A Synoptic Environmental History Of The
... already filled. Darwin’s finches of the Galapagos Islands are the classic example. On islands that had no mammals, reptiles and birds took their place. Thus the Galapagos have giant tortoises, and New Zealand once had giant birds that functioned more or less like browsing or grazing mammals. Through ...
... already filled. Darwin’s finches of the Galapagos Islands are the classic example. On islands that had no mammals, reptiles and birds took their place. Thus the Galapagos have giant tortoises, and New Zealand once had giant birds that functioned more or less like browsing or grazing mammals. Through ...
Of Rats and Men - Annenberg Learner
... niches that elsewhere were already filled. Darwin’s finches of the Galápagos Islands are the classic example. On islands that had no mammals, reptiles and birds took their place. Thus the Galápagos have giant tortoise and New Zealand once had giant birds that functioned more or less like browsing or ...
... niches that elsewhere were already filled. Darwin’s finches of the Galápagos Islands are the classic example. On islands that had no mammals, reptiles and birds took their place. Thus the Galápagos have giant tortoise and New Zealand once had giant birds that functioned more or less like browsing or ...
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... found on most of the fifteen major islands. The Guam population of the Mariana fruit bat was federally listed as endangered in 1984 (USFWS 1984). Critical habitat was designated for this species on October 28, 2004 (USFWS 2004). In 2005, the Mariana fruit bat was listed as threatened throughout the ...
... found on most of the fifteen major islands. The Guam population of the Mariana fruit bat was federally listed as endangered in 1984 (USFWS 1984). Critical habitat was designated for this species on October 28, 2004 (USFWS 2004). In 2005, the Mariana fruit bat was listed as threatened throughout the ...
(3) Establishing a marine management plan with
... 2. Sea-Scope Marine Environmental Consultants, Dulverton, Somerset TA22 9PW, UK. 3. Zoological Society of London, Regent’s Park, London, NW1 4RY, UK. ...
... 2. Sea-Scope Marine Environmental Consultants, Dulverton, Somerset TA22 9PW, UK. 3. Zoological Society of London, Regent’s Park, London, NW1 4RY, UK. ...
The Archaeology of Oceania
... The Pacific Ocean is the largest ocean in the world. It is roughly circular with a water area of 165 million sq km and a land area of 1.3 million sq km spread among at least 25 000 islands. The Pacific straddles the equator where it is 16 640 km wide and stretches 14 720 km from the Bering Strait to ...
... The Pacific Ocean is the largest ocean in the world. It is roughly circular with a water area of 165 million sq km and a land area of 1.3 million sq km spread among at least 25 000 islands. The Pacific straddles the equator where it is 16 640 km wide and stretches 14 720 km from the Bering Strait to ...
Why Are Lionfishes (Pterois, Scorpaenidae) So Rare In Their Native
... Underwater visual survey data from various localities in the western and central Pacific were extracted from published accounts, technical and environment reports, or unpublished data sets of the authors and are representative of effort conducted over the last 30 years (Table 1). Survey methods incl ...
... Underwater visual survey data from various localities in the western and central Pacific were extracted from published accounts, technical and environment reports, or unpublished data sets of the authors and are representative of effort conducted over the last 30 years (Table 1). Survey methods incl ...
Micronesia (Federated States of)
... Ultimately, biodiversity loss must be seen as an economic loss, an opportunity lost. The value of the continuously free ecosystem services that nature provides is nearly priceless. Yet we can measure the economic value in a myriad of ways. Perhaps it is hard to judge the value of a clean air molecul ...
... Ultimately, biodiversity loss must be seen as an economic loss, an opportunity lost. The value of the continuously free ecosystem services that nature provides is nearly priceless. Yet we can measure the economic value in a myriad of ways. Perhaps it is hard to judge the value of a clean air molecul ...
Biodiversity conservation in the Gulf of the Guinea islands
... their representative biotas. Such species lists provide considerable information concerning island inhabitants and their distributions but when combined with paleontological and geological observations they help define biogeographic patterns and hypotheses about the processes responsible for them. A ...
... their representative biotas. Such species lists provide considerable information concerning island inhabitants and their distributions but when combined with paleontological and geological observations they help define biogeographic patterns and hypotheses about the processes responsible for them. A ...
Island Biodiversity
... fragile and economically vulnerable, they are home to some of the Earth’s most exclusive life forms and ecosystems. The importance of these ecosystems becomes even greater when we remember that over 600 million island inhabitants depend on these ecosystem services for food, water, shelter, medicines ...
... fragile and economically vulnerable, they are home to some of the Earth’s most exclusive life forms and ecosystems. The importance of these ecosystems becomes even greater when we remember that over 600 million island inhabitants depend on these ecosystem services for food, water, shelter, medicines ...
Micronesia
Micronesia (from Greek: μικρός, mikrós, ""small"" + Greek: νῆσος, nisos, ""island"") is a subregion of Oceania, comprising thousands of small islands in the western Pacific Ocean. It has a shared cultural history with two other island regions, Polynesia to the east and Melanesia to the south.The region has a tropical marine climate, and is part of the Oceania ecozone. There are four main archipelagos along with numerous outlying islands.Micronesia is divided politically among several sovereign countries. One of these is the Federated States of Micronesia, which is usually also called ""Micronesia"" for short and is not to be confused with the overall region. Aside from the Federated States of Micronesia, the Micronesia region encompasses four other sovereign, independent nations—Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, and Palau—as well as three U.S. territories—Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, and Wake Island.Micronesia began to be settled several millennia ago, although there are competing theories about the origin and arrival of the first settlers. The earliest known contact with Europeans occurred in 1521, when Ferdinand Magellan reached the Marianas. The coinage of the term ""Micronesia"" is usually attributed to Jules Dumont d'Urville's usage in 1832, however Domeny de Rienzi had used the term a year previously.