Pacific island forests: successionally impoverished and now threatened to be overgrown by aliens?
- Author:
-
Mueller-Dombois, Dieter
- Title:
- Pacific island forests: successionally impoverished and now threatened to be overgrown by aliens?
- Periodical:
- Pacific Science
- Year:
- 2008
- Volume:
- 62
- Pages:
- 303-308
- Subject:
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Alien invasive species
Ecology
- Summary:
- In most islands, the isolation barrier has been broken by the anthropogenic introduction of alien species -- some of which have become invasive. As a result, a new natural and unstoppable dynamic has been unleashed by humans among the Pacific island forests through the introduction of these invasive species in spite of successful control efforts. In this paper, the author attempts to evaluate alien plant invasions in remote islands with regard to the concepts of ecological succession.
- Label:
- Ecology
- URL:
- http://cletus.uhh.hawaii.edu:2074/10.2984/1534-6188(2008)62%5B303:PIFSIA%5D2.0.CO;2
- Date:
- July 2008
- Collection:
- Periodicals