Nature Communications (Jan 2023)

The macroevolutionary impact of recent and imminent mammal extinctions on Madagascar

  • Nathan M. Michielsen,
  • Steven M. Goodman,
  • Voahangy Soarimalala,
  • Alexandra A. E. van der Geer,
  • Liliana M. Dávalos,
  • Grace I. Saville,
  • Nathan Upham,
  • Luis Valente

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-35215-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Madagascar is a threatened biodiversity hotspot. Here, using a newly assembled dataset and island biogeography models, the authors estimate how many millions of years of evolutionary history have been lost since human colonisation and may be further lost in the future for Malagasy mammals.