Geologically, the Ogasawara islands are unique in that they rise ... Thirty-six percent of the plants and an astonishing 95 percent of the land snails are endemic, and the evolutionary process ...

Even plants and animals native to Japan are considered ... Chichijima and Hahajima islands in the Ogasawara island chain off Tokyo, a UNESCO World Natural Heritage site, have visitors step on ...

The Ogasawara Islands provide valuable evidence of evolutionary processes through their significant on-going ecological processes of adaptive radiation in the evolution of the land snail fauna as well ...

Four-hundred and forty-one native plant taxa have been documented on the islands whose waters support numerous species of fish, cetaceans and corals. Ogasawara Islands' ecosystems reflect a range of ...