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From islands to infectomes: host-specific viral diversity among birds across remote islands
BackgroundAccelerating biodiversity loss necessitates monitoring the potential pathogens of vulnerable species. With a third of New Zealand's...
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Conserving large mammals on small islands: A case study on one of the world’s most understudied pigs, the Togean islands babirusa
Conserving large mammals on small islands poses a great challenge, given their high resource demand within the limited space available. The...
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Littoral Ichthyofauna of Matua Island, Kuril Islands
AbstractA survey of the littoral ichthyofauna of Matua Island was carried out in 2017 as part of the 21st Kamchatka-Kuril Expedition of the Russian...
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Floristic homogenization of South Pacific islands commenced with human arrival
The increasing similarity of plant species composition among distinct areas is leading to the homogenization of ecosystems globally. Human actions...
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Introduction of Mammals to the Islands of the Northwestern Pacific
AbstractThe introduction of alien species to marine islands leads to the destabilization of the unique ecosystems characterized by a high level of...
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Agrobiodiversity in four Islands of the Galapagos Archipelago, Ecuador
The Galapagos Islands, officially annexed to the Republic of Ecuador in 1832, have been recognized as a World Heritage Site. Of the total land...
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Groundwater flow and water pum** method during drought in atoll islands: Laura Island in the Republic of the Marshall Islands
Securing water pum** is a considerable challenge in small, flat atoll islands where rivers and lakes do not develop. Excess pum** due to water...
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Reproductive Biology of Asteraceae on Oceanic Islands
Asteraceae are among the most abundant angiosperm families on oceanic islands. The reproductive biology of Asteraceae is reviewed and the attributes...
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Investigation of the Vegetation Coverage Dynamics and the Frequent Occurrence of Dominant Species on Coral Islands in the Truong Sa Islands, Vietnam
AbstractCoastline vegetation cover monitoring is critical for human survival because of plants are known as the most important dunes stabilizer....
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Genetic evidence for a single founding population of the Lakshadweep Islands
Lakshadweep is an archipelago of 36 islands located in the Southeastern Arabian Sea. In the absence of a detailed archaeological record, the human...
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What drives phylogenetic and trait clustering on islands?
ContextEnvironmental filtering is an important assembly process that structures plant communities and is commonly inferred from taxonomic, functional...
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Genomic Islands in Helicobacter Species
Horizontal gene transfer mechanisms help in the transfer of distant genes generating pathogens with different types of virulence. Genomic Islands...
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The Features of Demersal Fish Seasonal Distribution on the Pacific Shelf off the Northern Kuril Islands
Abstract —The pattern of seasonal cycles of changes in the intra-annual distribution of fish in Pacific waters off the northern Kuril Islands is...
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Coconut rhinoceros beetle in Solomon Islands: a tale of two invasions
Coconut rhinoceros beetle ( Oryctes rhinoceros ; CRB) was discovered in 2015 in a small outbreak in Honiara, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands. This was the...
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An insight into the ecology of the invasive house mouse on small Mediterranean islands
The invasive house mouse Mus musculus represents a great threat to islands. Eradicating house mouse populations is thus often necessary, entailing...
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Ecology and Evolution of Plant-Herbivore Interactions on Islands
Theory and early empirical work posed that herbivore pressure should be lower on islands than on the mainland owing to lower herbivore abundance and...
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Genomic Islands in Uropathogenic Escherichia coli
Discrete DNA segments known as genomic islands are responsible for establishing horizontally transmitted genes in a population. This region might be...
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Genetic confirmation of Tridacna noae (Röding 1798) in the Cook Islands
Giant clams are common across a broad geographic range and contribute important ecological functions within coral reef environments. However, giant...
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Parasitism of ladybirds by Hesperomyces in the Canary Islands
Between 2016 and 2022, the ladybird (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) fauna was surveyed on seven main islands of the Canary Islands archipelago. Adult...
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Description of a new species of Acanthoplesiops (Plesiopidae: Acanthoclininae) from the Kerama Islands, Ryukyu Islands, southern Japan
Acanthoplesiops hardyi sp. nov. (Plesiopidae: Acanthoclininae) is described on the basis of a single specimen (13.7 mm in standard length) collected...
