Peer-Reviewed Article November 19, 2013
The Eco - Geo - Clim model: explaining Madagascar’s endemism
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Published in: Madagascar Conservation & Development
Publisher: African Journals OnLine • Madagascar • 1662-2510
Abstract
Paleoclimatic oscillations (top left) driving tropical island endemism by producing alternating wet (S1) and dry (S4) conditions (bottom left), with Madagascar's centers of endemism (right panel, green) located between watersheds with headwaters at high altitude and extended riparian forest (right, blue).Madagascar Conservation & Development is the journal of Indian Ocean e-Ink.It is produced under the responsibility of this institution.The views expressed in contributions to MCD are solely those of the authors and not those of the journal editors or the publisher.