2005 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Pacific Ocean Islands, Coastal Ecology
Author : Mark D. Merlin
Published in: Encyclopedia of Coastal Science
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
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The ecology of the tropics is an incredibly complex subject, probably far too complex to be grasped in its entirety by the human mind. Yet it is of the greatest urgency that it should be sufficiently understood so as to help man utilize tropical lands without utterly destroying the region eventually as a human habitat.
…Marie-Helen Sachet, 1967, Botanist, Smithsonian Institute (cf. National Biodiversity Team of the Republic of the Marshall Islands, 2000, inside front cover).