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commonly occur in parallel with those of the main- land. Only for a few sedentary bird species on the largest and most isolated ...

bats, act as important seed vectors for the introduc- tion and/or spread of a particular subset of Krakatau plant species (Shilt ...

6.3 Forms of equilibria and non-equilibria We are not dealing with a well-stabilized situation of long standing. This may accoun ...

from a failure to find the appropriate niche space rather than from a failure to disperse to the island. He therefore played dow ...

152 SCALE AND ISLAND ECOLOGICAL THEORY: TOWARDS A NEW SYNTHESIS Box 6.1 Implications of anthropogenic changes in richness of oce ...

FORMS OF EQUILIBRIA AND NON-EQUILIBRIA 153 macroecological modelling approach concerning factors like introduction effort and pr ...

154 SCALE AND ISLAND ECOLOGICAL THEORY: TOWARDS A NEW SYNTHESIS hypothesis (or EMIB) is of degree, relating to the causation of ...

increase of the species involved. This demonstrated that equilibrium for slow-growing species (i.e. those with a low intrinsic r ...

(1986), in discussing the mammalian fauna of a set of land-bridge islands, aired the notion that it may be possible to recognize ...

between 1871 and 1964 an average of 4.6 hurricanes per year was recorded, the island of Puerto Rico having a return period of ju ...

the Indian Ocean tsunami of 26 December 2004, the eruption of Montserrat, in the 1990s, and the recent increase in hurricane act ...

because immigration is very slow to distant archipelagos, and is little influenced by island size in such remote contexts, thus ...

food supply. Neither bird species invested much energy in reproduction during the ENSO event compared with subsequent years. The ...

leaves in the aftermath of the storm and also feeding on the fleshy bracts of a storm-resistant native liane. Pteropus tonganus, ...

162 SCALE AND ISLAND ECOLOGICAL THEORY: TOWARDS A NEW SYNTHESIS Box 6.2 Lomolino’s (2000) tripartite model of island biogeograph ...

FUTURE DIRECTIONS 163 Island characteristics relating to the positions indicated in the figure Island feature (a) Large, near (b ...

the role of humans, largely reflecting the approach of the research literature in the field. Yet, as clear from particular parts ...

PART III Island Evolution The Macaronesian clade of Echium(Boraginaceae) consists of 28 endemic species (two on Madeira, 23 on t ...

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Island forms of the same species [of birds] show every gradation from extremely small differences in average size to differences ...