Swains Island

Swain' s guide sees advantages in Tokelau Chopper-Stopover

While Tokelau was interested in using Swains for gas, Alex Jennings said it was about half the way to Apia. Mr Jennings said he had always been interested in deepening relations with Tokelau and the talks between the two areas had often involved aviation as well. "By the time I was contacted, the deal had already taken place, up to the helicopter acquisition, and I thought all blueprints were in place.

Emerald tunic spread over the reef of the island of Swains Island, American S?moa

It' is a normal koelobite (cavity dweller) that usually lives on the shady soils, knots and bottoms of living dead reefs as well as on debris (Stoner 1989). Though D. similis was seen on Swains Island in 2004 and 2006 (Godwin and Vargas-Ángel person obs.), dramatic decreases (~50%) in the living reef coverage between 2002 and 2004 (Brainard et al. 2008) along the north-northwestern reefs suggest that the 2008 frequency increases could be a second effect of windstorm losses from Hurricane Heta in January 2004.

D. simplifies its proliferation through Fragmentization by normal disruptions such as windstorm incidents (Stoner 1986) and is made easier by its competitiveness in connection with photo trophies, fast growing and cyclotoxicity (Sings and Rinehart 1996). On Swains Island, this tunic can quickly colonize open areas in the coral riff matrices by means of random incidents.

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