Implications of lemuriform extinctions for the Malagasy flora

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 113, Issue 18, 2016, Pages 5041-5046

  Federman, Sarah ^a   Dornburg, Alex ^b   Daly, Douglas C ^c   Downie, Alexander ^a   Perry, George H ^d   Yoder, Anne E ^e   Sargis, Eric J ^a   Richard, Alison F ^a   Donoghue, Michael J ^a   Baden, Andrea L ^f,g,h  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF SYSTEMATIC BOTANY   (United States)

^d PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^g CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^h New York Consortium for Evolutionary Primatology   (United States)

Author keywords

Anachronism; Extinction; Lemurs; Madagascar; Seed dispersal

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; FLORA; FRUGIVORY; FRUIT; FRUIT SIZE; HERBIVORY; LEMURIDAE; LONG TERM SURVIVAL; MADAGASCAR; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; PLANT LEAF; PLANT SEED; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEED DISPERSAL; SEED SIZE; STOCHASTIC MODEL; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FOREST; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PROSIMIAN; SPECIES EXTINCTION; STATISTICAL MODEL; TREE;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; FORESTS; MADAGASCAR; MODELS, STATISTICAL; SEED DISPERSAL; STREPSIRHINI; TREES;

EID: 84965134751     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1523825113     Document Type: Article

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