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Original plant diversity and ecosystems of a small, remote oceanic island (Corv...
Connor, Simon E.; Lewis, Tara; van Leeuwen, Jacqueline F.N.; van der Knaap, W.O. (Pim); Schaefer, Hanno; Porch, Nicholas; Gomes, Ana I.Remote islands harbour many endemic species and unique ecosystems. They are also some of the world's most human-impacted systems. It is essential to understand how island species and ecosystems behaved prior to major anthropogenic disruption as a basis for their conservation. This research aims to reconstruct the original, pre-colonial biodiversity of a remote oceanic island to understand the scale of past exti...
The human dimension of biodiversity changes on islands
Nogué, Sandra; Santos, Ana M. C.; Birks, H. John B.; Björck, Svante; Castilla-Beltrán, Alvaro; Connor, Simon; de Boer, Erik J.; Nascimento, Lea deIslands are among the last regions on Earth settled and transformed by human activities, and they provide replicated model systems for analysis of how people affect ecological functions. By analyzing 27 representative fossil pollen sequences encompassing the past 5000 years from islands globally, we quantified the rates of vegetation compositional change before and after human arrival. After human arrival, rate...