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Madagascar has experienced extensive deforestation and overharvesting, and anthropogenic climate change will compound these pressures. Anticipating these threats to endangered species and their ecosystems requ...
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In recent decades Madagascar has experienced significant habitat loss and modification, with minimal understanding of how human land use practices have impacted the evolution of its flora and fauna. In light o...
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Isolated in one of the most extreme marine environments on Earth, teleost fish diversity in Antarctica’s Southern Ocean is dominated by one lineage: the notothenioids. Throughout the past century, the long-ter...
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Molecular data support the existence of two species of the Antarctic fish genus Cryodraco (Channichthyidae)
Antarctic notothenioids represent one of the few strongly supported examples of adaptive radiation in marine fishes. The extent of population connectivity and structure is unknown for many species, thereby lim...
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Open AccessThe biogeographic origin of a radiation of trees in Madagascar: implications for the assembly of a tropical forest biome
Madagascar’s rain forests are characterized by extreme and uneven patterns of species richness and endemicity, the biogeographic and evolutionary origins of which are poorly understood.
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Studies of small-scale spatial genetic structure are crucial to the implementation of successful conservation and management plans as they enhance our capacity to predict a population’s ability to respond to c...
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Mauritia flexuosa L.f. (Arecaceae) is a New World tropical palm that generally grows in isolated swamps along meandering rivers and is in danger of fragmentation through unsustainable harvest pra...
