Can fossil resins inform us about the biodiversity loss in the Malagasy hotspot?

With a grant from National Geographic Global Exploration Fund Northern Europe and the support of the Malagasy Institute for the Conservation of Tropical Environments (MICET), Dr Mónica M. Solórzano Kraemer, scientist researcher from the Senckenberg Research Institute in Frankfurt (Germany), together with Dr Xavier Delclòs, professor of Paleontology at Faculty of Geolgy and member of the Biodiversity Research Institute (IRBio), and Dr Enrique Peñalver, scientist researcher at the Geological and Mining Institute of Spain, will look for the Malagasy copal and its inclusions. The title of the project is "Are fossil communities preserved in amber a real image of ancient ecosystems, and can inform us about loss of biodiversity? The Malagasy copal".

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