Restoring the Oceanic Island Ecosystem

• The Bonin Islands.- What's the Bonin Islands?.- Impacts of Invasive Alien Species.- Impacts of Invasive Alien Species on Native Ecosystems on the Bonin Islands.- The cause of mollusk decline on the Ogasawara Islands.- Rapid decline of endemic snails in the Ogasawara Islands, Western Pacific Ocean.- 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.- High Predation Pressure by an Introduced Flatworm on Land Snails on the Oceanic Ogasawara Islands.- Potential impacts of the invasive flatworm Platydemus manokwari on arboreal snails.- Impacts of Predation by the Invasive Black Rat Rattus rattus on the Bulwer's Petrel Bulweria bulwerii in the Bonin Islands, Japan.- Morphological and ecological shifts in a land snail caused by the impact of an introduced predator.- Bird predation by domestic cats on Hahajima Island, Bonin Islands, Japan.- Feral cat predation on seabirds on Hahajima, the Bonin Islands, Southern Japan.- High population densities of an exotic lizard, Anolis carolinensisand its possible role as a pollinator in the Ogasawara Islands..- Why have endemic pollinators declined on the Ogasawara Islands?.- Vegetation changes between 1978, 1991 and 2003 in the Nakoudojima island that had been disturbed by feral goats.- Seed and seedling demography of invasive and native trees of subtropical Pacific islands.- 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.- Countermeasure Against Invasive Species.- Management of Invasive Alien Species in the Bonin Islands.- Species Diversity and Conservation of Mandarina, an Endemic Land Snail of the Ogasawara Islands.- Hot water tolerance of soil animals: utility of hot water immersion in preventing invasions of alien soil animals.- Endemic Insects in the Ogasawara Islands: Negative Impacts of Alien Species and a Potential Mitigation Strategy.- A decrease in endemic odonates in the Ogasawara Islands, Japan.- Ecology and Control of the Green Anole (Anolis carolinensis), an Invasive Alien Species on the Ogasawara Islands.- Eradication and Ecosystem Impacts of Rats in the Ogasawara Islands.- Eradication of the Invasive Tree Species Bischofia javanica and Restoration of Native Forests on the Ogasawara Islands.- Predicting future invasion of an invasive alien tree in a Japanese oceanic island by process-based statistical models using recent distribution maps.- Beetle responses to artificial gaps in an oceanic island forest: implications for invasive tree management to conserve endemic species diversity.- Implications for Island Ecosystem Management.- Reconstruction of the Ecosystem in the Bonin Islands.

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)