Sex inequality appears to have been less in Tonga, Samoa and Hawai'i than in New Zealand, Tahiti, the Marquesas, Easter Island and the Cook Islands. Sex inequality mostly collapsed by the first third of the 20th century, rendering the cross-island comparisons much more homogeneous.doi:10.1080...
Establishment of F. arisanus is the most successful example of classical biological control of fruit flies in the Pacific outside of Hawaii and can be introduced if B. dorsalis spreads to other French Polynesian islands, as was the recent case when B. dorsalis spread to the Marquesas Islands....
We investigated the population history of 28 coral reef fish species, close related, from the Gambier and Marquesas Islands, from five families, with range size varying from widespread to small-range endemic. We analyzed both mitochondrial and nuclear sequence data using neutrality test and Bayesian...
birostris throughout the Society, Tuamotu and Marquesas Islands. We provide the first confirmation of sympatric distribution of both species in the Society Islands. Our results highlight strong and long-term site fidelity of M. alfredi individuals to certain aggregation sites (> 9 years for 16 ...
Small wickertraps made from plastic bottles are used to sample communities () in the rivers of Nuku-Hiva (Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia). Relations are established between sampling effort (number of traps per m2), number of crustacea caught, and surface of the pool. Catch per trap ...
Marquesas Islands, a pair of volcanic archipelagoes in French Polynesia in the central South Pacific Ocean. The islands are, for the most part, high and craggy, with jagged peaks rising in places to some 4,000 feet (1,200 metres).
Oceania, collective name for the islands scattered throughout most of the Pacific Ocean. The term, in the widest sense, embraces the entire insular region between Asia and the Americas. A more common definition excludes the Ryukyu, Kuril, and Aleutian is
Caroline Islands, archipelago in the western Pacific Ocean, the islands of which make up Palau and the Federated States of Micronesia.
Moorea is the second largest of the Îles du Vent (Windward Islands) in the Society Islands of French Polynesia, central South Pacific Ocean. The island, the remains of an ancient, half-eroded volcano, lies 12 miles (20 km) northwest of Tahiti.
Niue is an internally self-governing island state in free association with New Zealand. It is the westernmost of the Cook Islands but is administratively separate from them. The capital of Niue is Alofi.