Location
SPREP LIBRARY
Publisher
Smithsonian Institution
Publication Year:
1992
Publication Place
Washington DC
Physical Description:
20 p.
Call Number
[EL]
Relevant Countries
Cook Islands
Material Type
Language
English
Record ID:
34658
Legacy PEIN ID:
74659
General Notes
Available online
Available online
Subject Heading(s)
Plant - Geography - Cook Islands
Environment - Cook Islands
Geology - Cook Islands
Vegetation - Cook Islands
Abstract
Coral atolls are natural laboratories within which to examine ecological processes (Sachet, 1967; Lee, 1984). They are often isolated, in some cases little disturbed, and have a geologically recent history of terrestrial plant colonisation. Reef islands around the rim of most atolls are Holocene in age. They are composed of biogenic skeletal sediments and have developed since reef growth caught up with sea level which stabilized after post-glacial sea-level rise. Plant colonisation of most of these islands must have occurred over a period of no more than 6000 years.
Location
SPREP LIBRARY
Publisher
Smithsonian Institution
Publication Year:
1992
Publication Place
Washington DC
Physical Description:
20 p.
Call Number
[EL]
Relevant Countries
Cook Islands
Material Type
Language
English
Record ID:
34658
Legacy PEIN ID:
74659
General Notes
Available online
Record Created: 08-May-2008
Record Modified: 01-Mar-2021