Ogasawara Islands World Heritage Area: An Outstanding Ecological Heritage
Ogasawara Islands World Heritage Area: An Outstanding Ecological Heritage
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小笠原群岛世界遗产区：杰出的生态遗产
DOI：
10.1007/978-3-319-61896-8_6
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发表时间：
2017
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Yoshida Masahito
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作者：
Yoshida Masahito
小笠原群岛是在岛弧形成过程中由于大洋板块的持续俯冲而形成的；由于远离日本大陆和其他大陆，这些岛屿见证了独特的物种形成历史。小笠原群岛因其物种特有性强、适应性辐射强、灭绝率低而被列入联合国教科文组织世界遗产名录，但其整体地貌-景观-生态系统的独特性和价值值得作为自然遗产加以维护。如今，这些岛屿已成为日本主要的生态旅游目的地之一，但与此同时，旅游业也有可能对这些孤立的环境产生负面影响。本章解释了这一遗产的突出的普遍价值，并分析了入侵物种对当地生态系统的威胁，以及管理旅游业的挑战，以帮助保护这一极具价值的系统。
The Ogasawara Islands are created in the process of island-arc formation due to the ongoing subduction of an oceanic plate; these islands have witnessed unique speciation histories due to their remoteness from mainland Japan and any other continental landmass. The Ogasawara Islands were inscribed onto the UNESCO World Heritage List as a Natural Property due to high species endemism, adaptive radiation, and low extinction rates, but the total landform–landscape–ecosystem uniqueness and value deserves to be upheld as a natural heritage. Today, these islands have become one of the premier ecotourism destinations in Japan, but at the same time, tourism has the potential to negatively affect these isolated environments. This chapter explains the outstanding universal value of this heritage and analyzes the threat of invasive species for native ecosystems and challenges for managing tourism in a way that can help preserve this highly valuable system.