The soils of kiritimati (christmas) Island, Kiribati, Central Pacific: New information and comparison with previous studies

Pacific Science

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 397-411

  Morrison, R J ^a   Woodroffe, C D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FOOD PRODUCTION; ISLAND; POPULATION GROWTH; RETENTION; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER;

CHRISTMAS ISLAND; INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN ISLANDS; KIRIBATI; MICRONESIA; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 67651112139     PISSN: 00308870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2984/049.063.0308     Document Type: Article

References (31)

1. Blakemore, L. C, P. L. Searle, and B. K. Daly. 1981. Methods of chemical analysis of soils. N. Z. Soil Bur. Sci. Rep. 10A (Revised).
2. Chock, A., and D. C. Hamilton. 1962. Plants of Christmas Island. Atoll Res. Bull. 90:1- 7.
3. Christopherson, E. 1927. Vegetation of the Pacific equatorial islands. Bernice P. Bishop Mus. Bull. 44.
4. Deenik, J. L., and R. S. Yost. 2006. Chemical properties of atoll soils in the Marshall Islands, and constraints to crop production. Geoderma 136:666-681.
5. Falkland, A. C, and C. D. Woodroffe. 1997. Geology and hydrogeology of Tarawa and Christmas Island, Kiribati. Pages 577-610 in H. L. Vacher and T. Quinn, eds. Geology and hydrogeology of carbonate islands. Dev. Sedimentol. 54.
6. Foote, D. E., E. L. Hill, S. Nakamura, and S. Stephens. 1972. Soil survey of the islands of Kauai, Oahu, Maui, Molokai and Lanai, State of Hawaii. Soil Conservation Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, and University of Hawai'i Agricultural Experiment Station, Washington, D.C.
7. Fosberg, F. R. 1954. Soils of the northern Marshall atolls with special reference to the Jemo series. Soil Sci. 73:99-107.
8. Fosberg, F. R., and D. Carroll. 1965. Terrestrial sediments and soils of the northern Marshall Islands. Atoll Res. Bull. 113:1- 59.
9. Frew, R. D., and K. A. Hunter. 1995. Cadmium-phosphorus cycling at the subtropical convergence south of New Zealand. Mar. Chem. 51:223-237.
10. Hammond, L. L. 1969. The characterization and classification of the soils of Xmas Island. M.S. thesis, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, Honolulu.
11. Jenkin, R. N, and M. A. Foale. 1968. An investigation of the coconut-growing potential of Christmas Island. 2 vols. Land Resource Study No. 4, Land Resources Division, Directorate of Overseas Surveys, Tolworth, Surrey, United Kingdom.
12. Lee, G. W., U. Singh, and R. J. Morrison. 1982. The determination of organic carbon in South Pacific soils. South Pac. J. Nat. Sci. 4:34-42.
13. Morrison, R. J. 1990. Pacific atoll soils: Chemistry, mineralogy and classification. Atoll Res. Bull. 339:1-25.
14. -1992. Physical and chemical limitations to increased agricultural production on atoll soils. Pages 27-36 in R. C. Chase, ed. Review of agricultural development in the atolls. University of the South Pacific, Apia.
15. Morrison, R. J., and H. I. Manner. 2005. Pre- mining pattern of soils on Nauru, central Pacific. Pac. Sci. 59:523-540.
16. Morrison, R.J., and V. B. Seru. 1985. Soils of Abatao Islet, Tarawa, Kiribati. INR Environmental Studies Report No. 27, University of the South Pacific, Suva.
17. Saenger, C, M. Miller, R. H. Smittenberg, and J. P. Sachs. 2006. A physico-chemical survey of inland lakes and saline ponds: Christmas (Kiritimati) and Washington
18. (Teraina) Islands, Republic of Kiribati. Saline Sys. 2:8 doi:10.1186/1746-1448-2- 8.
19. Samadi, A., and R. J. Gilkes. 1998. Forms of phosphorus in virgin and fertilised soils of Western Australia. Austr. J. Soil Res. 36:585-601.
20. Schlanger, S. O., M. O. Garcia, B. H. Keating, J. J. Naughton, W. W. Sager, J. A. Haggerty, and J. A. Philpotts. 1984. Geology and geochronology of the Line Islands. J. Geophys. Res. 89:11261-11272.
21. Schott, G. 1933. The distribution of rain over the Pacific Ocean. Proc. Pac. Sci. Congr. 1933, 3:1887-1890.
22. Secretariat of the Pacific Commission. 2005. Web site accessed on 4 December 2007: www.spc.int/prism/Country/KI/Stats/ Census2005/Gen-pdf/GTYAB-l. pdf.
23. Seru, V. B., and R. J. Morrison. 1985. Two soil sequences from South Tarawa, Kiribati. South Pac. J. Nat. Sci. 7:132-156.
24. Soil Survey Staff. 1999. Soil taxonomy: A basic system of soil classification for making and interpreting soil surveys. 2nd ed. U.S. Dep. Agric. Agric. Handb. 436.
25. Stone, E. L., Jr. 1951. The soils of Arno Atoll. Atoll Res. Bull. 5:1-56.
26. Trichet, J., C. Defarge, J. Tribble, G. Trib- ble, and F. Sansone. 2001. Christmas Island lagoonal lakes, models for the deposition of carbonate-evaporite-organic laminated sediments. Sediment. Geol. 140:177-189.
27. Valencia, M. J. 1977. Christmas Island (Pacific Ocean): Reconnaissance geologic observations. Atoll Res. Bull. 197:1-17.
28. Wentworth, C. K. 1931. Geology of the Pacific equatorial islands. Occas. Pap. Ber- nice Pauahi Bishop Mus. 9:3-21.
29. Wester, L. 1985. Checklist of the vascular plants of the northern Line Islands. Atoll Res. Bull. 287:1-38.
30. Woodroffe, C. D., and R. F. McLean. 1998. Pleistocene morphology and Holocene emergence of Christmas (Kiritimati) Island, Pacific Ocean. Coral Reefs 17:235- 248.
31. Woodroffe, C. D., and R. J. Morrison. 2001. Reef-island accretion and soil development on Makin, Kiribati, central Pacific. Catena 44:245-261.