Authors
Anne D Yoder, C Ryan Campbell, Marina B Blanco, Mario Dos Reis, Jörg U Ganzhorn, Steven M Goodman, Kelsie E Hunnicutt, Peter A Larsen, Peter M Kappeler, Rodin M Rasoloarison, José M Ralison, David L Swofford, David W Weisrock
Publication date
2016/7/19
Journal
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Volume
113
Issue
29
Pages
8049-8056
Publisher
National Academy of Sciences
Description
Phylogeographic analysis can be described as the study of the geological and climatological processes that have produced contemporary geographic distributions of populations and species. Here, we attempt to understand how the dynamic process of landscape change on Madagascar has shaped the distribution of a targeted clade of mouse lemurs (genus Microcebus) and, conversely, how phylogenetic and population genetic patterns in these small primates can reciprocally advance our understanding of Madagascar's prehuman environment. The degree to which human activity has impacted the natural plant communities of Madagascar is of critical and enduring interest. Today, the eastern rainforests are separated from the dry deciduous forests of the west by a large expanse of presumed anthropogenic grassland savanna, dominated by the Family Poaceae, that blankets most of the Central Highlands …
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Scholar articles
AD Yoder, CR Campbell, MB Blanco, M Dos Reis… - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2016