Madagascar is a critical priority for international conservation efforts, based on almost
unparalleled levels of endemism, species diversity, and human threat. Field research …

We provide a cross‐taxon and historical analysis of what makes tropical forest species
vulnerable to extinction. Several traits have been important for species survival in the recent …

Inferring cause and effect from the fossil record is not a wholly satisfying enterprise. The
evidence is stale. Many useful details are missing, perhaps never to be found. Sequential …

Madagascar is one of the world's hottest biodiversity hot spots due to its diverse, endemic,
and highly threatened biota. This biota shows a distinct signature of evolution in isolation …

Madagascar's diverse and mostly endemic fauna and flora suffer from recent landscape
changes that are primarily caused by high levels of human activities. The loss and …

There are two possible approaches to understanding natural and human-induced changes
in the primate communities of Madagascar. One is to begin with present-day and recent …

Grasses, by their high productivity even under very low p CO2, their ability to survive
repeated burning and to tolerate long dry seasons, have transformed the terrestrial biomes …

Global climate change is continuing to occur at an alarming rate. In addition to increases in
global weather extremes, melting of polar ice caps, and subsequent sea level rises, climate …

The geographic and temporal origins of Madagascar's biota have long been in the center of
debate. We reconstructed a time-tree including nearly all native nonflying and nonmarine …

The environmental impact of the early human inhabitants of Madagascar remains heavily
debated. We present results from a study using two stalagmites collected from Anjohibe …