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Chocolate bushbabies: how cocoa farms could provide a home for wildlife
Cocoa agroforests can provide important habitat for wildlife, alongside natural forests. Photo: A cocoa agroforest in Ghana, by Daniel Hending (lead author) Written by Dr Daniel Hending Chocolate and galagos, otherwise known as bushbabies, may seem an unlikely pairing. But new research published in Ecology and Evolution suggests that cocoa farms could have an important role to play in supporting these small, nocturnal primates.
Breaking Boundaries: Multidirectional Responses of Malagasy Bats to Unmitigated Future Climate Change
1 Introduction Climate change is widely recognised as a key threat to biodiversity and the inherent functioning of the Earth's ecosystems (Parmesan and Yohe 2003). Human-induced greenhouse gas emissions are driving substantial shifts in atmospheric patterns, promoting widespread temperature increases, changes in precipitation, and higher intensity and frequency of extreme weather events (IPCC 2019).
Chocolate Bushbabies: Cocoa Agroforests as Habitat for Galagos (Galagidae) in the Ashanti Region, Ghana
1 Introduction Agricultural expansion for croplands, plantations and pastures, driven by human population growth, is a leading cause of deforestation in the tropics (Foley et al. 2005; Maja and Ayano 2021; Pendrill et al. 2022). Tropical forests are vital habitats for around half of the world's vertebrate species (Pillay et al. 2022), and deforestation and expanding agriculture are therefore major drivers of biodiversity loss and species extinction (Williams et al. 2021; Wiebe and Wilcove 2025).
Crowdsourced biodiversity monitoring fills gaps in global plant trait mapping - Nature Communications
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Abstract Plant functional traits are fundamental to ecosystem dynamics and Earth system processes, but their global characterization is limited by available field surveys and trait measurements. Recent expansions in biodiversity data aggregation—including vegetation surveys, citizen science observations, and trait measurements—offer new opportunities to overcome these constraints.
By Daniel Lusk, Carsten F. Dormann, Jens Kattge, Helge Bruelheide, Francesco Sabatini, Gabriella Damasceno, Alvaro Martinez Verified, Cyrille Violle, Daniel Hending, Solana Tabeni, Shyam S. Phartyal, Fernando Gonçalves, Holger Kreft, Marco Schmidt Verified, Han Chen, Jiri Dolezal, Ciara Dwyer Verified, Francesca Napoleone, Jacob Willie, Manuel J. Macía, Milan Chytrý, Jonathan Lenoir, Dinesh Thakur, Jürgen Dengler, Jan Altman, Ladislav Mucina, Kaoru Kakinuma, Mohamed Z. Hatim, Flavio Rodrigues, Jürgen Homeier, James McCarthy, Kilian Gerberding, André Luís Gasper, M. A. El-Sheikh
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Impact of Forest Fragmentation and Associated Edge Effects on Tropical Forest Biodiversity in North West Madagascar, Assessed via Ecoacoustics
1 Introduction Natural habitats around the world are being lost at an ever-accelerating rate due to land conversion, unmitigated climate change and unsustainable exploitation of natural resources (Brooks et al. 2002; Hoekstra et al. 2005; Jantz et al. 2015). This has resulted in a rapid decline in global biodiversity (Segan et al. 2016; Chase et al. 2020; Jaureguiberry et al. 2022). Covering a total global area of 10 million km2 (Senior et al.
Integrative taxonomy clarifies the evolution of a cryptic primate clade - Nature Ecology & Evolution
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Abstract Global biodiversity is under accelerating threats, and species are succumbing to extinction before being described. Madagascar’s biota represents an extreme example of this scenario, with the added complication that much of its endemic biodiversity is cryptic.
By Tobias van Elst, Gabriele M. Sgarlata, Dominik Schüßler, George Tiley, Jelmer W. Poelstra, Marina Scheumann, Marina B. Blanco, Steven Goodman, Daniel Hending, Paul Hohenlohe, Peter M Kappeler, Helena Teixeira, Ute Radespiel, Isa G. Aleixo-Pais, Alida F. Hasiniaina, Mohamed T. Ibouroi, S. Jacques Rakotondranary
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Cryptic species conservation: a review
I. INTRODUCTION Cryptic species can be broadly defined as two or more species that have historically been, or are currently classified as the same species due to morphological similarities that make them visually indistinguishable (Bickford et al., 2007).
Effects of forest fragmentation on the dietary ecology and activity of a nocturnal lemur community in North West Madagascar
SIRNP Sahamalaza-Iles Radama National Park 1 INTRODUCTION Deforestation is one of the primary threats to species survival globally, as more than half of the world's original tropical forest, an area of approximately 9 million km², has already been cleared (Giam, 2017; Whitmore, 1997).
Field studies: list local contributors as authors
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Climate change is threatening Madagascar's famous forests: Study shows how serious it is Original
Global climate change doesn't only cause the melting of polar ice caps, rising sea levels and extreme weather events. It also has a direct effect on many tropical habitats and the animals and plants that inhabit them. As fossil fuel emissions continue to drive climate change, large areas of land are forecast to become much hotter and drier by the end of this century.
Climate change is threatening Madagascar’s famous forests - our study shows how serious it is
Global climate change doesn’t only cause the melting of polar ice caps, rising sea levels and extreme weather events. It also has a direct effect on many tropical habitats and the animals and plants that inhabit them. As fossil fuel emissions continue to drive climate change, large areas of land are forecast to become much hotter and drier by the end of this century.
The kapok tree (Ceiba pentandra (L.) Gaertn, Malvaceae) as a food source for native vertebrate species during times of resource scarcity and its potential for reforestation in Madagascar
Natural History Notes Daniel Hending, Corresponding Author danhending2@gmail.com dan.hending@bristol.ac.uk orcid.org/0000-0003-0609-4354 School of Biological Sciences, The University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 1TQ UK Bristol Zoological Society, Clifton, Bristol, UK Corresponding author.
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