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St. Helena, Madeira, and New Zealand are examples of oceanic islands.
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Humans have introduced many species onto remote oceanic islands.
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These are oceanic islands, built up from volcanic materials.
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Although terrestrial mammals do not occur on oceanic islands, aerial mammals do occur on almost every island.
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Although in oceanic islands the species are few in number, the proportion of endemic kinds (i.e.
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On the inhabitants of oceanic islands.
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But seals would not find on oceanic islands the conditions favourable to their gradual reconversion into a terrestrial form.
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In fact, it's been argued that being big was a necessary pre-adaption for the successful colonization of remote oceanic islands.
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Why do so many oceanic islands lack frogs, toads, and newts that seem so admirably adapted for such an environment?
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The species of all kinds which inhabit oceanic islands are few in number compared with those on equal continental areas: Alph.
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The presence of species with worldwide distribution and of agricultural relevance is strong in the Chilean oceanic islands, particularly in Rapa Nui.
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Such places range in size from small oceanic islands to North America, which has many more plant species since the arrival of Europeans.
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The nature and relative proportions of the inhabitants of oceanic islands are likewise opposed to the belief of their former continuity of continents.
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The straight-haired Mongols include those of Tibet, Indo-China, China, and Formosa, those of many oceanic islands, and of the north from Japan to Lapland.
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The house mouse (Mus musculus) is a human commensal and has consequently been transported to oceanic islands around the globe as an accidental stowaway.
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Uniformitarianism provides the key to his first scientific book (Darwin, 1842) on the formation of coral atolls by gradual subsidence of oceanic islands, long continued.