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Correspondence |
Conservation work is incomplete without cryptic biodiversity
- Genoveva F. Esteban
- & Bland J. Finlay
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News |
Lemurs' wet and wild past
Model shows how mammals could have 'rafted' to Madagascar.
- Geoff Brumfiel
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Letter |
Mammalian biodiversity on Madagascar controlled by ocean currents
Madagascar has a striking and peculiar fauna. It has been proposed that the ancestors of Madagascar's present-day mammal stock rafted there from Africa, but the validity of this hypothesis is questioned. Using palaeogeographic reconstructions and palaeo-oceanographic modelling, surface currents during the Palaeogene period are now shown to have been capable of transporting the animals to the island, as required by the hypothesis.
- Jason R. Ali
- & Matthew Huber
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Disease epidemic killing only US bats
European bats seemingly unaffected by fungal infection.
- Lizzie Buchen
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Correspondence |
Step up aspirations to save biodiversity as 2010 begins
- Ashok Khosla
- & Julia Marton-Lefèvre
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News Feature |
Ecology: Wish you were here
An annual excursion to an exclusive Caribbean island has yielded an impressive body of ecological fieldwork. Just don't call it a holiday, says Mark Schrope.
- Mark Schrope