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South American Primates Comparative Perspectives in the Study of Behavior, Ecology, and Conservation /

South America is home to perhaps the largest and most diversified radiation (some 200 species) of nonhuman primates on Earth. Given the conservation imperative associated with forest destruction and environmental change, and recent increases in the number of primate field studies, the editors of thi...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Garber, Paul A. (Editor), Estrada, Alejandro. (Editor), Bicca-Marques, Jl͠io Cšar. (Editor), Heymann, Eckhard W. (Editor), Strier, Karen B. (Editor)
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2009.
Series:Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects
Subjects:
Life sciences.
Animal behavior.
Ecology.
Zoology.
Life Sciences.
Behavioural Sciences.
Online Access:https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-78705-3
Table of Contents:
  • Overview of South American primate fauna, primate studies and conservation concerns. Systematics and Taxonomy
  • Paleontology and historical biogeography
  • Fossils, patterns and process in the evolution of platyrrhines
  • Maternal investment and life history strategies
  • Allometry, Body Mass, and primate feeding adaptations
  • Long-term field studies of South American primates
  • Sexual Selection, Female Choice and Mating Systems
  • Genetic approaches to the study of kinship and primate dispersal
  • The Reproductive Ecology of New World Primates
  • Primate niche differentiation through sensory ecology
  • Brains and cognition
  • Decision Making in Primates: Integrating social and ecological information
  • The Use of Vocal Communication in Coordinating Group Movements
  • Predation risk and antipredator behaviors
  • Using field and captive studies to understand primate social systems: the case of callitrichids
  • New theories in the study of primate community ecology and niche partitioning
  • Seed Dispersal, Seed Predation, and Seed Waste
  • Chemical and mechanical properties of food as a factor in niche partitioning and dietary adaptation
  • Ecological and anthropogenic influences on patterns of parasitism in free-ranging primates: a meta-analysis of the genus Alouatta
  • Primate conservation in the Atlantic forests of Brazil
  • How life history and ecology affect the success of reintroduction programs
  • Indigenous groups, hunting pressures, and cultural traditions
  • Landscape metrics and GIS techniques for the study of forest fragmentation
  • Agroforestry as a tool for primate conservation
  • Comparative perspectives in the study of South American primates: research priorities and conservation imperatives.

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