uh, not getting it?

[acroyear70]

New Species Discovered on Environmentally Damaged Easter Island | Insect, Indigenous Ecosystem & Extinction | LiveScience:Almost all of the organisms currently living on Easter Island are invasive species that have been introduced, Wynne said.
Mr. Wynne

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[kmusser]

When talking about Pacific Islands there's sort of an implied "since European contact" that should be tacked on to everything, Easter Island's drastic ecological change from jungle to barren is the subject of quite a bit of literature in biogeography.

[acroyear70]

in the case of Easter Island, there's a bit of "since human contact" in general - the europeans didn't really find it 'til the 19th century, but the talk in the article (and linked ones) cover transitions they want to date to the 1200s (the arrival of rats).