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The easiest kinds of islands to reach have been those which were once part of a continent. Such land-bridge islands already had a fauna and flora when they became separated from the mainland.
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Gorman, M.L. (1979). Reaching and colonizing islands. In: Island Ecology. Outline Studies in Ecology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5800-5_2
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