The palm deforestation of the Easter Island, attributed to the human impact could have started earlier, during the 4.2 0.8 cal kyr BP sedimentary gap.
The first recorded landing on the islands is attributed to English captain John Strong, who, en route to Peru's and Chile's littoral in 1690, discovered the Falkland Sound and noted the islands' water and game.
The finding of higher variation in continental islands has been attributed to multiple continent-to-island introductions, genetic bottlenecks in the continent, or island-to-continent colonization [13], [16], [17].
Severe floods in Papua New Guinea's Carteret islands are often attributed to shifting sea levels, generating fears that they may produce the world's first climate-change refugees.
Factors affecting phenotypic evolution on islands have been attributed to both founder effects and exposure to fundamentally different selection regimes, which often include ecological release from competition and predation as well as severe resource limitation [3], [4], [5].
Variations in the conjugation frequencies of the more distant genomic islands could be attributed to the slight differences in the gene content of their T4SS modules; however, this explanation would not suffice for the closely related islands with the same set of 24 GI T4SS genes like ICE Hin1056 and ICE HpaT3T1 (Fig. 3).
The capture of Louisbourg, a fortress on the island, was largely attributed to Wolfe's daring and determination.
In a previous study in the Galápagos (Traveset et al. 2013), a decrease in interaction evenness was observed along a gradient of invasion intensity at the island scale, being attributed to shifts in the proportion of strong and weak interactions in the network.
This tensile stress was attributed to islands coalescence.
The best documented examples include avifaunal extinctions on islands that have been attributed to increases in predation via mammal [78] and brown tree snake invasion [79] [80].
Their unusually large size has been attributed to island gigantism, since no other carnivorous animals fill the niche on the islands where they live.
