Restoring the Oceanic Island Ecosystem: Impact and Management of Invasive Alien Species in the Bonin Islands

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
What\'s the Bonin Islands?....Pages 3-7
Front Matter....Pages 9-9
Impacts of Invasive Alien Species on Native Ecosystems on the Bonin Islands....Pages 11-14
The cause of mollusk decline on the Ogasawara Islands....Pages 15-25
Rapid decline of endemic snails in the Ogasawara Islands, Western Pacific Ocean....Pages 27-33
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....Pages 35-40
High Predation Pressure by an Introduced Flatworm on Land Snails on the Oceanic Ogasawara Islands....Pages 41-44
Potential impacts of the invasive flatworm Platydemus manokwari on arboreal snails....Pages 45-50
Impacts of Predation by the Invasive Black Rat Rattus rattus on the Bulwer\'s Petrel Bulweria bulwerii in the Bonin Islands, Japan....Pages 51-55
Morphological and ecological shifts in a land snail caused by the impact of an introduced predator....Pages 57-64
Bird predation by domestic cats on Hahajima Island, Bonin Islands, Japan....Pages 65-66
Feral cat predation on seabirds on Hahajima, the Bonin Islands, Southern Japan....Pages 67-70
High population densities of an exotic lizard, Anolis carolinensis and its possible role as a pollinator in the Ogasawara Islands.....Pages 71-74
Why have endemic pollinators declined on the Ogasawara Islands?....Pages 75-83
Vegetation changes between 1978, 1991 and 2003 in the Nakoudojima island that had been disturbed by feral goats....Pages 85-91
Seed and seedling demography of invasive and native trees of subtropical Pacific islands....Pages 93-102
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....Pages 103-110
Front Matter....Pages 111-111
Management of Invasive Alien Species in the Bonin Islands....Pages 113-116
Species Diversity and Conservation of Mandarina , an Endemic Land Snail of the Ogasawara Islands....Pages 117-125
Hot water tolerance of soil animals: utility of hot water immersion in preventing invasions of alien soil animals....Pages 127-132
Endemic Insects in the Ogasawara Islands: Negative Impacts of Alien Species and a Potential Mitigation Strategy....Pages 133-137
Front Matter....Pages 111-111
A decrease in endemic odonates in the Ogasawara Islands, Japan....Pages 139-144
Ecology and Control of the Green Anole ( Anolis carolinensis ), an Invasive Alien Species on the Ogasawara Islands....Pages 145-152
Eradication and Ecosystem Impacts of Rats in the Ogasawara Islands....Pages 153-159
Eradication of the Invasive Tree Species Bischofia javanica and Restoration of Native Forests on the Ogasawara Islands....Pages 161-171
Predicting future invasion of an invasive alien tree in a Japanese oceanic island by process-based statistical models using recent distribution maps....Pages 173-183
Beetle responses to artificial gaps in an oceanic island forest: implications for invasive tree management to conserve endemic species diversity....Pages 185-202
Front Matter....Pages 203-203
Reconstruction of the Ecosystem in the Bonin Islands....Pages 205-209
Back Matter....Pages 211-216