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CHRIS J. FEARE & PAUL F. DOHERTY, JR. 2004. Survival estimates of adult Sooty Terns Sterna fuscata from Bird Island, Seychelles. Ibis (2004), 146, 475–480
FEARECHRIS, J. 2002. Influence of date and body mass at fledging on long-term Survival of Sooty terns Sterna fuscata. Marine Ornithology 30: 46–47 (2002)
Dowling et al. 2001. No effects of a feather mite on body condition, survivorship, or grooming behavior in the Seychelles warbler, Acrocephalus sechellensis. Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol (2001) 50:257–262 DOI 10.1007/s002650100360
Frazier J. 1971. Observations on Sea turtles at Aldabra Atoll. Philosophical Transactions of The Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences. Vol 260, No. 836
Goodman et al. 2007. The taxonomic status of Chaerephon pumilus from the western
Seychelles: resurrection of the name C. pusillus for an endemic species. Acta Chiropterologica, 9(2): 391–399, 2007 PL ISSN 1508-1109 © Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS
Graham et al. 2007. Lag Effects in the Impacts of Mass Coral Bleaching on Coral Reef Fish, Fisheries, and Ecosystems. Conservation Biology Volume, DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2007.00754.x
Richardson et al. 2007. Grandparent helpers: the adaptive Significance of older, post dominant helpers in the Seychelles warbler.  The Society for the Study of Evolution.
Evolution 2007
Frazier J. 2006. Book Review: Giant Tortoises of the Indian Ocean. The Genus Dipsochelys
Inhabiting the Seychelles Islands and the Extinct Giants of Madagascar and the Mascarenes, by Justin Gerlach. Herpetological Review, 2006, 37(3), 368–373. © 2006 by Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles
Brouwer et al. 2007. Heterozygosity–fitness correlations in a bottlenecked island species: a case study on the Seychelles warbler. Molecular Ecology (2007). doi: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2007.03370.x
Richardson et al. 2004. Inbreeding in the Seychelles warbler: environment-dependent maternal effects. Evolution, 58(9), 2004, pp. 2037–2048
Schumacher, E., Küffer, C., Tobler, M., Gmür, V., Edwards, P.J., Dietz, H.  (2008)  Influence of Drought and Shade on Seedling Growth of Native and Invasive Trees in the Seychelles  Biotropica 40, 543-549
Küffer, C.  (2010)  Reduced risk for positive soil-feedback on seedling regeneration by invasive trees on a very nutrient-poor soil in Seychelles.  Biological Invasions 12, 97-102. a
KOMDEUR et al. 2007. Explicit experimental evidence for the effectiveness of proximity as mate-guarding behaviour in reducing extra-pair fertilization in the Seychelles warbler. Molecular Ecology (2007) 16, 3679–3688
Küffer, C., Klingler, G., Zirfass, K., Schumacher, E., Edwards, P.J., Güsewell, S.  (2008)  Invasive trees show only weak potential to impact nutrient dynamics in phosphorus-poor tropical forests in the Seychelles.  Functional Ecology, 22, 359–366.
Schumacher, E., Küffer, C., Edwards, P.J., Dietz, H.  (2009)  Influence of light and nutrient conditions on seedling growth of native and invasive trees in the Seychelles  Biological Invasions 11, 1941-1954.
Caujapé-Castells, J , Tye, A., Crawford, D. J., Santos-Guerra, A., Sakai, A., Beaver, K., Lobin, W., Florens, F. B. V., Moura, M., Jardim, R., Küffer, C.  (2010)  Conservation of oceanic island floras: present and future global challenges.  Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics in press. doi:10.1016/j.ppees.2009.10.001
Küffer, C., Daehler, C, Torres-Santana, C W, Lavergne, C, Meyer, J-Y, Otto, R, Silva, L  (2010)  A global comparison of plant invasions on oceanic islands.  Perspectives in Plant Ecology Evolution and Systematics, in press. doi: 10.1016/j.ppees.2009.06.002.
Brook, S., et al., Can land crabs be used as a rapid ecosystem evaluation tool? A test using distribution..., Acta Oecolo. (2009), doi:10.1016/j.actao.2009.07.001
McClanahan et al. 2007. Western Indian Ocean coral communities: bleaching responses and susceptibility to extinction. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 337: 1–13, 2007
Richardson et al. 2004. MHC-based patterns of social and extra-pair mate choice in the Seychelles warbler. Proc. R. Soc. B. doi:10.1098/rspb.2004.3028

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