Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'Heard and McDonald Islands' has mentioned 'Subantarctic' in the following places:
| Occurrence Sentence | Text Source |
|---|---|
| The wetlands provide important breeding and feeding habitat for a number of Antarctic and subantarctic wetland animals. | WIKI |
| The islands are part of the Southern Indian Ocean Islands tundra ecoregion that includes several subantarctic islands. | WIKI |
| The main environmental determinants of vegetation on subantarctic islands are wind exposure, water availability, parent soil composition, salt spray exposure, nutrient availability, disturbance by trampling (from seabirds and seals) and, possibly, altitude. | WIKI |
| The vascular flora comprises the smallest number of species of any major subantarctic island group, reflecting its isolation, small ice-free area and severe climate. | WIKI |
| None of the vascular species are endemic, although Pringlea antiscorbutica, Colobanthus kerguelensis, and Poa kerguelensis occur only on subantarctic islands in the southern Indian Ocean. | WIKI |
| The plants are typically subantarctic, but with a higher abundance of the cushion-forming Azorella selago than other subantarctic islands. | WIKI |
| Heard Island is the largest subantarctic island with no confirmed human-introduced plants. | WIKI |
| Subantarctic vegetation is minimal and includes small types of shrubbery, including mosses and liverworts. | WIKI |
| One of the most rapidly changing physical settings in the subantarctic has been produced on Heard Island by a combination of rapid glacial recession and climate warming. | WIKI |
| Other species and vegetation communities found on subantarctic islands north of the Antarctic Convergence now absent from the Heard Island flora may colonise the island if climate change produces more favourable conditions. | WIKI |
| The potential for introducing plant species (including invasive species not previously found on subantarctic islands) by both natural and human-induced means is high. | WIKI |
| The species has a circumantarctic distribution and occurs on many subantarctic islands. | WIKI |
| Other seabirds recorded as breeding at Heard Island include three species of albatross (wandering, black-browed and light-mantled albatrosses, southern giant petrels, Cape petrels, four species of burrowing petrels Antarctic and Fulmar prions, common and South Georgian diving-petrels), Wilson's storm-petrels, kelp gulls, subantarctic skuas, Antarctic terns and the Heard shag. | WIKI |
| The fauna of the freshwater pools, lakes, streams and mires found in the coastal areas of Heard Island are broadly similar to those on other subantarctic islands of the southern Indian Ocean. | WIKI |
| As with the other shore biota, the marine macro-invertebrate fauna of Heard Island is similar in composition and local distribution to other subantarctic islands, although relatively little is known about the Heard Island communities compared with the well-studied fauna of some other islands in the subantarctic region, such as Macquarie and Kerguelen. | WIKI |
| Heard Island is a heavily glaciated, subantarctic volcanic island located in the Southern Ocean, roughly 4000 kilometers southwest of Australia. | WIKI |