Threat of Invasive Alien Plants to Native Flora and Forest Vegetation of Eastern Polynesia

Meyer, Jean‐Yves

doi:10.1353/psc.2004.0032

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“…A similar pattern, in which species from the cloud forest (limited to the summits of Raiatea, Moorea and Tahiti) are most closely related to taxa in other adjacent cloud forests rather than species farther down the mountain on the same island (Gillespie et al 2008;R. G. Gillespie 2007, unpublished data), has been shown for Polynesian plants (Meyer 2004). Likewise, taxa lower down the mountain are related to others lower down on adjacent islands.…”

Section: Biogeographic Patterns Within Archipelagossupporting

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Biogeography of the fauna of French Polynesia: diversification within and between a series of hot spot archipelagos

Gillespie

Claridge

Goodacre

2008

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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The islands of French Polynesia cover an area the size of Europe, though total land area is smaller than Rhode Island. Each hot spot archipelago (Societies, Marquesas, Australs) is chronologically arranged. With the advent of molecular techniques, relatively precise estimations of timing and source of colonization have become feasible. We compile data for the region, first examining colonization (some lineages dispersed from the west, others from the east). Within archipelagos, blackflies (Simulium) provide the best example of adaptive radiation in the Societies, though a similar radiation occurs in weevils (Rhyncogonus). Both lineages indicate that Tahiti hosts the highest diversity. The more remote Marquesas show clear examples of adaptive radiation in birds, arthropods and snails. The Austral Islands, though generally depauperate, host astonishing diversity on the single island of Rapa, while lineages on other islands are generally widespread but with large genetic distances between islands. More recent human colonization has changed the face of Polynesian biogeography. Molecular markers highlight the rapidity of Polynesian human (plus commensal) migrations and the importance of admixture from other populations during the period of prehistoric human voyages. However, recent increase in traffic has brought many new, invasive species to the region, with the future of the indigenous biota uncertain.

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Section: Biogeographic Patterns Within Archipelagossupporting

confidence: 55%

Biogeography of the fauna of French Polynesia: diversification within and between a series of hot spot archipelagos

Gillespie

Claridge

Goodacre

2008

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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“…& S. P. Darwin was encountered in four regions ( New Caledonia, Fiji, the Marquesas, Hawai'i), three species were encountered in three regions, and 16 species were encountered in two regions. There are a number of studies that suggest that a majority of the tree and liana species in the Pacific have colonized from Malesian (Malay Peninsula, Indonesia, Philippines, New Guinea) and Australia, and this appears to be true with dry forest taxa ( Wagner et al 1990, Jaffré et al 1993, Fensham 1995, Meyer 2004, Jaffré et al 2008, Keppel et al 2009). There were only three native pantropical species that occur in both the Pacific and the neotropics (Gyrocarpus americana, Dodonaea viscosa Jacq., Mucuna gigantea ( Willd.)…”

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Floristic Composition and Natural History Characteristics of Dry Forests in the Pacific

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“…According to Meyer (2004) and Florence (1997), this plant is regarded as an invasive weed, where on Mangareva (Gambier Islands, French Polynesia) it threatens a small population of the rare endemic plant Pilea sancti-johannis (Urticaceae), along with a number of other indigenous species. Located on Rapa in the earliest botanical surveys and on Pitcarin and Rapanui in recent surveys, it appears to be equally invasive, especially in lowland swamp and marsh environments and abandoned Colocasia agricultural fields.…”

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Islands of Inquiry: Colonisation, seafaring and the archaeology of maritime landscapes (TA29) : Colonisation, seafaring and the archaeology of maritime landscapes

Clark¹,

Leach²,

O’Connor³

2008

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terra australis 29Terra Australis reports the results of archaeological and related research within the south and east of Asia, though mainly Australia, New Guinea and island Melanesia -lands that remained terra australis incognita to generations of prehistorians. Its subject is the settlement of the diverse environments in this isolated quarter of the globe by peoples who have maintained their discrete and traditional ways of life into the recent recorded or remembered past and at times into the observable present.Since the beginning of the series, the basic colour on the spine and cover has distinguished the regional distribution of topics as follows: ochre for Australia, green for New Guinea, red for South-East Asia and blue for the Pacific Islands. From 2001, issues with a gold spine will include conference proceedings, edited papers and monographs which in topic or desired format do not fit easily within the original arrangements. All volumes are numbered within the same series. List of volumes in Terra AustralisVolume 1: Burrill Lake and Currarong: Coastal Sites in Southern New South Wales. R.J. Lampert (1971) Volume 2: Ol Tumbuna: Archaeological Excavations in the Eastern Central Highlands, Papua New Guinea. J.P. White (1972) Volume 3 Copyright of the text remains with the contributors/authors, 2008. This book is copyright in all countries subscribing to the Berne convention. Apart from any fair dealing for the purpose of private study, research, criticism or review, as permitted under the Copyright Act, no part may be reproduced by any process without written permission. Inquiries should be made to the publisher. ISLANDS OF INQUIRY Papers in honour of Atholl Anderson'Aye,' said the Captain, reverentially; 'it's a almighty element. There's wonders in the deep, my pretty. Think on it when the winds is roaring and the waves is rowling. Think on it when the stormy nights is so pitch dark,' said the Captain, solemnly holding up his hook, 'as you can't see your hand afore you, excepting when the wiwid lightning reweals the same; and when you drive, drive, drive through the storm and dark, as if you was a driving, head on, to the world without end,'Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son (1848:252). Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard terra australis 29 terra australis 29 PrefaceThe impetus for this volume is the pending retirement of Professor Atholl Anderson from the Department of Archaeology and Natural History in the Australian National University in June 2008, after a distinguished and brilliant career in academic archaeology. In geographic range, Atholl's field research has extended over large swathes of the Pacific Ocean, from the west coast of South America to Western Micronesia, to Island Southeast Asia, and west to the Indian Ocean. Few prehistorians of Oceania have seen as much of their subject matter at such close quarters. The variety and span of his study areas are matched, and quite possibly exceeded, by the prodigious variety of subjects he has tackled in numerous scientific publications, which are ...

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Threat of Invasive Alien Plants to Native Flora and Forest Vegetation of Eastern Polynesia

Abstract: Eastern Polynesia, a phytogeographical subregion of Polynesia in

Cited by 103 publications

References 32 publications

Biogeography of the fauna of French Polynesia: diversification within and between a series of hot spot archipelagos

Biogeography of the fauna of French Polynesia: diversification within and between a series of hot spot archipelagos

Floristic Composition and Natural History Characteristics of Dry Forests in the Pacific

Islands of Inquiry: Colonisation, seafaring and the archaeology of maritime landscapes (TA29) : Colonisation, seafaring and the archaeology of maritime landscapes

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