Late Miocene origin and recent population collapse of the Malagasy savanna olive tree (Noronhia lowryi)

A new interpretation of Madagascar's megafaunal decline: The “Subsistence Shift Hypothesis”

(2019) Laurie R. Godfrey et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

Phylogenomics using low‐depth whole genome sequencing: A case study with the olive tribe

(2019) Jill K. Olofsson et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

Fast hierarchical Bayesian analysis of population structure

(2019) Gerry Tonkin-Hill et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

A new late Pleistocene subfossil site (Tsaramody, Sambaina basin, central Madagascar) with implications for the chronology of habitat and megafaunal community change on Madagascar's Central Highlands

(2019) Karen E. Samonds et al.   JOURNAL OF QUATERNARY SCIENCE

A critical review of radiocarbon dates clarifies the human settlement of Madagascar

(2019) Kristina Douglass et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Combining global tree cover loss data with historical national forest cover maps to look at six decades of deforestation and forest fragmentation in Madagascar

(2018) Ghislain Vieilledent et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Grass diversification in Madagascar: In situ radiation of two large C3 shade clades and support for a Miocene to Pliocene origin of C4 grassy biomes

(2018) Jan Hackel et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Management impacts on fire occurrence: A comparison of fire regimes of African and South American tropical savannas in different protected areas

(2018) Swanni T. Alvarado et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Unearthing belowground bud banks in fire-prone ecosystems

(2018) Juli G. Pausas et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Resilience and restoration of tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas, and grassy woodlands

(2018) Elise Buisson et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Early Holocene human presence in Madagascar evidenced by exploitation of avian megafauna

(2018) James Hansford et al.   Science Advances

The genetic structure of a mouse lemur living in a fragmented habitat in Northern Madagascar

(2018) Isa Aleixo-Pais et al.   CONSERVATION GENETICS

Elucidation of the genetic architecture of self-incompatibility in olive: Evolutionary consequences and perspectives for orchard management

(2017) Pierre Saumitou-Laprade et al.   Evolutionary Applications

SMS: Smart Model Selection in PhyML

(2017) Vincent Lefort et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Climate change and human colonization triggered habitat loss and fragmentation in Madagascar

(2017) Jordi Salmona et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Prospects on the evolutionary mitogenomics of plants: A case study on the olive family (Oleaceae)

(2017) Céline Van de Paer et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

Demerelate : calculating interindividual relatedness for kinship analysis based on codominant diploid genetic markers using R

(2017) Philipp Kraemer et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

Population genetics data help to guide the conservation of palm species with small population sizes and fragmented habitats in Madagascar

(2017) Lauren M. Gardiner et al.   PeerJ

MEGA7: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Version 7.0 for Bigger Datasets

(2016) Sudhir Kumar et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Evidence for the long-term maintenance of a rare self-incompatibility system in Oleaceae

(2016) Philippe Vernet et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Clarifying the confusion: old-growth savannahs and tropical ecosystem degradation

(2016) Joseph W. Veldman   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Geogenetic patterns in mouse lemurs (genusMicrocebus) reveal the ghosts of Madagascar's forests past

(2016) Anne D. Yoder et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Madagascar's grasses and grasslands: anthropogenic or natural?

(2016) Maria S. Vorontsova et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Madagascar's ephemeral palaeo-grazer guild: who ate the ancient C4grasses?

(2016) L. R. Godfrey et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Rapid human-induced landscape transformation in Madagascar at the end of the first millennium of the Common Era

(2016) Stephen J. Burns et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Ancient grasslands at risk

(2016) W. J. Bond   SCIENCE

How Effective Have Thirty Years of Internationally Driven Conservation and Development Efforts Been in Madagascar?

(2016) Patrick O. Waeber et al.   PLoS One

What didHadropithecuseat, and why should paleoanthropologists care?

(2015) Laurie R. Godfrey et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY

Museomics illuminate the history of an extinct, paleoendemic plant lineage (Hesperelaea, Oleaceae) known from an 1875 collection from Guadalupe Island, Mexico

(2015) Loubab Zedane et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Determinants of flammability in savanna grass species

(2015) Kimberley J. Simpson et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Phylogeography and support vector machine classification of colour variation in panther chameleons

(2015) Djordje Grbic et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Achieving Sustainable Conservation in Madagascar: The Case of the Newly Established Ibity Mountain Protected Area

(2015) Swanni T. Alvarado et al.   Tropical Conservation Science

Detecting past changes of effective population size

(2014) Natacha Nikolic et al.   Evolutionary Applications

Isolation-by-distance in landscapes: considerations for landscape genetics

(2014) M J van Strien et al.   HEREDITY

BEAST 2: A Software Platform for Bayesian Evolutionary Analysis

(2014) Remco Bouckaert et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Poppr: an R package for genetic analysis of populations with clonal, partially clonal, and/or sexual reproduction

(2014) Zhian N. Kamvar et al.   PeerJ

Using a surviving lineage of Madagascar’s vanished megafauna for ecological restoration

(2013) Miguel Pedrono et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Species limits and diversification in the Madagascar olive (Noronhia, Oleaceae)

(2013) Cynthia Hong-Wa et al.   BOTANICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

History of the invasive African olive tree in Australia and Hawaii: evidence for sequential bottlenecks and hybridization with the Mediterranean olive

(2013) Guillaume Besnard et al.   Evolutionary Applications

Intricate patterns of phylogenetic relationships in the olive family as inferred from multi-locus plastid and nuclear DNA sequence analyses: A close-up on Chionanthus and Noronhia (Oleaceae)

(2013) Cynthia Hong-Wa et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Comparison of plant communities on the Ibity and Itremo massifs, Madagascar, with contrasting conservation histories and current status

(2013) Swanni T. Alvarado et al.   Plant Ecology & Diversity

The Confounding Effect of Population Structure on Bayesian Skyline Plot Inferences of Demographic History

(2013) Rasmus Heller et al.   PLoS One

Geneious Basic: An integrated and extendable desktop software platform for the organization and analysis of sequence data

(2012) M. Kearse et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Genetic data suggest a natural prehuman origin of open habitats in northern Madagascar and question the deforestation narrative in this region

(2012) E. Quemere et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Evolution of Grasses and Grassland Ecosystems

(2011) Caroline A.E. Strömberg   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Genomic profiling of plastid DNA variation in the Mediterranean olive tree

(2011) Guillaume Besnard et al.   BMC PLANT BIOLOGY

Deciphering the distribution of the savanna biome

(2011) Caroline E. R. Lehmann et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Evolution of human-driven fire regimes in Africa

(2011) S. Archibald et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

pegas: an R package for population genetics with an integrated-modular approach

(2010) E. Paradis   BIOINFORMATICS

The Confounding Effects of Population Structure, Genetic Diversity and the Sampling Scheme on the Detection and Quantification of Population Size Changes

(2010) L. Chikhi et al.   GENETICS

A refined chronology of prehistoric Madagascar and the demise of the megafauna

(2010) Brooke E. Crowley   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

The Origins of C4 Grasslands: Integrating Evolutionary and Ecosystem Science

(2010) E. J. Edwards et al.   SCIENCE

New Algorithms and Methods to Estimate Maximum-Likelihood Phylogenies: Assessing the Performance of PhyML 3.0

(2010) Stéphane Guindon et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Small effect of fragmentation on the genetic diversity of Dalbergia monticola, an endangered tree species of the eastern forest of Madagascar, detected by chloroplast and nuclear microsatellites

(2009) O. Andrianoelina et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Evidence for drought and forest declines during the recent megafaunal extinctions in Madagascar

(2009) Malika Virah-Sawmy et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Recent assembly of the Cerrado, a neotropical plant diversity hotspot, by in situ evolution of adaptations to fire

(2009) M. F. Simon et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Ecological consequences of Late Quaternary extinctions of megafauna

(2009) C.N. Johnson   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

What Limits Trees in C4 Grasslands and Savannas?

(2008) William J. Bond   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

adegenet: a R package for the multivariate analysis of genetic markers

(2008) Thibaut Jombart   BIOINFORMATICS

The antiquity of Madagascar’s grasslands and the rise of C4grassy biomes

(2008) William J. Bond et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

GSTand its relatives do not measure differentiation

(2008) LOU JOST   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY