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Image courtesy of the Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, NASA Johnson
Space Center.
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Mangareva
Mangareva is with 18 kmē the largest - and at the same time also the main island of
the Gambier Islands.
All landbird species resp. -subspecies and also many of the plant species,
that once were found only here, are extirpated today. Instead of this forests of Caribbean Pines (Pinus
caribaea), among others, have been planted on
Mangareva. |
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The shoreline of Mangareva, one can see that the mountainsides are mostly
bald, the trees on the picture are almost troughout imported species.
Photo: Angela K. Keppler
http://www.pbif.org |
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Mangareva's highest mountain, Mt. Duff is 441 m high and by far the highest point
in the whole Tuamotu archipelago.
Photo: Angela K. Keppler
http://www.pbif.org |
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Flora of Mangareva
(almost complete)
(fat = endemic, green = pictures)
Abutilon mangarevicum, Achyranthes mangarevica (ex),
Adiantum
hispidulum,
Alyxia stellata,
Asplenium gibberosum, Asplenium indusiatum,
Asplenium nidus,
Asplenium obtusatum,
Asplenium polyodon,
Barringtonia asiatica,
Blechnum orientale,
Blechnum patersonii,
Boerhavia acutifolia,
Boerhavia tetrandra,
Calophyllum inophyllum,
Canavalia sericea,
Cassytha filiformis,
Celtis
pacifica,
Cenchrus calyculatus,
Cerbera odollam,
Chrysopogon aciculatus,
Cocos nucifera,
Colubrina asiatica, Coprosma
rapensis var. mangarevica,
Cordia subcordata,
Cyclophyllum barbatum,
Cyclosorus costatus,
Cyclosorus dentatus,
Cyclosorus parasitica,
Cyperus javanicus,
Cyperus odoratus (?),
Davallia solida,
Dianella adenanthera,
Dicranopteris linearis,
Digitaria setigera,
Eugenia reinwardtiana,
Ficus prolixa,
Fimbristylis cymosa ssp. umbellatocapitata,
Fimbristylis
dichotoma,
Glochidion wilderi, Gouania mangarevica (ex),
Guettarda speciosa,
Halophila ovalis,
Heliotropium foertherianum,
Hibiscus tiliaceus,
Hypolepis tenuifolia,
Ipomoea indica,
Ipomoea littoralis,
Ipomoea macrantha,
Ipomoea pes-caprae
ssp. brasiliensis,
Jasminum didymum,
Kadua romanzoffiensis,
Lepidium bidentatum,
Lepturus repens, Lipocarpha mangarevica (ex),
Lycopodiella cernua,
Maytenus vitiensis,
Metrosideros collina,
Microsorum
commutatum,
Microsorum grossum, Milletia sp.,
Miscanthus floridulus,
Nephrolepis biserrata,
Nephrolepis hirsutula,
Ophioglossum reticulatum,
Pandanus tectorius,
Paspalum vaginatum,
Pemphis acidula,
Peperomia blanda
var. floribunda,
Pilea sancti-johannis,
Pisonia umbellifera,
Portulaca lutea,
Premna serratifolia,
Psilotum
nudum,
Psydrax odorata,
Pyrrosia serpens,
Sapindus saponaria,
Scaevola taccada,
Sesuvium portulacastrum,
Solanum
forsteri (?),
Sophora
mangarevaensis,
Streblus pendulinus,
Suriana maritima,
Taeniophyllum fasciola, Terminalia glabrata var. koariki,
Thespesia
populnea,
Thuarea involuta,
Triumfetta procumbens,
Vigna marina |
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References:
- Eric Conte; Patrick V. Kirch: One Thousand Years of Human Environmental
Transformation in the Gambier Islands (French Polynesia). In G. Clark, F.
Leach & S. O'Connor (Eds.), Islands of Inquiry: Colonisation, Seafaring
and the Archaeology of Maritime Landscapes (pp. 253-264). Canberra: ANU E
Press. 2008 |
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