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Journal of Integrative Medicine 2019年第4期17卷 244-249页

作者： Shipra Shah Jahangeer A.Bhat Department of Forestry College of Agriculture Fisheries and Forestry Nausori Fiji National University

The World Health Organization recently raised concerns about antimicrobial resistance and lack of novel antibiotics in the health sector. The success rate of drug discovery is higher when chemical constituents are sourced from natural products and when drug candidates are based on the indigenous knowledge of local communities. Tropical rainforests are an important source of medicinal plants for traditional healthcare systems. The pharmaceutical industry also recognizes the potential of rainforests in novel drug development. However, habitat degradation and loss of traditional knowledge are endangering the healing powers of nature. The islands of fiji have a rich cultural history of traditional medicine and a number of medicinal plants are sourced from the country's rainforest ecosystems. While deforestation and forest degradation are decimating unique rainforest biodiversity and reducing access to medicinal plants in the wild, inter-generational erosion of ethnobotanical knowledge is attributed to acculturation, rural-urban migration and their effects on the transmission of oral traditions from one generation to another. Under these conditions, plants may disappear before their therapeutic value is formally identified. This review summarizes the importance of traditional medicinal knowledge and the potential for drug discovery from the tropical rainforest ecosystems of fiji. However, there are several challenges that need to be addressed to realize the true potential of ethnopharmacology in this country.

关键词： Medicinal plants Rainforest Ethnomedicine Traditional knowledge fiji Islands Drug discovery

Recent introduction of an allodapine bee into fiji： A new model system for understanding biological invasions by pollinators

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Insect Science 2015年第4期22卷 532-540页

作者： Scott V. C. Groom Marika V. Tuiwawa Mark I. Stevens Michael P. Schwarz School of Biological Sciences Flinders University of South Australia GPO Box 2100 SA 5001 Adelaide Australia South Pacific Regional Herbarium University of the South Pacific Suva Fiji South Australian Museum GPO Box 234 SA 5000 School of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences University of South Australia Adelaide South Australia Australia

Morphology-based studies have suggested a very depauperate bee fauna for islands in the South West Pacific, and recent genetic studies since have indicated an even smaller endemic fauna with many bee species in this region resulting from human-aided dispersal. These introduced species have the potential to both disrupt native pollinator suites as well as augment crop pollination, but for most species the timings of introduction are unknown. We examined the distribution and nesting biology of the long-tongued bee Braunsapis puangensis that was first recorded from fiji in 2007. This bee has now become widespread in fiji and both its local abundance and geographical range are likely to increase dramatically. The impacts of this invasion are potentially enormous for agriculture and native ecosystems, but they also provide opportunities for understanding how social insect species adapt to new environments. We outline the major issues associated with this recent invasion and argue that a long-term monitoring study is needed.

关键词： Allodapini exotic species fiji long distance dispersal pollinatorcompetition

eterminants of financial-risk preparedness for climate change:Case of fiji

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Advances in Climate Change Research 2021年第2期12卷 263-269页

作者： Candauda Arachchige SALIYA Kandauda Arachchige Sri WICKRAMA Banking and Finance CBHTS Nasinu CampusSuva999210Fiji Department of Human Development and Family Science The University of GeorgiaAthens30602USA

There is a growing concern among central bankers that climate change poses not only serious environmental problems but also a potentialeconomic and financial crisis.This study first confirms a hypothesized theoretical framework with different dimensions of the overall pre-paredness for climate related financial risk in the fijian context,and then utilizes this framework to assess the present risk preparedness in fiji.We tested two Confirmatory Factor Analysis(CFA)models in Structural Equation Modeling(SEM)Framework to analyse the survey data.Weevaluated these models using several fit indices.The first CFA model included four correlated latent factors defined by multiple indicators(items)reflecting four hypothesized dimensions.The four latent factors were correlated significantly.The second CFA model included a second-order multi-level constructs reflecting overall preparedness along with four constituent dimensions.The four dimensional factors showed sig-nificant and substantial loadings towards overall risk preparedness suggesting that there also exists an overall higher order construct.The modelfit indices showed that this second-order CFA model has an acceptable model fit.These results confirm that the four hypothesised dimensionsepolitical leadership(Political),administrative direction(Administration),international standards(Standards)and supervisory mechanisms(Supervision)eare identifiable and distinct aspects.In addition to the four dimensions,the results suggest that overall preparedness should alsobe tackled in a multi-level integrated manner.The results also reveal that political initiatives would be futile without proper administrativedirection and strong supervisory mechanisms.This theoretical framework can also be used to assess financial systems in other developingcountries with similar socioeconomic contexts.

关键词： Climate change fiji Financial regulations Financial risk Pacific countries Political leadership

Stream turbidity responses to storm events in a pristine rainforest watershed on the Coral Coast of southern fiji

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International Journal of Sediment Research 2016年第4期31卷 279-290页

作者： Arishma R.Ram James P.Terry School of Environment The University of Auckland College of Sustainabiliry Sciences Zayed University

On the Coral Coast of Viti Levu Island in fiji,inadequate knowledge of suspended sediment delivery patterns in small pristine coastal watersheds hinders any future assessment of accelerated erosion in disturbed areas nearby.This study adopts a rainfall-stream turbidity monitoring approach in the Votua Creek,which drains a small,steep but minimally-disturbed coastal rainforest catchment.Storm rainfall characteristics,stream depth and water turbidity were continuously monitored over one complete fiji wet season from October 2009 to April 2010.The aim was to evaluate whether these parameters provide sufficient information to illustrate basic features of storm-sediment transport responses,in the case of limited stream gauging and very simple sediment rating curves.This is important because Pacific Island nations like fiji do not have the resources to initiate long-term gauging and sediment sampling programmes across numerous small catchments.A significant power function demonstrates that turbidity(T) is a suitable proxy for total suspended solids(ISS) for turbidity measurements above 5 NTU,with TSS=0.930T1.111(r= 0.98,Pfiji,rainfall parameters offer no substantial disadvantage over flow as predictors of stream sediment responses to major storms.Event-based analysis revealed that negative(anticlockwise) hysteresis is a typical flow-turbidity pattern for STR events.Negative hysteresis is produced when secondary episodes of renewed(heavy) rainfall occur after maximum intensity,in the later phase of storm events.Tropical Cyclone Mick in December 2009 generated the largest f

关键词： Coastal watersheds fiji Storm events Stream turbidity Suspended sediment Negative hysteresis

Coastal Erosion in Yasawa Islands,fiji

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Natural Science 2017年第5期9卷 136-142页

作者： Nils-Axel Morner Pamela Matlack Klein Paleogeophysics&Geodynamics StockholmSweden The Portuguese Sea Level Project AppomattoxVirginiaUSA

Coastal erosion may have many different causes. Wherever we came across erosion problems on the Yasawa Islands in fiji, they had causes other than sea level rise. We present two case studies. At one site, the beach erosion was caused by the construction of a stonewall diverting the currents in a gyre that hit the shore causing local beach erosion. At another site, extensive erosion caused removal and lateral re-deposition of huge quantities of sand. From the Google Earth images we can infer a date between 2005 and 2009 for this change in shore conditions. We suggest that the shallow-water sand was destabilized by the commercial harvesting of thousands of sea cucumbers (Holothuria scabra). These animals, by their sheer numbers and ecological behavior, were exerting a stabilizing influence on the shallow-water sandy deposits off the beach at Yageta Village. In both cases, the erosion was caused by human action. The coasts all along the Yasawa Islands are characterized by coastal stability. The presence of extensive rock-cut platforms and notches, as well as the occurrence of corals grown into “mini-atolls” are indicative of a stable sea level throughout the islands.

关键词： Coastal Erosion Currents Jetties Sea Cucumbers Stable Sea Level fiji

Chinese New Year Get-together of Overseas Chinese Held in fiji

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China & The World Cultural Exchange 2019年第2期85卷 8-8页

On February 3, China Cultural Center in fiji and the Chinese Association of fiji jointly held the "Chinese New Year Get-together of Overseas Chinese" at the City Hall of Suva, the capital city of fiji.

关键词： Chinese New Year Get-together fiji