Canary islands: unsustainable development 325–8
Galápagos islands: threatened evolutionary showcase
328–30
Maldives: climatic change 323–4
Nauru: destruction of the island 324–5
Okino-Tori-Shima: strategic economic importance 324
sustainable development 337–40
translocation and release programmes 331–3
Conservation International 47–8, 333
hotspots programme 328
continental fragments 10–11, 14, 57–8, 203
continental islands 14, 47, 57
continental shelf islands 11, 12
Convolvulus62, 235
Cook Islands 32, 40, 67, 69, 332
Coprosma177, 178
coral growth 30
coral islands 32
core-satellite 261
core-sink model variant 261–2
corridors 278–9, 281, 284, 289
Corsica 174–5
Corvus corax(raven) 327
Costa Rica 287
counter-adaptation 212, 239
Crambe62, 234
Crassulaceae 66, 228, 325
Crete 230
crickets 176, 225–8, 234
Crocodylus niloticus(crocodile) 187
Crotophaga ani(ani) 213
cryptic island endemics 71–3
cryptoturnover 100–1
Cuba 234, 337
Culex quinquefasciatus(mosquito) 301
culling programmes 330
Curaçao island 314
Curieuse 332–3
Cyanea 236
Cyanocitta cristata(jay) 278
Cyclades archipelago (Aegean Sea) 257
Cyclodina alani(skink) 181
cyclonic storms 246
Cyclura(iguanine) 314
Cylindroiulus 227
Cyperraceae 50
Cyprus 72, 189
Cyrptoblepharus(lizard) 237
Cyrtandra(shrub) 66, 74, 133, 179, 198, 225, 318
Dactylopius coccus(insect) 327
Daphne Major island 160, 179
Darwin island (Galápagos islands) 220
Darwin’s finches seeGalápagos islands finches
deer 188, 313, 317
defence hypothesis 192
Dendroica petechia(yellow warbler) 214
density compensation 174–6, 179, 191, 193
density overcompensation 174, 175
density stasis 193
Desventuradas, Las islands 48
determinism 142
Dicaeum quadricolor(flowerpecker) 302
dicots 241
differentiation 148
dimorphy 177
dioecy 177–8
Diospyros egrettarum(ebony) 181
diplochores 136
diplopods 227
disease 298, 299, 300–2, 322
disharmony 50–2, 73
dispersal:
ability 240
back–dispersal 235
community assembly and dynamics 115
differences 114
distances/range 248, 289
filters 119
limits 50–2
networks 179–81, 299–300, 322
powers, loss of 182–4
scale and ecological theory 162
-structured model of recolonization 134–6
sweepstake 52, 73
traits 241
distance effect 83–4, 127, 262
and species numbers 91–2
distributional context and speciation 199–201
disturbance:
hypothesis 88
see alsonatural disturbance
diversity begets diversity model 244
dodo 173, 182, 306, 313
dogs 298–9, 302, 307, 313, 314, 328, 330
Dolichoiulus 227
Dominica 217
donkeys 317, 328
double invasions 203, 245
doves 118
Dracaena(tree) 62, 291
Drepanidinae 222, 235
Drepanis pacifica(mamo) 295
Drosophila(fruit fly) 67, 74, 168–9, 201, 203, 254–5
emergent models of island evolution 225–6, 228, 234,
239, 240
drosophilids 217, 225–8
Dubautia66, 228, 236INDEX 387