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some of the biggest tourist developments severely impacting on the most arid areas, previously only sparsely populated. Contempo ...

report of goats in the habitat of the most intact race of Galápagos tortoise. By 1997, the goat population was close to 100 000, ...

330 ISLAND REMEDIES: THE CONSERVATION OF ISLAND ECOSYSTEMS Box 12.2 The arrival and eventual removal of ecosystem transformers: ...

Galápagos, the Canaries, and the Bahamas. Similarly, many other problems, such as feral ani- mals, habitat loss, and burning, ar ...

by feral cats. All known kakapo (i.e. the entire species) were therefore transferred to three preda- tor-free island refuges, wh ...

differences and differences in predation and poaching are involved. This demonstrates that the success of translocation is not s ...

334 ISLAND REMEDIES: THE CONSERVATION OF ISLAND ECOSYSTEMS Table 12.2Designations within the Canarian Protected Areas system (so ...

2000 protected areas were already covered by the Canarian ENP network. The additional land desig- nated through this network is ...

of non-endemic species with a high emblematic value or global conservation, like whales, dolphins, or birds. Recently, a governm ...

conservationists have made management assess- ments. The remedies identified are often the same: control exotics, halt or revers ...

immense disruption to marine and terrestrial habi- tats, both proximal and distal to the tropics where the unusually high water ...

sustainable development planning for small islands are listed in Table 12.4. In many ways the ecological management goals are th ...

secondly, to discontinue the export (legal or illegal) of live parrots; and thirdly, to involve local people as much as possible ...

strategy required for effective conservation of such island systems must be tailored to meet the particular features of island e ...

actinomorphic Having flowers with radial symmetry. adaptive radiation The evolutionary process by which an ancestral species giv ...

biosphere reserve Areas of terrestrial or coastal ecosystems that are internationally recognized within the framework of the UNE ...

density compensation Higher than normal densities of a species on an island: typically explained as an outcome of the lower over ...

entomophily Pollination by insects. equilibrium A condition of balance between opposing forces, such as between rates of immigra ...

impoverishment The characteristic by which islands have fewer species per unit area than the mainland in comparable ecosystems, ...

minimum viable area (MVA) The area needed for maintaining the minimum viable population of a species. minimum viable metapopulat ...