Encyclopedia of Islands

By P. Morris. 2011

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The significance of the sub-Antarctic Kerguelen Islands for the assessment of the vulnerability of native communities to climate change, alien insect invasions and plant viruses (2011, background): “There are very few species of fauna and flora, with many familiar taxonomic and functional groups of other latitudes being absent (Bokhorst et al. 2007; French and Smith 1985; Gillespie and Clague 2009).”
Is the island rule general? Turtles disagree (2014, background): “In Sulawesi the herbivorous tortoise species Indotestudo forstenii lives among various mammalian herbivores such as the mountain and lowland anoas (Bubalus quarlesi and Bubalus depressicornis, respectively), the north Sulawesi babirusa (Babyrousa celebensis) and others (Groves, 2001).”
Amphidromy in shrimps: a life cycle between rivers and the sea (2013, background): “…short, i.e., a few to dozens of kilometers, e.g., Puerto Rico, other Caribbean and small oceanic Indo-Pacific islands; large islands (e.g., Japan, Taiwan) and continental locations relatively close to the sea (coastal stream systems in Costa Rica, e.g., Pringle & Ramirez, 1998; Covich, 2009).”