Past environmental changes affected lemur population dynamics prior to human impact in Madagascar

Teixeira et al. combine genomic and palaeoecological datasets to infer the demographic history of a forest-dwelling lemur in Madagascar. Their findings indicate that historical environmental changes drove population demographic changes prior to anthropogenic impact, which was detected in the study r...

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Main Authors: Helena Teixeira, Vincent Montade, Jordi Salmona, Julia Metzger, Laurent Bremond, Thomas Kasper, Gerhard Daut, Sylvie Rouland, Sandratrinirainy Ranarilalatiana, Romule Rakotondravony, Lounès Chikhi, Hermann Behling, Ute Radespiel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2021-09-01
Series:Communications Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-021-02620-1