pteridophytes (fern) 65, 240
Pterodroma(petrel) 312, 318
Pteropus(flying fox) 69, 148–9, 160–1, 173, 246
Ptilinopus(dove) 312
Puerto Rico 39, 40, 157, 216, 217, 234, 314
island theory and conservation 255–6, 260–1
puffbirds 122
pygmy hippo 313
Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax(chough) 231
Psychotria 318
Quercus(oak) 196
r-selected species 87, 110, 130
rabbits 299, 317
radiation 203
archipelagic 245
explosive 238
fluxes 268
intraisland 235
model, three-stage 231
zone 71, 87, 162, 219, 245, 247
see alsoadaptive; non–adaptive
Raiatea island 23, 318
Raillardiopsis 228
rails 182–3, 294
see alsoflightless rails
raised reef islands 24
Rakata island 132, 133, 134, 137, 138, 139, 140, 154
Rallus owstoni(rail) 303–4
random placement 87–8
Raphus cucullatus(dodo) 182, 313
Rattus(rat) 169, 278, 328, 331, 332
losses and threats to ecosystems 302, 307, 312, 313,
314, 317
ravens 300
recolonization 134–6, 144, 259–60, 288
reduced predation and parasitism hypothesis 191
reefs 22–4
regional scale, comparisons between taxa at 69–71
regionalism 52–60
Regulus(goldcrest) 275
Reinwardtoena 112
relaxation 159, 264, 269–74, 289
release programmes 331–3
Remya(plant) 234
reproduction 177–9
reproductive isolation 196
reptiles 140, 292, 293, 296, 313–14
rescue effect 102, 120, 261
reserve configuration 263–8
reserve systems 281–2, 283, 286
reserves 285, 287, 289
see alsoSingle Large Or Several Small reserves
residency 148–9
resource hypothesis 192
resource predictability (Ashmole) hypothesis 191
Réunion 68, 313
Revillagigedo island 48
Rhetinodendron 178
Rhynchophorus ferrugineus(weevil) 300
rhinos 254–5, 266
Rhodacanthis 224
Rhyncogonus(weevils) 93
Rhynochetos jubatus(kagu) 182
richness 276
–area relationships 278
–ordered incidence functions 108
Ritter Island 105, 108, 111, 130, 131
Robinsonia 240
rodents 69, 71, 74, 188, 192–4, 314
Rodrigues (Mascarenes) 68, 313, 314
Rota 317–18
Rubia fruticosa(shrub) 299
Rubiaceae 50
Rutaceae 50, 235Saccharum spontaneum(grass) 133
St Croix island 189
St Helena 22, 184, 201
anthropogenic losses and threats to ecosystems 305,
307, 316–17, 320
biodiversity ‘hotspots’ 49–50
St Kitts 212, 215, 216, 256
St Lucia 212, 298
St Maarten 216
St Paul Island 313
St Vincent 333, 340
Salvage Islands 60, 61
Samoa 40, 160–1, 210, 332
San Clemente island 156
Sandwich arc 20
Santa Barbara island 100
Santa Cruz (Galápagos islands) 219–20, 233
Santa Fe (Galápagos islands) 233
Santiago (Galápagos islands) 233, 328
Santorini (Aegean Sea) 41
São Paulo 275
São Tomé 337
SAR (species–area relationship) 271
Sardinia 189, 276
Sarona67, 201, 236
saturated/basal water zone 36
saturation curve 84
Saxicola dacotiae(chat) 231
scale 266–8
effects 93–7
see alsoscale and ecological theoryINDEX 397