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Summer 1995
Vol. 48:3
This atoll near Raratonga in the Cook Islands, an
archetypal "desert" island, is populated by a variety of plants
and animals whose ancestors each arrived here accidentally over hundreds
of thousands of years.
Photograph by Robert Holmes.
Departments
Horizons
Prehistoric Paintings found in French Cave
•Blake Edgar
Habitats
Ash Meadows in the Shadow of Las Vegas
•Gordy Slack
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Features
The
Nature of Islands
Crucibles of Evolution
•Robert I. Bowman
The
Double Life of Islands
Some Confined, Others Set Free
•Angelo Taranta
Not
available online:
How the Kiwi Came to Stay
And Other Tales of Flightlessness
•Barbara Sleeper
The Seven Macaques of
Sulawesi
Radiation on an Intermittent Archipelago
•Meredith F. Small
Mountain Isles, Desert
Seas
T he Extraordinary Diversity of Arizona's Sky Islands
•James Bishop, Jr.
Strange Lights Above Thunderstorms
Red Sprites and Blue Jets
•David K. Hill
Editorial
Oases of Diversity
•Keith
K. Howell
Here at the Academy
Terry Gosliner and the Strategies of Sea Slugs
•Cynthia
Mills
Skyguide
Neptune's Dark Eye "Blinks"
•Bing F. Quock
Featured Creature
Tasmanian Devils
•Greg Morgan
Counterpoints in Science
Computers Come to the Stone Age
•Jerold
M. Lowenstein
Letter
From the Field
Deflowering of Rose Atoll
•Pepper Trail
Letters
Radon
DDT
Reviews
Noreen Parks on Reflections of Eden
Sources for Island Biology
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