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 …

A review and SWOC analysis of natural heritage tourism in sub-Saharan Africa

CN Mutanga, OD Kolawole, R Gondo… - Journal of Heritage …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
The paper analyses the state of natural heritage tourism in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and
assesses its strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and challenges (SWOC), accordingly …

Clonal genome evolution and rapid invasive spread of the marbled crayfish

J Gutekunst, R Andriantsoa, C Falckenhayn… - Nature ecology & …, 2018 - nature.com
The marbled crayfish Procambarus virginalis is a unique freshwater crayfish characterized
by very recent speciation and parthenogenetic reproduction. Marbled crayfish also represent …

Environmental drivers of Cheirogaleidae population density: Remarkable resilience of Madagascar's smallest lemurs to habitat degradation

D Hending - Ecology and Evolution, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Global animal populations are in decline due to destruction and degradation of their
natural habitat. Understanding the factors that determine the distribution and density of …

The fate of Madagascar's rainforest habitat

TL Morelli, AB Smith, AN Mancini, EA Balko… - Nature Climate …, 2020 - nature.com
Madagascar has experienced extensive deforestation and overharvesting, and
anthropogenic climate change will compound these pressures. Anticipating these threats to …

Bird diversity and endemism along a land‐use gradient in Madagascar: The conservation value of vanilla agroforests

DA Martin, R Andriafanomezantsoa, S Dröge… - Biotropica, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Land‐use change is the most important driver of biodiversity loss worldwide and particularly
so in the tropics, where natural habitats are transformed into large‐scale monocultures or …

[PDF][PDF] Describing the smaller majority: integrative taxonomy reveals twenty-six new species of tiny microhylid frogs (genus Stumpffia) from Madagascar PDF-29 MB

A Rakotoarison, M Scherz, F Glaw… - Vertebrate …, 2017 - vertebrate-zoology.arphahub.com
The genus Stumpffia BOETTGER, 1881 currently contains 15 named, small to miniaturized
frog species, classified in the endemic Malagasy subfamily Cophylinae of the family …

How citizen science could improve species distribution models and their independent assessment

F Matutini, J Baudry, G Pain, M Sineau… - Ecology and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Species distribution models (SDM) have been increasingly developed in recent years, but
their validity is questioned. Their assessment can be improved by the use of independent …

The establishment of ecological conservation for herpetofauna species in hotspot areas of South Korea

MS Do, SJ Son, G Choi, N Yoo, D Kim, KS Koo… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Understanding the geographic distribution of species is crucial for establishing protected
areas. This study aimed to identify the preferred habitat environment of South Korean …