Abstract. The ozone mixing ratio spatiotemporal variability in the pristine South Pacific Ocean is studied, for first time, using 21-year-long (O3) records from entire southern tropical and subtropical between 1994 2014. analysis considered regional O3 vertical observations ozonesondes, surface carbon monoxide (CO) flasks, three-dimensional chemistry-transport model simulations of global tropos...

Two new species of flying foxes (genus Pteropus) from the Samoan archipelago are described on the basis of modern museum specimens collected in the mid-19th century. A medium-sized species (P. allenorum, n. sp.) is introduced from the island of Upolu (Independent Samoa), based on a specimen collected in 1856 and deposited in the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. It has not been colle...