Part 8: Vascular plants recorded from Secretary Island

Eradication of stoats ( Mustela erminea ) from Secretary Island , New Zealand

Stoats (Mustelia erminea) are known to be good swimmers. Following their liberation into New Zealand, stoats reached many of the remote coastal islands of Fiordland after six years. Stoats probably reached Secretary Island (8140 ha) in the late 1800s. Red deer (Cervus elaphus) are the only other mammalian pest present on Secretary Island; surprisingly, rodents have never established. The signif...

Mark and Baylis: Secretary Island Vegetation

The continuing effects of red deer on the rain forest of Fiordland's Secretary Island (80 km2) over the last six years are described in relation to their initial impact and control operations. On easily accessible sites the range of affected species is increasing as the most palatable become depleted while some previously unmodified sites are now threatened. Photographic records, quantitative s...

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Anagenetic evolution in island plants

The origin of new species on oceanic islands has been discussed on many occasions (Carlquist, 1974; Grant, 1996). The most commonly described process is speciation associated with adaptive radiation (Stuessy & Ono, 1998; Schluter, 2000), in which from a single introduction several lines of speciation occur, each driven by selection within markedly different ecological zones. Morphological diver...

The distribution of the vascular plants on the North Frisian Island, Amrum

Amrum is a small barrier island on the north-west coast of Germany. The distribution of vascular plants was examined by surveying their 1km(2) grid square occupancy across the whole island. These data were used in a study on the recent vegetation change in the island. These data include 3786 observations of 450 taxa collected in two surveys in 2007 and 2008.