Restoring the Oceanic Island Ecosystem

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. The Bonin Islands

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. What's the Bonin Islands?

      • Kazuto Kawakami

      Pages 3-7

3. Impacts of Invasive Alien Species

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9

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   2. Impacts of Invasive Alien Species on Native Ecosystems on the Bonin Islands

      • Naoki Kachi

      Pages 11-14

   3. The cause of mollusk decline on the Ogasawara Islands

      • Isamu Okochi, Hiroki Sato, Takashi Ohbayashi

      Pages 15-25

   4. Rapid decline of endemic snails in the Ogasawara Islands, Western Pacific Ocean

      • Takashi Ohbayashi, Isamu Okochi, Hiroki Sato, Tsuyoshi Ono, Satoshi Chiba

      Pages 27-33

   5. Food habit of Platydemus manokwari De Beauchamp, 1962 (Tricladida: Terricola: Rhynchodemidae), known as a predatory flatworm of land snails in the Ogasawara (Bonin) Islands, Japan

      • Takashi Ohbayashi, Isamu Okochi, Hiroki SATO, Tsuyoshi Ono

      Pages 35-40

   6. High Predation Pressure by an Introduced Flatworm on Land Snails on the Oceanic Ogasawara Islands

      • Shinji Sugiura, Isamu Okochi, Hisashi Tamada

      Pages 41-44

   7. Potential impacts of the invasive flatworm Platydemus manokwari on arboreal snails

      • Shinji Sugiura, Yuichi Yamaura

      Pages 45-50

   8. Impacts of Predation by the Invasive Black Rat Rattus rattus on the Bulwer's Petrel Bulweria bulwerii in the Bonin Islands, Japan

      • Kazuto Kawakami, Kazuo Horikoshi, Hajime Suzuki, Tetsuro Sasaki

      Pages 51-55

   9. Morphological and ecological shifts in a land snail caused by the impact of an introduced predator

      • Satoshi Chiba

      Pages 57-64

   10. Bird predation by domestic cats on Hahajima Island, Bonin Islands, Japan

       • Kazuto Kawakami, Hiroyoshi Higuchi

       Pages 65-66

   11. Feral cat predation on seabirds on Hahajima, the Bonin Islands, Southern Japan

       • Kazuto Kawakami, Masaki Fujita

       Pages 67-70

   12. High population densities of an exotic lizard, Anolis carolinensisand its possible role as a pollinator in the Ogasawara Islands.

       • Okochi Isamu, Yoshimura Mayumi, Abe Tetsuto, Suzuki Hajime

       Pages 71-74

   13. Why have endemic pollinators declined on the Ogasawara Islands?

       • Tetsuto Abe, Shun'ichi Makino, Isamu Okochi

       Pages 75-83

   14. Vegetation changes between 1978, 1991 and 2003 in the Nakoudojima island that had been disturbed by feral goats

       • Kenji HATA, Jun-Ichirou SUZUKI, Naoki KACHI

       Pages 85-91

   15. Seed and seedling demography of invasive and native trees of subtropical Pacific islands

       • Yamashita Naoko, Tanaka Nobuyuki, Hoshi Yoshio, Kushima Hiromichi, Kamo Koichi

       Pages 93-102

   16. Effects of an alien shrub species, Leucaena leucocephala, on establishment of native mid-successional tree species after disturbance in the national park in the Chichijima island, a subtropical oceanic island

       • Kenji Hata, Jun-Ichirou Suzuki, Naoki Kachi

       Pages 103-110

4. Countermeasure Against Invasive Species

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 111-111

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Loss of biodiversity on tropical and subtropical oceanic islands is one of the most pressing conservation issues. These oceanic islands are well known for their unique fauna and ? ora, which evolved over long periods in isolation from external perturbation. However, the maj- ity of these islands in the Paci? c were eventually settled by Polynesians and then by Europeans; by about 200 years ago, only a few island groups remained untouched. The Bonin Islands are one of these groups. The Bonin Island group is one of the most remote in the world. The islands are located 1,000 km south of Japan off the eastern fringe of Eurasia. They were ? rst discovered by the Japanese in 1670, settled by Westerners from Hawaii in 1830, and ? nally recognized as a Japanese territory in 1862 on condition that previous settlers would be protected and allowed to remain with full rights. Because of this complicated history, the Bonins have two names.

• Biological invasion
• Conservation biology
• Ecological restoration
• Ecology
• Endemic species
• Fauna
• ecosystem
• ecosystems
• species diversity
• vegetation

From the reviews:

“This book is an important source for invasion biologists. … all of the chapters are interesting and, as a comprehensive entree into the invasion biology of a remarkable but little known archipelago, Restoring the Oceanic Island Ecosystem is invaluable.” (Daniel Simberloff, Biological Invasions, Vol. 14, 2012)

• Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, Tsukuba, Japan

  Kazuto Kawakami, Isamu Okochi

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