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The Caribbean bioregion's distinct fauna, flora and mycobiota was shaped by long periods of physical separation from the neighboring continents, allowing animals, fungi and plants to evolve in isolation. Other animals, fungi and plants arrived via long-distance oceanic dispersal or island hopping from North America and South America.
The Mariana Islands form an archipelago in the northwest of the Micronesian region. In 2012, Craig M. Costion and David H. Lorence compiled a list of Micronesian endemic plants, and assessed that the Mariana Islands had 22 endemic plant species (16 species in the southern Mariana Islands, of which 11 were isolated to Guam, and 5 species in the ...
The Japanese archipelago consists of four major islands—Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyushu—and thousands of smaller islands, covering around 380,000 square kilometres (150,000 sq mi). With a population of more than 125 million as of 2020, Japan is the 11th most populous country .
This is a list of power stations in Prince Edward Island, Canada. Prince Edward Island has eight power stations, and is the only Canadian province without an active hydroelectric power station (the last, Knox's Dam [ which? ] ended commercial operation in the 1950s [1] ).
Sclerotheca raiateensis. Sideroxylon nadeaudii. Categories: Flora of the Society Islands. Endemic flora of French Polynesia.
Algae. In 1985, 116 species of marine algae were recorded at the Antipodes Islands. At least three species of freshwater algae have been recorded, but these have not yet been positively identified: a species of Chlorella, at least one species of Chlamydomonas, and a Xanthophyceae, perhaps Tetrakenton or Goniochloris .
The present-day vegetation of the island is mostly of naturalized non-native plants. Approximately 260 species of non-native plants are now naturalized on the island. Over half the island is covered by wasteland of bare soil and sparse scrub of mostly exotic plants. Other areas are covered with pasture and abandoned flax plantations.
The Bismarck Archipelago and other islands directly east of New Guinea. Bougainville and Buka Island. The Solomon Islands. Eastern Melanesia. The Santa Cruz Islands. Vanuatu. New Caledonia. Fiji. Subtropical islands in the Australia/New Zealand region.