They played a crucial role in Charles Darwin’s theory of natural selection, as each Galapagos species has a distinctive beak size and shape and specialized feeding behavior. Collectively, they fill the roles of some seven different families of birds that are found on mainland South America. READ...
Guam is the southernmost and largest of the Mariana Islands in the Pacific Ocean, situated about 2,200 km south of Tokyo [...] daccess-ods.un.org 地理:关岛是太平洋马里亚纳群 岛最南 端最 大 的 岛屿 ,位 于东京以南 2 200 公里、夏威夷西南偏西 6 000 公里。 daccess-ods.un.org...
One of four volcanic islands (which are collectively known as the Pitcairn Islands) that form the last British Overseas Territory in the Pacific, 2.8-square-mile Pitcairn is best known as the hideout of the HMS Bounty mutineers. After the crew of the famous Royal Navy vessel set Captain Blig...
towns. A form of primogeniture is practiced in which an oldest brother acts as a kind of corporate head of a sibling group that works its farming parcels collectively until other opportunities draw siblings away to other ventures. Distinctions among subsistence parcels, pastureland, government-issued...
The island now has more than 30 SCUBA diving businesses, with more planned to open, and nearly the same number of SCUBA shops on the neighboring islands of Gili Meno and Gili Air collectively. Most dive shops are located on the main beachfront road on the eastern shore, where most of the...
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Kauai, Maui and Oahu islands collectively accounted for 36 % of the total forest cover and 14.7 Tg of aboveground C. Molokai, Lanai, and Kahoolawe together accounted for only 7 % of the State’s forest cover and less than 1.4 Tg C. The small northwest-most island of Niihau was not ...
Supplementary Note2). Among the invasive UPEC isolates the 11 dominant CCs were CC12, CC14, CC23, CC31, CC62, CC69, CC73, CC95, CC131, CC144, and CC405 (the corresponding sequence types (STs) are shown in Fig.1). These 11 dominant CCs accounted collectively for 82% of all inva...
configuration and position of islands on reef platforms. Modes of island change included: ocean shoreline displacement toward the lagoon; lagoon shoreline progradation; and, extension of the ends of elongate islands. Collectively these adjustments represent net lagoonward migration of islands in 65% of...