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Mid-Holocene aridity recorded in pygmy hippo and giant tortoise bone from southwest Madagascar.
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- Baobab isotope records and rainfall forcing in Southwest Madagascar over the last 700 years.PloS one · 2026Article
- Mid-Holocene aridity recorded in pygmy hippo and giant tortoise bone from southwest Madagascar.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2025Article
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Aridity can exacerbate threats to endemic biodiversity, and arid intervals during the last couple of millennia may have contributed to endemic large herbivore extinctions on Madagascar. However, regional palaeoclimate records spanning multiple millennia are limited, and the tolerance of extinct taxa to past water scarcity is poorly known. To infer changes in the diet and habitat aridity of extinct pygmy hippos and giant tortoises during approximately 6000-1000 years ago, I used carbon and nitrogen isotope (
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