Daniel Rakotondravony

TL;DR: This review of the responses of species to anthropogenic disturbance in Madagascar stresses the urgency of applied studies that assess species’ ecology, behaviour and health across disturbance gradients, including purely anthropogenic landscapes.

TL;DR: Elements of both biogeographic models are combined in a new hypothesis that aims to explain the speciation process leading to the present distribution of mouse lemurs in Madagascar.

TL;DR: The authors carried out extensive field surveys in the dry forest portions of Madagascar to document the species of bats occurring in these regions and found that 28 species of Chiroptera occur in this region of the island, of which 27 during their inventories.

TL;DR: This study provides the first experimental data on the sensory ecology of food detection in mouse lemurs, and investigates whether they use visual, auditory, and motion cues to find and to localize prey arthropods and further whether olfactory cues are sufficient for finding fruit.

TL;DR: The long term ecological viability of these sites has been shown by population stability of the two Critically Endangered flagship species, the Madagascar fish eagle and the recently rediscovered Madagascar pochard, and high biological diversity also justifies their inclusion into Madagascar’s SAPM.