About Tropical Research in Edge Effects (TREE)
The longitudinal research objective that my students and I pursue is to integrate evolutionary ecology and conservation biogeography to model primate responses to anthropogenic disturbances. The specific aim of our research program is to determine how forest loss, forest fragmentation, and forest edges influence the lemur ecology in Madagascar.
Most of our research is in the tropical dry forests in and around Ankarafantsika National Park in north-west Madagascar, where we study:
- Propithecus coquereli,
- Microcebus murinus,
- Microcebus ravelobensis,
- Eulemur fulvus fulvus, and
- Eulemur mongoz.
