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 …

[HTML][HTML] Recent progress in taxonomic studies, biogeographic analysis, and revised checklist of amphibians in Indochina

NA Poyarkov, T Van Nguyen, ES Popov… - Russian Journal of …, 2021‏ - rjh.folium.ru
Abstract The Indochinese Peninsula is recognized as one of the key global biodiversity
hotspots. The amphibian fauna of Indochina (including Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and …

[HTML][HTML] Minimalist revision and description of 403 new species in 11 subfamilies of Costa Rican braconid parasitoid wasps, including host records for 219 species

MJ Sharkey, DH Janzen, W Hallwachs… - ZooKeys, 2021‏ - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Three new genera are described: Michener (Proteropinae), Bioalfa (Rogadinae), and
Hermosomastax (Rogadinae). Keys are given for the New World genera of the following …

Win-win opportunities combining high yields with high multi-taxa biodiversity in tropical agroforestry

A Wurz, T Tscharntke, DA Martin, K Osen… - Nature …, 2022‏ - nature.com
Resolving ecological-economic trade-offs between biodiversity and yields is a key challenge
when addressing the biodiversity crisis in tropical agricultural landscapes. Here, we focused …

[كتاب][B] The new natural history of Madagascar

SM Goodman - 2022‏ - books.google.com
A marvelously illustrated reference to the natural wonders of one of the most spectacular
places on earth Separated from Africa's mainland for tens of millions of years, Madagascar …

[PDF][PDF] A revised classification of the amphibian reproductive modes

CHL Nunes-de-Almeida, CFB Haddad, LF Toledo - Salamandra, 2021‏ - researchgate.net
Amphibian reproductive modes (RMs) have been extensively described and applied to
amphibian biology studies. However, due to new behavioural observations and past system …

The grassy ecosystems of Madagascar in context: Ecology, evolution, and conservation

JA Silander Jr, WJ Bond, J Ratsirarson - Plants, People, Planet, 2024‏ - Wiley Online Library
Societal Impact Statement Madagascar is famous for its unique forests and their fauna. Most
of the island is covered by flammable grassy ecosystems long considered to be of human …

An inordinate fondness for inconspicuous brown frogs: Integration of phylogenomics, archival DNA analysis, morphology, and bioacoustics yields 24 new taxa in the …

MD Scherz, A Crottini, C Hutter, A Hildenbrand… - Megataxa, 2022‏ - flore.unifi.it
Malagasy frogs of the subgenus Brygoomantis in the mantellid frog genus Mantidactylus
currently comprise 14 described species of mostly brown, riparian frogs. Data from DNA …

[PDF][PDF] The omission of critical data in the pursuit of'revolutionary'methods to accelerate the description of species.

A Zamani, V Vahtera, IE Sääksjärvi… - Systematic …, 2021‏ - markscherz.com
Recently, Meierotto et al.(2019) proposed a 'revolutionary'protocol for the description of
understudied hyperdiverse taxa. The premise of their study was to champion exclusively …