Author: D. R. Towns
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Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 348

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Author: Robert B. Allen
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3540300236
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 465

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Human colonization of New Zealand has dramatically altered the resident biota, introduced numerous alien organisms to these once remote islands, and exported local species to the world. This book reviews invasions, investigates what controls the success of invaders and studies the consequences for ecosystems both on land and offshore. The book tests current theories about the success of invaders and evaluates principles for effective management of biological invasions worldwide.

Author: Peter Vitousek
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3642789633
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 246

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Oceanic islands represent a set of systems in which biological diversity varies as a consequence of remoteness or size, not environment; they are also generally simpler than continental ecosystems. Islands therefore provide an opportunity to determine the direct effects of biological diversity on ecosystem function. The volume addresses the components of biological diversity on islands and their patterns of variation; the modern threats to the maintenance of biological diversity on islands; the consequences of island biology and its modification by humanity regarding aspects of ecosystem function; the global implications of islands for conservation; and how islands can help one to understand the processes inducing changes throughout the world.

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Languages : en
Pages : 58

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Languages : en
Pages : 164

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Author: C. R. Veitch
Publisher: IUCN
ISBN: 2831706823
Category : Biodiversity conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 428

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Includes papers and abstracts dealing with eradication of invasive species in Alaska, Australia, Baker Island, California, Christmas Island, Enderby and Rose Islands, Galapagos Islands, Hawaii, Howland Island, Japan, Jarvis Island, Laysan Island, Lord Howe Island, Mauritius, Mexico, Nauru, New Zealand, Northern Ireland, Northern Mariana Islands, Saint-Paul Island, Seychelles, West Indies.

Author: Melody Serena
Publisher: Surrey Beatty and Sons
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 280

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Based on papers presented at the three-day conference "Reintroducing Biology of Australasian Fauna" held at Healesville Sanctuary in April 1993.

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Languages : en
Pages : 92

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Author: Elaine Stratford
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317414438
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 307

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Islands and their environs – aerial, terrestrial, aquatic – may be understood as intensifiers, their particular and distinctive geographies enabling concentrated study of many kinds of challenges and opportunities. This edited collection brings together several emerging and established academics with expertise in island studies, as well as interest in geopolitics, governance, adaptive capacity, justice, equity, self-determination, environmental care and protection, and land management. Individually and together, their perspectives provide theoretically useful, empirically grounded evidence of the contributions human geographers can make to knowledge and understanding of island places and the place of islands. Nine chapters engage with the themes, issues, and ideas that characterise the borderlands between island studies and human geography and allied fields, and are contributed by authors for whom matters of place, space, environment, and scale are key, and for whom islands hold an abiding fascination. The penultimate chapter is rather more experimental – a conversation among these authors and the editor – while the last chapter offers timely reflections upon island geographies’ past and future, penned by the first named professor of island geography, Stephen Royle.

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Languages : en
Pages : 164

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