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How landscape evolution makes Madagascar a hotspot for plant species diversity
Madagascar is home to more than 11‚000 plant species‚ 80% of which are found nowhere else on Earth. A recent study by the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest‚ Snow and Landscape Research WSL and ETH Zurich has put forward a new hypothesis for the underlying cause of Madagascar's rich plant biodiversity‚ which has been regarded as an unsolved mystery of natural history.