Because of their great diversity, insects and other invertebrates present excellent opportunities for biogeographic studies. Some of the features of insects include generality of distribution, much specialization within the context of overall versatility, many taxa possess rapid responses to environmental perturbation, some taxa are readily identifiable by non-specialists, many taxa are good in...

Social order in the states of the Pacific is characterised as much by change as continuity. In recent years, providers of overseas development assistance to the region have become increasingly concerned with the ways in which social order – a key determinant of development – is maintained. Attention has been focussed upon how people govern, and the ways in which these practices intersect with n...

The brown tree snake (Boiga irregularis), accidentally introduced on Guam shortly after World War 11, is the target of extensive efforts aimed at reducing populations and preventing their spread to other Pacific islands. Chemical attractants and repellents have been investigated, and this paper presents an overview of current knowledge. In particular, chemical cues that have strong effects in l...

This study applies the panel stationarity test developed by Carrion-i-Silvestre et al 2005. Breaking the panels: An application to GDP per capita. Econometrics Journal 8, 159-175] to examine the stationarity of energy consumption per capita for a panel of 13 Pacific Island countries over the period 1980 to 2005. This test has the advantage that it allows for multiple structural breaks at unknow...

Ladd (1934: 51, Fig. 6) gave a brief description of the former Melanesian continent and outlined on a map of the Pacific Ocean south of lat. 10° N. the probable eastern boundaries of several types of rocks, as well as the probable eastern boundary of the former Melanesian continent. His map, with some modifications, is reproduced as Figure 3 in this paper. In the original figure, one of the lin...

The Pacific Telecommunications Council is a forum and provides an opportunity for a variety of views and perspectives to be heard and to help us in educating each other. The formation of this new and small organization is an important historical process. The significance of the PTC is, in the first place, a recognition of the emergence of a specific region. Fifteen years ago no one in the U.S.A...

In constructing a survey of the architectural and urban history of traditional Asia, how would one define the edges of the region under study? This paper will argue that such a study can reasonably exclude Western Asia (also referred to as the Middle East, or the Ancient Orient), modern Siberia, much of the Indonesian Archipelago, the Philippines, Australia, and most of the Pacific Islands for ...

Cross-national studies have mushroomed in the field of demography over the past two decades. Yet there have been some surprising omissions. One of these, until recently, has been a lack of comparative work on internal migration leading to big city population changes in the world's developed countries of North America, Europe, and the Pacific Rim. The reason for this void does not lie with a lac...

1 Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre (MARE) and Institute of Marine Research (IMAR), University of the Azores, Horta, Portugal, 2 Department of Oceanography and Fisheries, University of the Azores, Horta, Portugal, 3 Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service, National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, Honolulu, HI, USA, 4 Hawaii Institute of M...

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