Since pandanus and bread?fruit trees tore very little fruit at the
time of the survey only sketchy exipling ves possible.
tend to choca

Both of these trees

out carpeting plants erd develop frult rether raniddy.

Thus

6o0il variation wag the main factor causing differences in wotele of activity
fur sadvies from the game erca.

AS excected Iess verintioa wis found ‘in the

Parzlianus and bread?Pruit then in csccrts but more than in arroxrost cavplea,.
Fapayas were found only near native habitations and apparently vere cultle
vated to a greater degree than th2 other majcr food plants.

This resulted

in a systen cacnrarable to the pordcnus ani oreadfruit.
2.2.2

Iiscellsnecus Pleat Samples
A suttary of the pross teta activities found im miscellencous plent

exiles is contained in Table 2.2,

The

Nata in ihis tedle ere on the tasis of

oprecss sacsles are of conerel interest because of their sinilurity

to the forage crops and cereal crains responsible for the major portion of
the worle's food supply.

Likien, Utirik end Biker canmies indicate that

Grass ray act as @ sensitive indicstor for extivity eveileble to pleat upe
take.

The ese of the grass and soil characteristics are probably resrcousible

as
n
for tie wide renge of activities observed fer sercples Pron the
swe
ae

nor
sland.

Fleant tmmk end folfacse sav les inficnie a casidsruble moveent of?
activity into the plant systes «5s was fcrecast by the presence of Ectivaty
in coconut tree sap run during the course of the crizinal stuay()),
eoconut tree syste. is especiclly

TLea

intcrestics since the total activity

represented ty the nat
@ exall frection of that which is residivrl in
eS
the rerasrach}:SOY
plant. -It is unfcrtunote that the survey wes made

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