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Fig. 2 a, Ikuren Island looking west. The coconut and Pisonia forest is in the central part of the Island. Scaevola 

 and Toumefortia scrub vegetation is evident in the foreground; b. Coconut trees and sprouting nuts on Ikuren 

 Island. Clumps of Leptunis grass are seen growing on the coral rubble soil; c. Lagoon beach of Ikuren Island. At 

 night the land crab Coenobita perlatm forms courtship aggregations on this beach, and it is across beaches such as 

 this that the glaucothoe of Btrgus and Coenobita emigrate from the sea to the land. [Photographs by E. S. Reese.] 



