Climate change impacts island communities all over the world. Sea-level rise, an increase in
the frequency and intensity of severe weather events, and changes in distribution and health …

Fundamental disagreements remain regarding the relative importance of climate change
and human activities as triggers for Madagascar's Holocene megafaunal extinction. We use …

The human communities and ecosystems of island and coastal southeast Africa face
significant and linked ecological threats. Socioecological conditions of concern to …

Pleistocene water crossings, long thought to be an innovation of Homo sapiens, may extend
beyond our species to encompass Middle and Early Pleistocene Homo. However, it remains …

The estimated period in which human colonization of Madagascar began has expanded
recently to 5000–1000 y BP, six times its range in 1990, prompting revised thinking about …

For the last seven years, PlanetScope satellites have started near-daily imaging of parts of
the Earth's surface, making high-density multitemporal, multispectral, 3-m pixel imagery …

Fish are the most diverse group of vertebrates, fulfil important ecological functions and are of
significant economic interest for aquaculture and wild fisheries. Advances in DNA extraction …

In this paper, we advocate a collaborative approach to investigating past human–
environment interactions in southwest Madagascar. We do so by critically reflecting as a …

Madagascar experienced environmental change during the Late-Holocene, and the relative
importance of climatic and anthropogenic drivers is still the subject of an ongoing debate …

Despite decades of archaeological research, roughly 75% of Madagascar's land area
remains archaeologically unexplored and the oldest sites on the island are difficult to locate …