Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'Ogasawara Islands' has mentioned 'Species' in the following places:
| Occurrence Sentence | Text Source |
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| Shimaya Ichizaemon, the explorer at the order of the shogunate, inventoried several species of trees and birds, but after his expedition, the shogunate abandoned any plans to develop the remote islands. | WIKI |
| Other unique species include Metrosideros boninensis, a plant related to similar species growing in Fiji and New Caledonia. | WIKI |
| The islands are home to about 500 plant species, of which 43% are endemic. | WIKI |
| Elaeocarpus photiniaefolius, Pisonia umbellifera, and Pouteria obovata are other important canopy species. | WIKI |
| Rhaphiolepis integerrima is the dominant tree species, along with the fan palm Livistona boninensis, Pandanus boninensis and Ochrosia nakaiana. | WIKI |
| These forests have the highest species diversity on the islands. | WIKI |
| Distylium lepidotum and Pouteria obovata are the dominant species, growing from 0.5 to 1.5 metres (1.6 to 4.9xc2xa0ft) tall. | WIKI |
| There are two restricted-range species of birds on the islands; the Japanese woodpigeon (Columba janthina) and the Near Threatened Bonin white-eye (Apalopteron familiare), formerly known as "Bonin honeyeater". | WIKI |
| The islands are also renowned for the many species of snail that found across the islands, especially the Mandarina snails. | WIKI |
| [47][48][49][50] Anijima and Chichijima were once designated possible construction sites, but because there are numerous valuable, rare, or endangered plant species forming a unique ecosystem in the vicinity of the proposed sites, issues of nature conservation were raised. | WIKI |
| There are more than 440 species of native vascular plants with exceptionally concentrated rates of endemism as high as 70% in woody plants. | UNESCO |
| The islands are the habitat for more than 100 recorded native land snail species, over 90% of which are endemic to the islands. | UNESCO |
| The islands serve as an outstanding example of the ongoing evolutionary processes in oceanic island ecosystems, as evidenced by the high levels of endemism; speciation through adaptive radiation; evolution of marine species into terrestrial species; and their importance for the scientific study of such processes. | UNESCO |
| Criterion (ix): The property's ecosystems reflect a range of evolutionary processes illustrated through its rich assemblage of plant species from both a Southeast Asian and a Northeast Asian origin. | UNESCO |
| 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 as in their endemic plant species. | UNESCO |
| Integrity issues are mostly related to external threats, most importantly invasive alien species. | UNESCO |
| The effects of invasive alien species and historic logging have already altered many of the archipelago's habitats. | UNESCO |