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The natural history of Enewetak Atoll: Volume 2, Biogeography and systematics

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:5364496

The two volumes of The Natural History of Enewetak Atoll summarize research done at the Mid-Pacific Research Laboratory from 1954 to 1984 under the auspices of the Department of Energy. Volume 2 of The Natural History of Enewetak Atoll provides information on the taxonomy of animals and plants known to occur at Enewetak Atoll. The collections on which the checklists in each chapter are based are housed at the Bernice P. Bishop Museum in Honolulu and the US National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. In addition to the species checklists, each chapter in Volume 2 provides a succinct summary of the biota with respect to endemism, range extensions, and other features that set the Enewetak biota apart from those one might expect to find on equivalent Indo-Pacific islands. This compendium of taxonomic information for an atoll should prove of immense value to scientists interested in biogeography and evolutionary biology of island ecosystems for years to come. Individual chapters are processed separately for the data base.

Research Organization:
Hawaii Univ., Honolulu (USA); USDOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information, Oak Ridge, TN
DOE Contract Number:
AC08-76EV00703
OSTI ID:
5364496
Report Number(s):
DOE/EV/00703-T1-Vol.2; ON: DE87006111
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English