Humans and their Environments
Life on a small Caribbean island
Lecture 114 Oct 2022
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1   the island

2   own climate?

3   very small island

4   very few species

5   rafting

6   raft at sea

7   big raft, small spider

8   rafted spider

9   even snakes raft

10   own raft

11   sea-dispersed

12   landfall?

13   dispersed yes, doomed yes

14   dead

15   alive, with a chance

16   happy adult coconut

17   coconut plantations, rats

18   sea beans, sea-dispersed

19   landfall

20   sea beans

21   sea-dispersed beach grasses

22   you dodo

23   Galapagos tortoise ancestor

24   Galapagos tortoise

25   Galapagos tortoise stretch

26   Galapagos tortoise food

27   Galapagos tortoise hatchling

28   Galapagos tortoise first steps

29   sweet potato tuber

30   aerial tubers

31   sweep sampling crew

32   sweep sampling, rains

33   sweep sampling, dry

34   sorting sweep sample

35   sweep sample product

36   species-sweep curves

37   changes with elevation

38   Puerto Rico sweeps

39   Providencia sweeps

40   Providencia sweeps

41   islands vs mainland

42   time?

43   small island

44   ants, ants, ants

45   forest structure

46   seedling monoculture

47   seedling monoculture

48   cactus monoculture

49   cactus monoculture

50   seed shadow

51   cactus up a tree

52   a different monoculture

53   seed shadow

54   seed shadow

55   feral trees, Erythrina

56   feral trees, Spathodea

57   not only the tropics

58   Seal Island lighthouse

59   Seal Island lighthouse view

60   white spruce understory

61   Seal Island succession

62   spider monoculture

63   spider monoculture

64   prey hell

65   prey

66   spider turnover

67   Anolis lizard

68   to be written

69   to be written

70   to be written

71   to be written

72   to be written

73   to be written
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