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Species-Environment Patterns of Forest Vegetation on the Uplifted Species-Environment Patterns of Forest Vegetation on the Uplifted Reef Limestone of Atiu, Mangaia, Ma'uke and Miti'aro, Cook Islands Author(s): Janet Franklin and Mark Merlin Source: Journal of Vegetation Science, Vol. 3, No. 1 (Feb., 1992), pp. 3-14 Published by: Blackwell Publishing Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3235991 Accessed: 08/11/2010 22:22 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use, available at http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp. JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use provides, in part, that unless you have obtained prior permission, you may not download an entire issue of a journal or multiple copies of articles, and you may use content in the JSTOR archive only for your personal, non-commercial use. Please contact the publisher regarding any further use of this work. 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Blackwell Publishing is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Journal of Vegetation Science. http://www.jstor.org 3 Species-environment patterns of forest vegetation on the uplifted reef limestone of Atiu, Mangaia, Ma'uke and Miti'aro, Cook Islands Franklin, Janetl* & Merlin, Mark2 'Department of Geography, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA 92182, USA; 2Department of General Science, University of Hawaii, Honululu, HI 96822, USA; *Tel. 619 594 5491; Fax 619 594 4938; E-mail [email protected] Abstract. We examined woody species composition and its areas, the site of agricultural activities; however, native relationto environmentalvariables in native forestgrowing on vegetation is largely intact on the rugged makatea (Sykes four limestone islands in the southern Cook Islands: Atiu, 1976a-d) because the karst topography is unsuitable for Mangaia,Ma'uke, and Miti'aro.Relative dominance(percent most forms of cultivation. basal area)of woody species in 74 sites was sampledusing the There have been few botanical studies in the south- point-centeredquarter method, and the data were analyzed ern Cook Islands (Sykes 1980a), and most have been using clustering and ordination techniques. These tropical based on collections from a island forestshave a relativelylow diversityof native woody species Rarotonga, high (32 native and 10 introducedspecies occurredin our sites). (Cheeseman 1903; Wilder 1931; Philipson 1971; Fosberg Fourforest types were recognized:Pandanus/Guettarda litto- & Sachet 1972; Stoddart 1972; see Stoddart 1975a for ral forest (with several subtypes),Hernandia nymphaeifolia other references), and Aitutaki, an almost-atoll (Fosberg littoralforest, Barringtonialittoral forest, and makateaforest 1975; Townsend 1975; Stoddart 1975b and c). No flora (dominatedby Elaeocarpustonganus and Hernandia moeren- for the entire Cook Islands has been published. Al- houtiana). These types were related, using canonical though there have been some descriptive botanical studies to attributes (wind- correspondenceanalysis, geographical of the makatea islands in the Cook Islands (Sykes 1976a- wardness,elevation, and proximityto the coast or roads) that d, 1980b; Whistler 1988, 1990) and elsewhere in the served as surrogatesfor environmentalvariables (maritime Pacific few of the influence, soil variation, and degree of human disturbance). (Wilder 1934), quantitative analyses The eigenvalues for this direct ordinationwere much lower species assemblages or species/environment relations than for indirect ordination(0.32 vs. 0.71 for the first axis), of native forest have been carried out in the southern indicating that the measured geographical attributescould Cook Islands (Merlin 1985, 1991), or anywhere in the explain only a modest portionof the compositionalvariation. tropical Pacific (e.g. Whistler 1983; Sabath 1977; Kirkpatrick & Hassall 1985) other than Hawaii. Ecological associations on the Pacific islands have Keywords: Canonical CorrespondenceAnalysis; Detrended been altered by both Polynesian and European introduc- CorrespondenceAnalysis; Makatea; Oceania; Ordination; Poly- tions of non-native plants and animals (Olson & James nesia; Tropicalforest; Two-way indicatorspecies analysis. 1982, 1984; Kirch 1982; Merlin 1985, 1991; Steadman 1989; Dye & Steadman 1990). An assessment of the Nomenclature: Whistler(1990). extent of human disturbance is critical to conservation of the indigenous biota of the region (Whistler 1980; Sykes 1983; Dahl 1986; Pearsall in press b). For exam- Introduction ple, many species of landbirds in Polynesia are on the verge of local or complete extinction because of habitat Atiu, Mangaia, Ma'uke, and Miti'aro in the southern disturbance and destruction by humans (Steadman 1989). Cook Islands (Fig. 1) are composed of low central hills A recent study of food resources of native landbirds on of highly weathered volcanic material surrounded by Atiu, Ma'uke, and Miti'aro found that they were almost elevated coral limestone formations known locally as entirely dependent on the fruits and seeds of indigenous makatea. This arrangement of geomorphic features is forest plants (Franklin & Steadman in press). The objec- relatively rare among the Pacific islands (Wood & Hay tive definition of forest community types and ecoclines 1970; Stoddart 1975a; Stoddart, Spencer & Scoffin (sensu van der Maarel 1990) is a prerequisite to biologi- 1985). Alien plant species dominate on the volcanic cal conservation in Polynesia (Pearsall in press a; Franklin 4 Franklin, J. & Merlin, M. -; Penrhyn 10? Rakahanga Pukapuka Manihiki Nassau * . uwarrow 1: f l.. .. -: . ., IIIQ: .,.". Suwarrow I -- a 150 'l-Ij "IV. lll: s Palmerston , Aitutaki .:, Manuae Mitiaro 20? Takutea. COOK ISLANDS At ' Mauke Rarotonga Mangaia I I I o ^1 Pno0 4 r 165" 160" 155v Fig. 1. Map showing location of Atiu, Mangaia,Ma'uke, and Miti'aro in the southernCook Islands. Inset shows the location of the Cook Islandsin the west centralPacific, relativeto new Zealandand Australia.Figure reprinted from Franklin& Steadman(in press) by permissionof Blackwell Scientific Publishing. & Steadmanin press). (CCA) was used to relate the samples directly to the In the present study, our purpose is two-fold: to measured environmental variables. describe the forest species assemblages on these little- studiedmakatea formations, and to relate species com- position gradientsto environmentalvariables. In addi- Study area tion, we wish to answer the following question: given four geomorphologicallysimilar islands, can a general The southernCook Islands lie at the southernedge vegetationclassification system be defined, or do inter- of the persistenttrade wind zone of the South Pacific. island floristic differences have an overridingeffect on Winds are most frequentlyfrom the east and southeast. community composition? We addressedthese objec- Mean annualtemperature is 24 to 26 ?C, with a greater tives by applyingclassification and ordinationmethods diurnalthan annual range. Rainfall is markedlyseasonal to species composition and environmentaldata from 74 with two thirds of the rain falling between November forest sites. Compositionalvariation was relatedto en- and April. The long-term average annual rainfall is vironmentalvariables by calculatingcorrelation coeffi- between 1900 and 2050 mm for the southern Cook cients between the environmentalvariables and ordina- Islands (Thompson 1986). On Atiu, Mangaia,Ma'uke, tion axes derivedby detrendedcorrespondence analysis and Miti'aro the central hills are separatedfrom the (DCA). Finally, canonical correspondence analysis encircling makateaby an annularswampy depression. - Limestone forest vegetation of the Cook Islands - 5 Justoffshore from the makateais a narrowfringing reef. distancefrom the coast andwith leewardness(due south- These islands sharethis raisedlimestone formation with east was considered the extreme windwardposition in makatea in the TuamotuGroup (Wood & Hay 1970). this study);and, (b) soil qualitiesalso vary with distance The makateais an old fringingreef surfacethat has been from the coast. (All sites were located on coralline exposed through tectonic uplift (Wood & Hay 1970; limestone, but inland sites were located on pit and Stoddart1975a; Stoddart,Spencer & Scoffin 1985). pinnacle karst with volcanically derived soil in the fis- The dissectedcentral plateau of Atiu (19? 59' S, 158? sures, while on coastal terracesthe limestone was more 08' W) rises to an elevation of 72 m. The total land area eroded,and the soil containedmore sand.) Depth to and is 2693 ha (Anon. 1983). The makateahas a maximum salinity of the water table are probablycorrelated with elevation of about 30 m, is almost a km wide in some distance from the coast and elevation. Also, introduced places, and covers an area of about 1440 ha. The karst species tended to be located nearerto culturalfeatures surfacehas sinkholes, caves and pinnacles 1 m or more such as roads or tracks. We expected that the species high (Wood & Hay 1970). The cracksin the makateaare composition of
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