The vertebrate community of Madagascar is one of the most unique and diverse on Earth,
yet faunal diversity today is just a fraction of that present in the Pleistocene and Early …

Australia has a mostly dry, open, fire-shaped landscape of sclerophyllous and xeromorphic
flora dominated by eucalypt and acacia trees, with diverse shrubs from a few families such …

Grasses, by their high productivity even under very low p CO2, their ability to survive
repeated burning and to tolerate long dry seasons, have transformed the terrestrial biomes …

The landscapes of Madagascar have long delighted zoologists, who have discovered, in
and among the island's baobab trees and thickets, a dizzying array of animals, including …

Humans first arrived on Madagascar only a few thousand years ago. Subsequent habitat
destruction and hunting activities have had significant impacts on the island's biodiversity …

Madagascar's lemurs display a diverse array of feeding strategies with complex
relationships to seed dispersal mechanisms in Malagasy plants. Although these …

Understanding the paleoecology of extinct subfossil lemurs requires reconstruction of
dietary preferences. Tooth morphology is strongly correlated with diet in living primates and …

Reconstructing the dynamics and drivers of late Quaternary megafaunal extinctions requires
direct radiometric date series that are assessed within probabilistic statistical frameworks …

Stable isotope biogeochemistry is useful for quantifying the feeding ecology of modern and
extinct primates. Over the past three decades, substantial advances have been made in our …

Prehistoric and recent extinctions of large-bodied terrestrial herbivores had significant and
lasting impacts on Earth's ecosystems due to the loss of their distinct trait combinations. The …