacological Bulletin 20(1/2): 95-103.

Rubinoff, D. and Holland, B.S. Between the two extremes: Mitochondrial DNA is neither the panacea nor the nemesis of phylogenetic and taxonomic inference. Systematic Biology 54(6): 952-961.

2004
Cowie, R.H. Disappearing snails and alien invasions: the biodiversity/conservation interface in the Pacific. Journal of Conchology Special Publications 3: 23-37.

Cowie, R.H. and Grant-Mackie, J.A. The land snail fauna of the Mé Auré cave (WMD007), Moindou, New Caledonia: human introductions and faunal change. Pacific Science 58(3): 447-460.

Cowie, R.H. Cazzaniga, N.J. and Glaubrecht, M. The South American Mollusca of Johann Baptist Ritter von Spix and their publication by Johann Andreas Wagner. The Nautilus 118(2): 71-87.

Hayes, K.A. and Karl, S.A. Characterization of microsatellite markers from the gastropod genus Melongena. Molecular Ecology Notes 4: 755-757.

Holland, B.S., Dawson, M.N., Crow, G.L. and Hofmann, D.K. Global phylogeography of Cassiopea (Scyphozoa: Rhizostomeae): Molecular evidence for cryptic species and multiple invasions of the Hawaiian Islands. Marine Biology. 145: 1119-1128.

Holland, B.S. and Hadfield, M.G. Origin and diversification of the endemic Hawaiian tree snails (Achatinellinae: Achatinellidae) based on molecular evidence. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 32(2): 588-600.

Lydeard, C., Cowie, R.H., Ponder, W.F., Bogan, A.E., Bouchet, P., Clark, S., Cummings, K.S., Frest, T.J., Gargominy, O., Herbert, D.G., Hershler, R., Perez, K., Roth, B., Seddon, M., Strong, E.E. and Thompson, F.G. The global decline of nonmarine mollusks. BioScience 54(4): 321-330.

Rundell, R.J. & Cowie, R.H. Preservation of species diversity and abundances in Pacific island land snail death assemblages. Journal of Conchology 38(2): 155-170.

Rundell, R.J., Holland, B.S. and Cowie, R.H. Molecular phylogeny and biogeography of endemic Hawaiian succineid land snails (Pulmonata: Gastropoda). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 31: 246-255.

2003
Cowie, R.H. and Robinson, A.C. The decline of native Pacific island faunas: changes in status of the land snails of Samoa through the 20th century. Biological Conservation 110: 55-65.

Cowie, R.H. and Thiengo, S.C. The apple snails of the Americas (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Ampullariidae: Asolene, Felipponea, Marisa, Pomacea, Pomella): a nomenclatural and type catalog. Malacologia 45(1): 41-100.

Rundell, R.J. and Cowie, R.H. Growth and reproduction in Hawaiian succineid land snails. Journal of Molluscan Studies 69(3): 288-289.

2002
Cowie, R.H. Invertebrate invasions on Pacific islands and the replacement of unique native faunas: a synthesis of the land and freshwater snails. Biological Invasions 3(3)[2001]: 119-136.

Cowie, R.H. & Rundell, R.J. The land snails of a small tropical Pacific island, Aunu'u, American Samoa. Pacific Science 56(2): 143-147.

Cowie, R.H., Rundell, R.J., Mika, F. and Setu, P. The endangered partulid tree snail Samoana thurstoni on Olosega and the land snail diversity of the Manu'a Islands, American Samoa. American Malacological Bulletin 17(1/2): 37-43.

Holland, B.S. and Hadfield, M.G. Islands within an island: phylogeography and conservation genetics of the endangered Hawaiian tree snail Achatinella mustelina. Molecular Ecology 11(3): 365-376.

2001
Cowie, R.H. Can snails ever be effective and safe biocontrol agents? International Journal of Pest Management 47(1): 23-40.Cowie, R.H. Decline and homogenization of Pacific faunas: the land snails of American Samoa. Biological Conservation 99(2): 207-222.

Cowie, R.H. and Cook, R.P. Extinction or survival: partulid tree snails in American Samoa. Biodiversity and Conservation 10(2): 143-159.Cowie, R.H. and Evenhuis, N.L. Achatinellastrum Pfeiffer, 1854 and Achatinellidae Gulick, 1873 (Mollusca: Gastropoda): proposed conservation. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 58(3): 188-192.

Cowie, R.H., Kabat, A.R. and Evenhuis, N.L. Ampullaria canaliculata Lamarck, 1822 (currently Pomacea canaliculata; Mollusca, Gastropoda): proposed conservation of the specific name. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 58(1): 13-18.

Holland, B.S. Invasion without a bottleneck: microsatellite variation in natural and invasive populations of the brown mussel, Perna perna (L). Marine Biotechnology 3(5): 407-415.

Lach, L., Britton, D.K., Rundell, R.J. and Cowie, R.H. Food preference and reproductive plasticity in an invasive freshwater snail. Biological Invasions 2(4)[2000]: 279-288.


Book chapters

In Press
Cowie, R.H. Snails and Slugs. In: The Encyclopedia of Invasive Introduced Species (ed. D. Simberloff & M. Rejmánek). University of California Press.

Holland, B.S. & Kay, E.A. Biogeography. In: The Pacific Islands: Environment and Society. Second edition (ed. M. Rapaport). University of Hawaii Press.

2009
Holland, B.S. Island flora and fauna: snails. In: The Encyclopedia of Islands. (ed. R.G. Gillespie & D.A. Clague), p. 537-542. University of California Press.


2006
Cowie, R.H., Hayes, K.A. & Thiengo, S.C. What are apple snails? Confused taxonomy and some preliminary resolution. In: Global advances in ecology and management of golden apple snails (ed. R.C. Joshi & L.C. Sebastian), p. 3-23. Philippine Rice Research Institute, Muñoz, Nueva Ecija.

Hollingsworth, R.G & Cowie, R.H. Apple snails as disease vectors. In: Global advances in ecology and management of golden apple snails (ed. R.C. Joshi & L.C. Sebastian), p. 121-132. Philippine Rice Research Institute, Muñoz, Nueva Ecija.

Levin, P., Cowie, R.H., Taylor, J., Burnett, K., Hayes, K.A. & Ferguson, C. Apple snail invasions and the slow road to control: ecological, economic, agricultural and cultural perspectives in Hawaii. In: Global advances in ecology and management of golden apple snails (ed. R.C. Joshi & L.C. Sebastian), p. 325-335. Philippine Rice Research Institute, Muñoz, Nueva Ecija.

2005
Cowie, R.H. Disappearing land snails. In: Natural history guide to American Samoa, 2nd edition (ed. P. Craig), p. 56-57. National Park of American Samoa, Department of Marine and Wildlife Resources, American Samoa Community College, Pago Pago

Cowie, R.H. and Hayes, K.A. Invasive ampullariid snails: taxonomic confusion and some preliminary resolution based on DNA sequences. In: Proceedings - APEC symposium on the management of the golden apple snail, September 6-11, 2004 (eds. Lai, P.-Y., Chang, Y.F. and Cowie, R.H.), p. 7-16. National Pingtung University of Science and Technology, Chinese Taipei.

Cowie, R.H. The use, importance and preservation of malacological collections. In: 1 Simpósio nacional de coleções científicas, p. 67-72. Instituto Oswaldo Cruz - Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro.

2004
Hadfield, M.G., Holland, B.S. and Olival, K. Contributions of ex situ propagation and molecular genetics to the conservation of Hawaiian tree snails. In: Experimental approaches to conservation biology. (eds. Gordon, M. and Bartol, S.), p. 16-34. University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles.

2003
Cowie, R.H. and Robinson, D.G. Pathways of introduction of nonindigenous land and freshwater snails and slugs. In: Invasive species: vectors and management strategies (eds. Ruiz, G. & Carlton, J.T.), p. 93-122. Island Press, Washington, D.C.

2002
Cowie, R.H. Apple snails (Ampullariidae) as agricultural pests: their biology, impacts and management. In: Molluscs as crop pests (ed. G.M. Barker), p. 145-192. CABI Publishing, Wallingford.
2001Cowie, R.H. Mollusks. In: Hawai'i's Invasive species. A guide to invasive plants and animals in the Hawaiian Islands (eds. Staples, G.W. & Cowie, R.H.), p. 66-72. Mutual Publishing & Bishop Museum Press, Honolulu.


Books and other edited publications

2008
Héros, V., Cowie, R.H. & Bouchet, P. (eds.) Tropical deep-sea benthos 25. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle 196: 806 p.

Trewick, S.A. & Cowie, R.H. (eds.) Evolution on Pacific islands: Darwin's legacy. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B 363(1508): 3289-3465.

2005
Lai, P.-Y., Chang, Y.F. and Cowie, R.H. (eds.) Proceedings - APEC symposium on the management of the golden apple snail, September 6-11, 2004. National Pingtung University of Science and Technology, Chinese Taipei. [vi] + 153 p.

2001
Staples, G.W. and Cowie, R.H. (eds.) Hawai'i's invasive species. A guide to invasive plants and animals in the Hawaiian Islands. Mutual Publishing & Bishop Museum Press, Honolulu. xii + 116 p.


Book Reviews

2006
Cowie, R.H. Field guide to the land snails and slugs of eastern South Africa by D. Herbert & D. Kilburn. American Malacological Bulletin 21: 117-118.

2005
Cowie, R.H. Alien species and evolution by G.W. Cox. Environmental Conservation 32(1): 95-97.Cowie, R.H. A Primer of conservation genetics by R. Frankham, J.D. Ballou & D.A. Briscoe. Oryx 39(2): 227.

Cowie, R.H. The biology of terrestrial molluscs, Molluscs as crop pests, Natural enemies of terrestrial molluscs [3 books] by G.M. Barker. Newsletter of the IUCN/SSC Mollusc Specialist Group 13: 21-23.

2004
Cowie, R.H. 2004. Checklist of the land snails and slugs of California by B. Roth & P.S. Sadeghian. The Nautilus 118(1): 52-53.Holland, B.S. Ecological Genetics: Design, Analysis, and Applications by A. Lowe, S. Harris, and P. Ashton. Oryx 38(4): 466.

2003
Cowie, R.H. 2003. Terrestrial ecoregions of the Indo-Pacific-a conservation assessment by E. Wikramanayake et al. Oryx 37(1): 119-120.

Last update: 15 September 2009