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Vegetation-Banked Terraces on Subantarctic Macquarie
Island: a Reappraisal. Arctic, Antarctic and Alpine Research, 2013
(Ref: 15097)
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Biology and population studies of two endemic Nematocera (orchid) species on sub-Antarctic Macquarie Island Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania, 2009
(Ref: 13969)
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Two endemic orchid species, Nematoceras dienemum and N. sulcatum, are known from sub-Antarctic Macquarie Island. Several additional orchid populations on the island are reported and cleistogamy is documented in N. dienemum for the first time. The known population sizes…
Origin and evolution of the sub-Antarctic islands: the Foundation The sub-Antarctic. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania, 2007
(Ref: 13527)
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Sub-Antarctic islands have a diversity of origins in detail but most are volcanic and very young suggesting that they are short-lived and that the distribution would have been very different a few million years ago. They contrast with the common tourist brochure concept of oceanic islands.