New study shows pre-human effect on biodiversity in northern Madagascar
Monday, July 23, 2012 - 14:00
in Earth & Climate
A recent study, by an international research group led by Lounes Chickhi, group leader at the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencia, and CNRS researcher in Toulouse, France, questions the prevailing account that degradation of tropical ecosystems is essentially a product of human activity. Their findings call for reassessment of the impact of local communities on their environment.