Threat of Invasive Alien Plants to Native Flora and Forest Vegetation of Eastern Polynesia

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Conservation of oceanic island floras: present and future global challenges. (2010, background): “Examples of invasive species profiting from natural gap formation are Pittosporum undulatum in the Caribbean (Bellingham et al., 2005), or various vines on many oceanic islands (e.g. Kueffer et al., 2004; Meyer, 2004).”
The impacts of rats on the endangered native flora of French Polynesia (Pacific Islands): drivers of plant extinction or coup de grâce species? (2009, background): “…forsteri, Rubiaceae, and Alphitonia spp., Rhamnaceae, for timber, the endemic sandalwood Santalum insulare, Santalaceae, for its fragrant wood, or the endemic tree Rauvolfia sachetiae, Apocynaceae, in the Marquesas for the medicinal use of its bark) and invasion by alien plants (Meyer 2004, 2007).”
Tree invasion in naturally treeless environments: impacts of quinine (Cinchona pubescens) trees on native vegetation in Galápagos. (2007, background): “It has naturalized in Hawai’i and Tahiti, where it is also invasive (Weber, 2003; Meyer, 2004).”
Destruction without extinction: long‐term impacts of an invasive tree species on Galápagos highland vegetation (2009, background): “It has become naturalized in Hawaii and Tahiti (Cronk & Fuller 1995) where it has also become invasive (Weber 2003; Meyer 2004).”