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The botany of four small, relatively undisturbed tuff cone islands off the east coast of Upolu, Western Samoa, is examined. During a series of visits to the islands, the vegetation was studied in nine sample plots, and a checklist of the 260 species

Population survey of coconut crab (Birgus latro) in the Huvalu Forest Conservation Area, Niue island, South Pacific

Food habits of feral cats (Felis catus) were studied on two small uninhabited islands in the central Pacific Ocean. Cat stomach contents, collected on Howland Island in May 1979 and on Jarvis Island during May 1979 and June-July 1982, revealed that s

In the course of investigations conducted by the Pacific Ocean Biological Survey Program (POBSP) of the Smithsonian Institution, field workers paid visits to a large number of islands in the central Pacific Ocean, many of which are or were important

I studied the breeding cycle of the Red-tailed Tropicbird (Phaethon rubricauda) on Kure Atoll, Hawaii, between March 1964 and August 1965. Kure is a low, volcanic-coral atoll at the northwestern end of the Hawaiian Island chain, approximately 1,890 k

House cats (Felis catus) were introduced to Herekopare Island, a mammal-free island of about 28 ha near Stewart Island, in about 1925. In winter 1970, the total population of 33 cats (20 males, 13 females) — a density of 1.2 cats/ha — was killed, mai

Feral cats became established on Raoul Island some time between 1836 and 1872; the prey available to them included a great variety of nesting seabirds, few of which are present now, landbirds and kiore (Rattus exulans). Norway rats reached the island