Despite three months of almost continuous rains
between January and March 2013 in Tahiti, we were able to conduct several field surveys
between 900 and 1400 m elevation in dense montane cloudforest with my assistant
Maruiti TEROROTUA (Délégation à la Recherche de la Polynésie française) to find
suitable locations to set up a series of 10 x10 m permanent plots. Because of
the rough topography at that elevation range, with often...