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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).

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Metadata
Title
Pacific Ocean Islands, Coastal Ecology
Author
Mark D. Merlin
Copyright Year
2005
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3880-1_238