Subject Index 



Scientific names of animals and plants and names of people are not included. A name followed by "Island" refers to an 

 island within an atoll, and atoll names are all followed by the term "Atoll." Subject matter in tables and figure captions is 

 not included. Code names of nuclear weapons tests are in capital letters followed by the word "test." Military code names of 

 islands of Enewetak Atoll such as "Alice" are followed by the Marshallesc name in parentheses. 



ABLE test, 2 

 Acanthurids, 153 

 Acroporids, 113 

 Aej Island, 31, 218 

 Aeolidiacean, 147 

 Ailinglapalap Atoll, 134, 135 

 Ailuk Island, 135 

 Air Force Weapons Laboratory, 



Albuquerque, 32, 54 

 Airline of the Marshall Islands, 9 

 Albatross, 217 

 Aldabra Atoll, 191, 194 

 Algae, 31, 43, 93, 101, 140, 143, 151 



benthic, 128 



blue-green, 128, 140, 142, 143, 148, 

 153, 164, 191 



brown, 141, 144 



communities, 93, 110, 113, 115, 116, 

 125 



endolithic, 123 



filamentous, 127 



green, 100, 116, 121 



macroscopic, 14, 153 



macro zones, 143 



symbiotic, 165, 173, 177 

 Algal bands 



biomass, 99 



cover, 153 



fragments, 169, 170, 171 



lawn, 127 



mats, 167 



plots, 127 



productivity and growth, 164 



reef flats, 143 



ridge, 12, 30, 31, 41, 43, 105, 141, 

 142, 143, 145, 148 



turf, 140, 141, 142, 143, 145, 146, 

 169 

 Alice (Bokuluo) Island, 189 

 Alinginae Atoll, 27 

 Alpha helix, 12 

 Aluminum, atmospheric, 84, 85 



American administration, 22, 25 



military forces, 20, 199 



Samoa, 185 

 Amino acids, 143 

 Ammonium 142, 162, 167 

 Amphinomids, 151 

 Amphipod, 151 

 Ananij Island, 12, 31, 100, 103, 110, 



180, 203, 209, 210 

 Anemone fishes, 130, 135 

 Anomuran, 154 

 Anthropogenic substances, 82 

 Anthropologist, 17 



Aoman Island, 107, 207, 208, 215, 218 

 Aquifer, permeable, 54 



Pleistocene, 50 

 Archaeological research, 17 

 Amo Atoll, 135, 190 

 Aroclor, 89 

 Arsenate, 168 

 Arsenite, 168 

 Arthropoda, 148 

 Asian soil dust, 84, 85, 87 

 Asilomar Conference, 14 

 Atmospheric chemistry, 71, 82 



sea salt, 83, 84, 85 



soil dust, 84 



tide, 71 

 Atoll, 189, 197 



carrying capacity, 198, 199 



ecosystems, 197, 199 



environments, 181 



formation, 39 



geology, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 43, 44, 

 45, 46, 52, 54 



morphology, 57, 69 



origin and evolution, 39 



outer slope, 91 



population, 198 



soils, 190, 191, 197 

 Australia, Eastern, 119 

 Avifauna, 215 



Bacteria, 123, 124 



BAKER test, 2 



Basalt, 187 



Beach, 31, 44 



Behavior, 7 



Behavioral ecology, 194 



Benthic environment, 184 



fauna, 144, 149 



flora, 143 



metabolism, 161 



plants, 173 

 Bench substrates, 140 

 Bijire Island, 31, 44, 207, 210 

 Biken (Rigili) Island, 30, 31, 54, 58, 126, 



187, 194, 200 

 Bikini Atoll, 1, 2, 6, 12, 17, 22, 25, 27, 

 37, 57, 58, 61, 62, 66, 68, 69, 99, 

 121, 135, 191, 198, 203, 209, 211 

 Bikini people, 21 

 Billae Island, 31 

 Bioerosion, 122, 144 

 Bioherms, 94 

 Biological communities, 30, 32 



zonation, 160 

 Biomass, 153, 160 

 Biostromes, 94 



Biota, terrestrial, 187, 189, 191 

 Biotic diversity, 187 

 Bioturbation, 127, 128, 129, 134 

 Birds, 154, 187, 191, 193, 195, 215, 

 216, 217 



golden plover, 154 



migrant, 215, 218, 219 



nesting, 31, 191, 215, 216, 217, 218 



reef heron, 203 



sea, 189, 190, 191, 197, 215, 217 



shore, 154, 219 



sooty tern, 205, 210 



terns, 190, 195, 216, 217, 218 



tropic, 216, 217 

 Bishop Museum, 16 

 Bivalves, boring, 122, 123 



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