Oceanic islands as model systems for ecological studies

By P. Vitousek. 2002

148 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Geography, Planning and Development

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In Atmospheric Science

1. Jorge M. Lobo
2. J. Cushman
3. R. Aguraiuja
4. Trisha A. Tierney
5. Janet Wilmshurst
6. Terry L. Hunt
7. M. Prebble
8. D. Drake

In Ecology

1. J. Cushman
2. P. Borges
3. C. Gaspar
4. Jorge M. Lobo
5. R. Aguraiuja
6. Trisha A. Tierney
7. P. S. Lake
8. Janet Wilmshurst

In Geography, Planning and Development

1. P. Borges
2. Jorge M. Lobo
3. J. Cushman
4. R. Aguraiuja
5. Trisha A. Tierney
6. Janet Wilmshurst
7. Terry L. Hunt
8. M. Prebble

Citations in the corpus

• Invasive rodents on islands: integrating historical and contemporary ecology (2009, background): “Modern, direct impacts of invasive rodents Islands are renowned for having highly endemic and disharmonic biotas in which species often play unexpected ecological roles (Carlquist 1974; Drake et al. 2002; Whitaker and Fernandez-Palacios 2007).”
• Detecting the initial impact of humans and introduced species on island environments in Remote Oceania using palaeoecology (2009, background): “Oceanic islands provide useful microcosms for understanding the rates and processes of species invasions given their size, isolation and unique flora and fauna (Vitousek 2002).”
• Invasional 'meltdown' on an oceanic island (2003, background): “D I S C U S S I O N A common characteristic of islands is the relative simplicity of their biotic communities, providing tractable systems for analyses of biological invasions (Vitousek 2002).”
• Temporal Changes in Native and Exotic Vegetation and Soil Characteristics following Disturbances by Feral Pigs in a California Grassland (2006, background): “This kind of cross-sectional or chronosequence comparison is used commonly in ecology to study succession (Pickett 1989; Chapin et al. 1994) and ecosystem dynamics (Vitousek 2002).”
• Invasibility and species richness of island endemic arthropods: a general model of endemic vs. exotic species (2006, background): “By their very nature, oceanic island ecosystems offer great opportunities for the study of ecological processes and have for a long time been recognized as natural laboratories (Carlquist, 1974; Williamson, 1981; Whittaker, 1998; Gillespie & Roderick, 2002; Vitousek, 2002).”
• Hawaiian endemic fern lineage Diellia (Aspleniaceae): distribution, population structure and ecology (2005, background): “9 ecosystems have developed, varies according to the age of the island (Vitousek 2002).”