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Article: The role of the soil seed bank in vegetation recovery on an oceanic island severely damaged by introduced goats.(Report)
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- Applied Vegetation Science
- Article date:
- August 1, 2008
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Introduction
Oceanic islands contain some of the most vulnerable ecosystems in the world (Brockie et al. 1988; Micol & Jouventin 1995), and one of the greatest threats to island biota is the accidental or deliberate introduction of nonnative plants and animals, especially grazing herbivores (Towns & Ballantine 1993; Micol & Jouventin 1995; Bowen & Van Vuren 1997; Mauchamp 1997; De La Luz et al. 2003). Plant species on most oceanic islands have evolved in the absence of large herbivores so that introduced species, particularly feral goats (Capra hircus) can be very destructive to these island ecosystems (Donlan et al. 2003; Campbell et al. 2004; Campbell & Donlan ...
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Article: Oceanic Islands.
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... ... 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 interpreted ...
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