Flora and Fauna
Much of the area of the island above the cliffs is covered with tussock grassland on a substratum of peat undermined with petrel burrows. The environment includes herbfield communities, rock and ledge communities, as well as lichens and cushion plants.
Birds recorded as breeding on Jacquemart include the Sooty Shearwater, Northern Giant Petrel, Grey-backed Storm-petrel, Light-mantled Sooty Albatross, Brown Skua and Campbell Shag. Other seabirds which may breed there are Common Diving-petrel and Cape Petrel. Australasian Pipits and Common Starlings have been seen. A species of cave weta has also been recorded from the island, as well as the Campbell Island Leaf-veined Slug.
The island is part of the Campbell Island group Important Bird Area (IBA), identified as such by BirdLife International because of its significance as a breeding site for several species of seabirds as well as the endemic Campbell Teal and Campbell Snipe.
Read more about this topic: Jacquemart Island
Famous quotes containing the words flora and/or fauna:
“A man’s interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The whole fauna of human fantasies, their marine vegetation, drifts and luxuriates in the dimly lit zones of human activity, as though plaiting thick tresses of darkness. Here, too, appear the lighthouses of the mind, with their outward resemblance to less pure symbols. The gateway to mystery swings open at the touch of human weakness and we have entered the realms of darkness. One false step, one slurred syllable together reveal a man’s thoughts.”
—Louis Aragon (1897–1982)