Assessing the role of Quaternary (2.6 Ma) sea level fluctuations and island geometry changes on the biodiversity of the Oceanic Islands
| MSI11P4581 | |
| Rijsdijk, K F Hengl, T Warren, B Thébaud, C Fernandez-Palacios, J-M Triantis, K A Florens, F B V Baider, C Zinke, J Hooghiemstra, H Schilthuizen, M | |
| Assessing the role of Quaternary (2.6 Ma) sea level fluctuations and island geometry changes on the biodiversity of the Oceanic Islands | |
| Conference Program and Abstracts: 5th International Conference of the International Biogeography Society, 7-11 January 2011, Irakleio, Crete, Greece | |
| 5th International Conference of the International Biogeography Society, Irakleio, Crete, Greece, 7-11 January 2011 | |
| book chapter | |
| 2011 | |
| p. 178 | |
| Poster. Abstract only | |
| En | |
| En | |
| The abundance of species and endemics of vascular plants of the Mascarenes islands are anomalously high when compared to other volcanic archipelagos, such as the Hawaiian Islands. To evaluate why these island are so diverse we modify rules from island biogeography theory to include landscape heterogeneity and a dynamic description of island size. The current interglacialsea level is anomalously high compared to the past 1 Myr when sea level was on average 30-40 m lower and during glacial maxima when sea levels were up to 120 m lower. With such water depth | |
| oceanic islands Mascarenes Hawaii quarternary sea level island geometry biodiversity flora | |
| Mauritius Mascarenes Hawaii | |
| Flora | |
| 2011-09-14 | |
| En | |
| LIB (pdf); HERB | |
| CAT | |
| HERB |