Giant tortoises spread to western Indian Ocean islands by sea drift in pre-Holocene times, not by later human agency - response to Wilmé et al . (2016a)

Marine turtles used to assist Austronesian sailors reaching new islands

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Human translocation as an alternative hypothesis to explain the presence of giant tortoises on remote islands in the south-western Indian Ocean

(2016) Lucienne Wilmé et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Evolutionary origins and genetic variation of the Seychelles treefrog, Tachycnemis seychellensis (Duméril and Bibron, 1841) (Amphibia: Anura: Hyperoliidae)

(2014) Simon T. Maddock et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Rediscovery of a lost Lagerstätte: a comparative analysis of the historical and recent Mare aux Songes dodo excavations on Mauritius

(2014) J.P. Hume et al.   HISTORICAL BIOLOGY

Multi-proxy reconstruction of environmental dynamics and colonization impacts in the Mauritian uplands

(2013) Erik J. de Boer et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Stone tools and foraging in northern Madagascar challenge Holocene extinction models

(2013) R. E. Dewar et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Mauritius since the last glacial: environmental and climatic reconstruction of the last 38 000 years from Kanaka Crater

(2012) Geert W. Van Der Plas et al.   JOURNAL OF QUATERNARY SCIENCE

Spatial and temporal arrival patterns of Madagascar's vertebrate fauna explained by distance, ocean currents, and ancestor type

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

Development of Distinct Morphotypes in Captive Seychelles–Aldabra Giant Tortoises

(2011) Justin Gerlach   CHELONIAN CONSERVATION AND BIOLOGY

Mid-Holocene (4200 kyr BP) mass mortalities in Mauritius (Mascarenes): Insular vertebrates resilient to climatic extremes but vulnerable to human impact

(2011) Kenneth F. Rijsdijk et al.   HOLOCENE

Evolution of shield-building and rejuvenescent volcanism of Mauritius

(2011) Jacob Moore et al.   JOURNAL OF VOLCANOLOGY AND GEOTHERMAL RESEARCH

Unravelling the peculiarities of island life: vicariance, dispersal and the diversification of the extinct and extant giant Galápagos tortoises

(2011) NIKOS POULAKAKIS et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Eastward from Africa: palaeocurrent-mediated chameleon dispersal to the Seychelles islands

(2010) T. M. Townsend et al.   Biology Letters

Megafaunal meiolaniid horned turtles survived until early human settlement in Vanuatu, Southwest Pacific

(2010) A. W. White et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Tectonically driven changes in the Indian Ocean circulation over the last 25 Ma: Neodymium isotope evidence

(2008) Alexandra T. Gourlan et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS