Colonization of Nishino-shima Island by plants and arthropods 31 years after eruption (1).

From: Pacific Science | Date: July 1, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

Abstract: Although many researchers have studied colonization, the process has rarely been observed on newly emerged oceanic islands. To describe the colonization process of a remote oceanic island, I investigated the flora, vegetation, and pollinators of Nishino-shima Island 31 yr after a major eruption in 1973. Nishino-shima Island, which is 22 ha in size, is located 1,000 km south of mainland Japan. Vegetation cover had increased, especially on new lowland area, since a preliminary survey done 10 yr after the eruption, but plant species richness remained poor (only six ...

Read all of this article with a FREE trial to HighBeam Research

Related newspaper, magazine, and trade journal articles from HighBeam Research

(Including press releases, facts, information, and biographies)

A survey of floral traits, breeding systems, floral visitors, and pollination systems of the angiosperms of the Juan Fernandez Islands (Chile).
; ...extraordinary faunas and floras of oceanic islands--that is, islands located over oceanic...Indeed, anthropogenic alterations of oceanic islands have taken place on a greater scale...Mittermeier et al., 1999). The biota of the oceanic islands often has a different combination...
The vegetation of Robinson Crusoe Island (Isla Masatierra), Juan Fernandez Archipelago, Chile (1).
; ...Archipelago, as is the case with many oceanic islands, has experienced strong human disturbances...overtake native grassland. ********** OCEANIC ISLANDS ARE fragile ecosystems that are easily...Combined with these natural impacts on oceanic islands are the more recent, and often ...
ASK THE GLOBE
; ...Woburn A. The Hawaiian Islands are known to geographers as oceanic islands and are not part of any continent. An island usually is...for example, once were part of the European continent. Oceanic islands, on the other hand, usually are far from any continent and...
Control of seedling recruitment by land crabs in rain forest on a remote oceanic island.
; ...simple communities, like those seen on oceanic islands. Current perceptions of the biota on oceanic islands are not consistent with this possibility...weakly interacting species. Further, oceanic islands typically lack large mammalian herbivores...
Go island-hopping on the Internet; explore all 180,497 of them
; ...000 square feet. A USGA survey indicates there are 33,297 oceanic islands with at least eight- tenths of a square mile in surface...also is a rich source for maps and data on the planet's oceanic islands. www.globalislands.net worldatlas.com/webimage/countrys...
(book reviews)
; ...energy inputs of island geomorphology. Oceanic Islands by Patrick Nunn is a benchmark contribution...central theme of the book is that oceanic islands, in contrast with continental areas...Chapter Four. Here Nunn asserts that oceanic islands often express with clarity, if ...
Patterns of animal utilization in the Holocene of the Philippines: a comparison of faunal samples from four archeological sites.
; ...Archipelago is a series of Tropical Oceanic Islands located off the eastern edge of the...either swam or were rafted to the oceanic islands. This isolation, combined with the...probably developed after entry into the oceanic islands (Mudar 1986). The tamarao (Bubalus...
Our alternative hot spot
; Tour a South American rainforest, the Oceanic Islands and South Africa in a day at the Eden Project (01726 811911' edenproject.com) in Cornwall. Leaving behind the cold British winter...
Threat of invasive alien plants to native flora and forest vegetation of eastern Polynesia (1).
; ...about 140 tropical to subtropical oceanic islands that are among the most remote in...with its small, diverse, and isolated oceanic islands, also offers opportunities to test...Galaxy of Small, Diverse, and Remote Oceanic Islands Polynesia is one of the largest floristic...
Survey techniques for freshwater streams on oceanic islands: important design considerations for the PABITRA project (1).(The Pacific-Asia Biodiversity Transect )
; ...indigenous freshwater stream species on oceanic islands and freshwater species in continental...low-diversity environments typical of remote oceanic islands. Past research on Hawaiian streams...frequently in freshwater streams on oceanic islands of the subtropical and tropical ...