Marina N. Rabarimanarivo

TL;DR: The Catalogue of the Vascular Plants of Madagascar project aims to evaluate and enumerate the native and naturalized vascular plant flora of Madagascar as mentioned in this paper, which is a collection of more than 4,100 species of vascular plants.

TL;DR: In many parts of the world rock outcrops form important landscape elements that play a role in generating and maintaining biodiversity in addition toproviding keyecosystem services as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: The extraordinary botanical diversity of inselbergs in Madagascar is illustrated, with 724 taxa out of 338 genera and 107 families have been recorded and the variability in floristic composition between different regions is remarkable.

TL;DR: Antonelli et al. as discussed by the authors reviewed the current state of knowledge on Madagascar's past and current terrestrial and freshwater biodiversity by compiling and presenting comprehensive data on species diversity, endemism, and rates of species description and human uses, in addition to presenting an updated and simplified map of vegetation types.

TL;DR: Antonelli et al. as discussed by the authors reviewed the current state of knowledge on the conservation status of Madagascar's terrestrial and freshwater biodiversity by presenting data and analyses on documented and predicted species-level conservation statuses, the most prevalent and relevant threats, ex situ collections and programs, and the coverage and comprehensiveness of protected areas.