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 ...

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 ...

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 ...