the author has been intrigued by the
Pacific distribution of the American red mangrove since
first visiting the SW Pacific in 1994. this spcies is
abundant in the New World and in Samoa, Tonga, Fiji and New
Caledonia but notably absent in Eastern Polynesia and the
Indo-West Pacific. It had been generally assumed that the
distance from South America and Samoa is too great for
natural dispersal of the American mangrove to occur. It
also had been suggested by earlier research that this
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