Madagascar's extraordinary biodiversity: Threats and opportunities

H Ralimanana, AL Perrigo, RJ Smith, JS Borrell… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Madagascar's unique biota is heavily affected by human activity and is under intense threat.
Here, we review the current state of knowledge on the conservation status of Madagascar's …

Madagascar's extraordinary biodiversity: Evolution, distribution, and use

A Antonelli, RJ Smith, AL Perrigo, A Crottini, J Hackel… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Madagascar's biota is hyperdiverse and includes exceptional levels of endemicity. We
review the current state of knowledge on Madagascar's past and current terrestrial and …

Tourism and environment

R Buckley - Annual review of environment and resources, 2011 - annualreviews.org
Tourism is a large, diffuse global industry. Environmental aspects are little studied, with∼
1,500 publications in total. Impacts range from global contributions to climate change and …

The confounding effects of population structure, genetic diversity and the sampling scheme on the detection and quantification of population size changes

L Chikhi, VC Sousa, P Luisi, B Goossens… - Genetics, 2010 - academic.oup.com
The idea that molecular data should contain information on the recent evolutionary history of
populations is rather old. However, much of the work carried out today owes to the work of …

[图书][B] Conservation tourism

R Buckley - 2010 - books.google.com
The effects of tourism on the ecology and natural environment of tourist destinations are
hotly debated and research has expanded in the field of ecotourism and sustainability. This …

Inferring population decline and expansion from microsatellite data: a simulation-based evaluation of the Msvar method

C Girod, R Vitalis, R Leblois, H Fréville - Genetics, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Reconstructing the demographic history of populations is a central issue in evolutionary
biology. Using likelihood-based methods coupled with Monte Carlo simulations, it is now …

Past environmental changes affected lemur population dynamics prior to human impact in Madagascar

H Teixeira, V Montade, J Salmona, J Metzger… - Communications …, 2021 - nature.com
Quaternary climatic changes have been invoked as important drivers of species
diversification worldwide. However, the impact of such changes on vegetation and animal …

Genetic data suggest a natural prehuman origin of open habitats in northern Madagascar and question the deforestation narrative in this region

E Quéméré, X Amelot, J Pierson… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - National Acad Sciences
The impact of climate change and anthropogenic deforestation on biodiversity is of growing
concern worldwide. Disentangling how past anthropogenic and natural factors contributed to …

Landscape genetics of an endangered lemur (Propithecus tattersalli) within its entire fragmented range

E Quemere, B CROUAU‐ROY, C Rabarivola… - Molecular …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Habitat fragmentation may strongly reduce individuals' dispersal among resource patches
and hence influence population distribution and persistence. We studied the impact of …

Lemur species-specific metapopulation responses to habitat loss and fragmentation

TS Steffens, SM Lehman - PLoS One, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Determining what factors affect species occurrence is vital to the study of primate
biogeography. We investigated the metapopulation dynamics of a lemur community …