HISTORY OF TERRESTRIAL VASCULAR PLANTS 



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ground cover other than Pisonia seedlings and regenerated 

 branches. Nesting noddy terns fill the branches of the 

 Pisonia trees, and the forest is open and easy to walk 

 through. Coconut crabs, which are often present in 



Stage 111 and common in Stage IV, become less abundant. 

 Stage V was seen on Biken and Kidrenen (Fig. 5). 

 Portions of Japtan were between Stages IV and V. 



Fig. 5 Stage V, Pisonia forest. Only Pisonia is seen in this photograph. 



