Press Coverage

Selection of press coverage of our research:

Mammalian extinction on Madagascar Nature Communications (2023)

• ABC US, USA, Madagascar faces millions of years of extinctions due to human activity, scientists say

• The Guardian, UK, Madagascar’s unique wildlife faces imminent wave of extinction, say scientists

• BBC News, UK Biodiversity: Rising tide of extinctions on Madagascar

• Trouw, Netherlands, De natuur op Madagaskar is uniek, maar een uitstervingsgolf dreigt

• Sky News UK (mention on TV news programme)

• ITV news, UK Extinctions ‘may threaten Madagascar’s biodiversity for 23 million years

• Nature Africa The deep evolutionary impact of Madagascar’s imminent extinction wave

• Daily Beast, USA, Extinctions Might Screw Up Madagascar for 20 Million Years

• Tagesspiegel, Germany, Insel der verlorenen Zeit: Über 20 Millionen Jahre Evolution auf Madagaskar in Gefahr

• Deutschlandfunk Radio, Germany Deutschlandfunk Forschung Aktuell

• BBC World News Radio

Global analysis of island birds in Nature (2020)

• Nature Today, The Netherlands, De soortenrijkdom van eilandvogels wereldwijd verklaard

• VBio, Germany, Welche Faktoren die Anzahl von Vogelarten auf Inseln erklären

• Público, Portugal, Porque é que umas ilhas têm mais aves do que outras?

New Zealand birds (2019)

• Scientific American, USA, Podcast, Extinction Wipes Out Evolution's Hard Work

• Discover Magazine, USA, 50 Million Years Needed for New Zealand’s Bird Biodiversity to Recover

• Der Spiegel, Germany, Neuseelands Vogelwelt bräuchte 50 Millionen Jahre, um sich zu erholen

• Süddeutsche Zeitung, Germany, 50 Millionen Jahre, um sich vom Menschen zu erholen

• Le Figaro, France, En Nouvelle-Zélande, l’homme a décimé les oiseaux en 700 ans

• RNZ, Radio New Zealand, How could bird species diversity be recovered?

• Cosmos Magazine, Australia, 50 million years needed for NZ’s lost birds to recover

• Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Switzerland, Neuseelands Vogelwelt würde Millionen Jahre brauchen, um sich vom bisherigen Artensterben zu erholen

• Der Standard, Austria, Neuseelands Vogelvielfalt bräuchte Jahrmillionen, um sich zu erholen

• ABC, Spain

• Público, Portugal, Número de espécies de aves perdidas da Nova Zelândia levaria 50 milhões de anos a recuperar

Macaronesian birds (2017)

•  RTVE (Spanish National television), "The Canary Islands and Macaronesia have birds for more than 8.5 million years."

Caribbean bats (2017)

• Interview on BNR News Radio (The Netherlands) about our paper on Caribbean bats, January 2017

• Caribbean bat species need 8 million years to recover from recent extinction waves, National Science Foundation website, January 2017

Galápagos birds (2015)

• "Darwin finches reached evolutionary limit", National Geographic (magazine, Netherlands/Belgium), June 2015

• "Galápagos: Darwin's islands will witness the birth of new species" , Público (newspaper, Portugal), June 2015

• "Bird evolution proceeds at different paces in the Galápagos", O Globo (newspaper, Brazil), June 2015 

Orchids (2013)

• “Copycat Orchids”, Science, online edition, June 2013

Diversification in carnations (2010)

• “Flower power”, Nature, 463, 590 (2010) doi:10.1038/463590a

• “How carnations conquered Europe”, Science, online edition, January 2010

• “Fast radiation in Europe”, National Geographic (Russian printed edition), p. 38 October 2010

• “Carnations had evolutionary bloom boom in Europe”, Science News, USA, 177, p. 8, 2010

• “The Mediterranean is the tropical rainforest of wild carnations”, Publico (newspaper, Portugal), 05-08-2010)

• “Europe is among the centers of Evolution on Earth”, Infox, Russia, February 2010.

• “Nelken entwickelten sich schnell”, N-TV, Germany, January 2010

• “Carnations have diversified more rapidly than any other plant group”, Europa Press, Spain, February 2010.

• “The incredible variety of Europe’s carnations”, Oggi Scienza, Italy, February 2010