Madagascar's current biodiversity fascinates us with its particularities, but that of the past, now lost, remains largely beyond our imagination. Using scientific evidence from 13 different palaeontological and archaeological sites, the authors examined the ecological changes that have occurred over recent geological time. This approach has opened up a series of windows revealing the extent to which the ranges of many habitats and their components, particularly plants and animals, have shrunk considerably or even disappeared altogether. These discoveries have in turn enabled us to assess and explain natural changes in relation to those caused by man. Velizar Simeonovski's remarkable illustrations bring these ancient ecosystems to life.
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