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1 online resource (341 pages) |
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Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- 1 African primate communities: Determinants of structure and threats to survival -- INTRODUCTION -- ENVIRONMENTS OF AFRICAN PRIMATES -- A FOCUS ON FOREST STUDY SITES -- Tiwai Island, Sierra Leone -- Douala-Edéa Forest Reserve, Cameroon -- Lopé Forest Reserve, Gabon and Forêt des Abeilles -- Makandé, Gabon -- M'passa Reserve -- Makokou study site, Gabon -- Salonga National Park, Democratic Republic of the Congo -- Kibale National Park, Uganda -- Budongo Forest Reserve, Uganda -- PATTERNS AND CAUSES OF VARIATION IN PRIMATE COMMUNITY STRUCTURE AND BIOMASS -- The species structure of communities -- Habitat and community structure -- History and community structure -- Consequences of variation in species structure -- Population densities and community biomass -- Food supply -- Disease and parasites -- Predation -- CONSERVATION -- CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- 2 Biomass and use of resources in south and south-east Asian primate communities -- INTRODUCTION -- Biomass and primate communities -- STUDY SITES -- METHODS -- RESULTS AND DISCUSSION -- Evaluation of various factors as determinants of the biomass -- Biogeography -- Habitat types -- Rainfall -- Tree density -- Forage quality -- Productivity -- Seasonality -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- 3 Species coexistence, distribution, and environmental determinants of neotropical primate richness: A community-level ... -- INTRODUCTION -- METHODS -- Sampling sites and patterns of species distribution -- The geography of species diversity -- Environmental determinants of primate richness -- Forest types and primate community similarity -- DISCUSSION -- Latitudinal gradients revisited -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- 4 Primate communities: Madagascar -- INTRODUCTION |
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VARIATIONS IN THE ABUNDANCE OF SPECIES AND THEIR COMMUNITY CHARACTERISTICS -- THE NUMBER OF LEMUR SPECIES PER COMMUNITY -- POPULATION DENSITIES -- COMPARISON OF RAIN AND DRY FOREST HABITATS: FOOD QUANTITY -- SOIL QUALITY AS A POSSIBLE REASON FOR FRUITING PATTERNS -- SUMMARY -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- 5 Primate diversity -- REFERENCES -- 6 Phylogenetic and temporal perspectives on primate ecology -- INTRODUCTION -- OVERVIEW OF THE PRIMATE FOSSIL RECORD -- THE TIMING OF PRIMATE RADIATIONS FROM MOLECULAR EVIDENCE -- Africa -- Asia -- Madagascar -- South America -- ECOLOGICAL DIVERSITY -- PHYLOGENY AND ECOLOGY -- Phylogenetic distance and ecological distance -- Phylogenetic diversity and ecological diversity among communities -- Ecological distance and phylogenetic distance within assemblages -- DISCUSSION AND SUMMARY -- REFERENCES -- 7 Population density of primates in communities: Differences in community structure -- INTRODUCTION -- PRIMATE COMMUNITY DATA -- PRIMATE COMMUNITIES AND POPULATION DENSITY ANALYSES -- Species diversity and population densities within and among continents -- THE INFLUENCE OF BODY SIZE AND BIOMASS ON PRIMATE COMMUNITY STRUCTURE -- Body size distributions within and among continental areas -- Biomass distributions within and among continental areas -- Comparisons of body size and biomass within and among primate communities -- POPULATION DENSITY AND ECOLOGICAL SPACE WITHIN AND AMONG CONTINENTS -- Primate population density and ecospace discussion -- CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- 8 Body mass, competition and the structure of primate communities -- INTRODUCTION -- POPULATION DENSITIES, BODY MASS AND DIET -- Population densities -- Body mass -- Dietary categories -- BODY MASS RATIOS BETWEEN SPECIES WITH SIMILAR DIETS WITHIN A COMMUNITY -- Primate communities -- COMPARISON OF PRIMATE AND NON-PRIMATE TAXA |
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SYNTHESIS -- Lack of correlation between annual rainfall and forest (and thus niche) diversity -- Lack of primate niche diversification, resulting in intensive competition over limited resources and thus reducing the ... -- Lack of competitive interaction between primate species -- Consequence of strong interactions of primates with other mammalian taxa -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- 9 Convergence and divergence in primate social systems -- INTRODUCTION -- DETERMINANTS OF SOCIAL SYSTEMS -- CONVERGENCE IN SOCIAL ORGANIZATION AND STRUCTURE -- Group size -- Group structure -- Social structure -- DISCUSSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- 10 Of mice and monkeys: Primates as predictors of mammal community richness -- INTRODUCTION -- RATIONALE -- SITE LISTS AND METHODS -- TOTAL MAMMAL FAUNAS -- INDIVIDUAL FAUNAL COMPONENTS -- DISCUSSION -- Continental patterns -- The scale of patterns -- Conclusions -- SUMMARY OF RESULTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- 11 Comparing communities -- 12 Large-scale patterns of species richness and species range size in anthropoid primates -- INTRODUCTION -- AN OVERVIEW OF ANTHROPOID DISTRIBUTION IN SOUTH AMERICA AND AFRICA -- PATTERNS OF SPECIES RICHNESS AND RANGE SIZE -- Africa -- South America -- PROCESSES SHAPING BROAD-SCALE AND PATTERNS OF SPECIES RICHNESS AND RANGE SIZE -- Alternative explanations for latitudinal gradients in species richness and range size -- Regional vs. local processes -- Evolutionary and biogeographical history -- The importance of barriers -- ECOLOGICAL AND PHYLOGENETIC DETERMINANTS OF RANGE SIZE -- The frequency distribution of species range size -- Niche breadth and range size -- Abundance, body size and range size -- Phylogenetic relationship and temporal dynamics -- SYNTHESIS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- APPENDIX 12.1 -- Habitat types -- Food types -- REFERENCES |
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13 The recent evolutionary past of primate communities: Likely environmental impacts during the past three millennia -- INTRODUCTION -- CLIMATE CHANGE -- Forest cover -- Phenological patterns -- Impact of past climate change on primates -- HUMAN ACTIVITIES -- Direct impacts of humans on primates -- Competition -- Hunting -- Indirect impacts of humans on primates -- Fire -- Farming -- DISEASE -- NATURAL DISASTERS -- DISCUSSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- 14 Resources and primate community structure -- INTRODUCTION -- PRIMATE DIETS AND THEIR NUTRITIONAL CHARACTERISTICS -- Insects and other animals -- Fruits -- Seeds -- Flowers -- Leaves -- Gums -- Why are primates such generalized feeders? -- Summary: primate dietary niches -- PATTERNS OF RESOURCE AVAILABILITY IN PRIMATE HABITATS -- A brief sketch of tropical forests -- Insects -- Fruits -- Leaf quantity -- Leaf quality -- Covariation in productivity among dietary items -- WHAT RESOURCES LIMIT PRIMATE DENSITIES? -- Minerals -- Food species diversity -- Productivity -- Food quality -- CONCLUSIONS -- APPENDIX 14.1: METHODS AND CAUTIONS FOR SAMPLING THE ABUNDANCE OF PRIMATE DIETARY RESOURCES -- Insects -- Fruit -- Leaves -- REFERENCES -- 15 Effects of subsistence hunting and forest types on the structure of Amazonian primate communities -- INTRODUCTION -- METHODS AND SAMPLING SITES -- Line-transect censuses -- STATISTICAL ANALYSIS -- RESULTS -- Primate abundance, hunting pressure and forest types -- Ordination of primate communities -- DISCUSSION -- Primates as game vertebrates in neotropical forests -- Forest productivity, hunting pressure, and primate abundance -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- 16 Spatial and temporal scales in primate community structure -- LOCAL VS. REGIONAL DETERMINANTS OF PRIMATE COMMUNITY STRUCTURE -- ARE PRIMATE COMMUNITIES AT EQUILIBRIUM, AND DOES IT MATTER? |
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CONCLUSION AND PROSPECTS -- REFERENCES -- 17 Primate communities in Africa: The consequence of long-term evolution or the artifact of recent hunting? -- INTRODUCTION -- KNOWN EXTINCTIONS -- LESS CERTAIN EXTINCTIONS -- POSSIBLE EXTINCTIONS -- DISCUSSION -- Why are red colobus so susceptible to hunting by humans? -- General features of susceptibility to human hunting -- Tribal traditions and hunting of primates -- Forest area and degree of isolation -- Reduction of primate populations -- Selective trends of hunting and forest degradation by humans -- The impact of predation by chimpanzees on primate communities -- Who will go next? -- Concluding remark -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- 18 The future of primate communities: A reflection of the present? -- INTRODUCTION -- PATTERNS OF PRIMATE ENDANGERMENT -- Human pressure and geographic range -- Geographic range and ecology -- Body size -- Circadian rhythm -- Dietary specializations -- Habitat specializations -- And all the other factors -- THE FUTURE OF PRIMATE COMMUNITIES: A REFLECTION OF THE PRESENT? -- Africa -- Asia -- Madagascar -- South America -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- 19 Concluding remarks -- COMMUNITY DIFFERENCES -- EXPLAINING COMMUNITIES -- PRIMATES IN CONTEXT -- PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE -- REFERENCES -- Systematic index -- Subject index |
| Summary |
Primates have been studied more than any other mammalian group, but until now the differences and similarities of primate communities in different parts of the world have not been compared. This book will therefore be a unique source book and text for students and researchers in primatology, anthropology and ecology |
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Print version record |
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Primates.
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Animal communities.
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Primates
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Primates (order)
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Animal communities
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Primates
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Janson, Charles
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Reed, Kaye
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| ISBN |
9780511050282 |
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0511050283 |
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9780511542381 |
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0511542380 |
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9780521620444 |
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0521620449 |
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9780521629676 |
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0521629675 |
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