Primate Communities (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Fleagle, J. G.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Although the behaviour and ecology of primates have been more thoroughly studied than that of any other group of mammals, there have been very few attempts to compare the communities of living primates found in different parts of the world. In Primate Communities, an international group of experts compares the composition, behaviour and ecology of primate communities in Africa, Asia, Madagascar and South America. They examine the factors underlying the similarities and differences between these communities, including their phylogenetic history, climate, rainfall, soil type, forest composition, competition with other vertebrates and human activities. As it brings together information about primate communities from around the world for the very first time, it will quickly become an important source book for researchers in anthropology, ecology and conservation, and a readable and informative text for undergraduate and graduate students studying primate ecology, primate conservation or primate behaviour.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Oktober 1999
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511035043
• Artikelnr.: 38198322

Inhaltsangabe

1. African primate communities: determinants of structure and threats to
survival Colin A. Chapman, Annie Gautier-Hion, John F. Oates and Daphne
Onderdonk; 2. Biomass and use of resources in South and South-East Asian
primate communities A. K. Gupta and David J. Chivers; 3. Species
coexistence, distribution and environmental determinants of neotropical
primate richness: a community-level zoogeographic analysis Carlos A. Peres
and Charles H. Janson; 4. Primate communities: Madagascar Jorg U. Ganzhorn,
Patricia C. Wright and Jonah Ratsimbazafy; 5. Primate diversity John G.
Fleagle, Charles H. Janson and Kaye E. Reed; 6. Phylogenetic and temporal
perspectives on primate ecology John G. Fleagle and Kaye E. Reed; 7.
Population density of primates in communities: differences in community
structure Kaye E. Reed; 8. Body mass, competition and the structure of
primate communities Jorg U. Ganzhorn; 9. Convergence and divergence in
primate social systems Peter M. Kappeler; 10. Of mice and monkeys: primates
as predictors of mammal community richness Louise H. Emmons; 11. Comparing
communities John G. Fleagle, Charles H. Janson and Kaye E. Reed; 12.
Large-scale patterns of species richness and species range size in
anthropoid primates Harriet A. C. Eeley and Michael J. Lawes; 13. The
recent evolutionary past of primate communities: likely environmental
impacts during the past three millennia Caroline Tutin and Lee White; 14.
Resources and primate community structure Charles H. Janson and Colin
Chapman; 15. Effects of subsistence hunting and forest types on the
structure of Amazonian primate communities Carlos A. Peres; 16. Spatial and
temporal scales in primate community structure John G. Fleagle, Charles H.
Janson and Kaye E. Reed; 17. Promate communities in Africa: the
consequences of long-term evolution or the artifact of recent hunting
Thomas T. Struhsaker; 18. The future of primate communities: a reflection
of the present Patricia C. Wright and Jukka Jernvall; 19. Summary and
prospects John G. Fleagle, Charles H. Janson and Kaye E. Reed.