A new study by a team of international scientists including Liliana M. Dávalos, professor of conservation biology from Stony Brook University's Department of Ecology and Evolution, reveals that it would take 3 million years to recover the number of species that went extinct from human activity on Madagascar. Published in Nature Communications, the study also projects that if currently threatened species go extinct on Madagascar, recovering them would take more than 20 million years — much longer than what has previously been found on any other island archipelago in the world. From uni...