Indigenous forests in remote islands are generally impoverished of secondary successional tree species. After canopy disturbances, the same indigenous tree species seem to resume dominance by a process known as ‘‘autosuccession’’ ...

Equatorial ocean temperatures at long. 1650 W during 1957-1971 are presented. Their correlation with Canton Island surface wind is found to be -0.57, which is not so close as might be expected from a recent paper by Hires ...

The Atlantic species of the clinid fishes of the tribe Starksiini were revised by Bohlke and Springer (1961), who synonymized the nominal genus Brannerella with Starksia, and regarded the group as monogeneric. They ...

Stratigraphy of swamps inside the inner makatea rim of Mangaia was investigated to show Holocene changes in vegetation and sea level. In the mid-Holocene five lakes existed where there are now clay-filled swamps, and ...

Aeromagnetic surveys of the Hawaiian Islands have revealed that the primary magnetic anomalies associated with the islands are dipole anomalies caused by the intrusive rocks of the volcanic centers and rift zones. ...

The pattern noted for the various families was simple, showing one major protein band and, in most cases, at least one minor one. Serum from crabs from the open coast always showed two bands, while those from the mud ...

Outbreaks of paralytic shellfish poisoning and simultaneous red tides (Pyrodinium bahamense Plate) in the Port Moresby district during 1972 are recorded. Bioassays of various bivalve shellfish during and subsequent to ...