g£3 RUBBLE 



^B KERB MAT 



| | TOURNEFORTIA 



\TT^ COCOS 



P 7J DYING COCOS IPOMOEA 



| * «J SURIANA 



1"»^ PANDANUS 



~Z^~ BEACHROCK 



Fig. 50. South Island: vegetation and physiography. Note the accepted landing route across its leeward reef flats. 



E • 



OuUr B«iCh Scrub X * 



r 



Boerhavirt repens 

 Cocos nucltera 

 He 1 1 ol ' opium anomalum 

 Ipomoea macrantha 

 Lapor tea ruder alls 



Lepturus repens 

 Monnda citrtfolia 



Phymalosorus scolopendria 



Pisoma grandls 



portulaca lutea 



Sur lana man t ima 



Tournefortia argentea 



LAGOON 

 ( lee ) 



240 360 



TRANSECT WIDTH (m) 



720 



OCEAN 

 (pari windiwcrd ) 



Fig. 5 1 . South Island: distribution and abundance of plant species along Tr. 2, which runs at an angle of 60° from the lagoon to the south shore through the western 

 center of the islet. Data includes floristic composition, relative abundance of plant species, degree of species overlap and canopy heights. Vertical height 

 is exaggerated. Horizontal scale is half that of the profiles from smaller motus. 



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