South American primates : comparative perspectives in the study of behavior, ecology, and conservation / Paul A. Garber ... [and others], editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Garber, Paul Alan.

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Series:

Developments in primatology

Developments in primatology : progress and prospects

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Primates--South America.

Primates.

New World monkeys.

Primates--Ecology--South America.

Primates--Behavior--South America.

Primates--Conservation--South America.

New World monkeys--Behavior.

New World monkeys--Ecology.

New World monkeys--Conservation.

Primates--Behavior.

Primates--Ecology.

South America.

Physical Description:

xvi, 564 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Springer, [2009]

Summary:

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 this volume have brought together a distinguished set of primatologists, ecologists, evolutionary biologists, and conservation scientists to examine the nature and range of primate responses to changes in their ecological and social environments, and to use data on South American monkeys to develop models to address critical theoretical questions in the study of primate behavior, ecology, and conservation. Chapters in the volume focus on issues of taxonomy, biogeography and evolution, reproduction and fertility, mating systems, demography and life history traits, genetics and kinship, cognition, feeding adaptations, predation, rainforest ecology, the effects of forest fragmentation on ecosystem health and disease, the impact of human hunting on mammalian communities, and competing pressures for land use between the local human population and the remaining primate population.

Contents:

Introduction: Advancing the study of South American primates / Paul A. Garber and Alejandro Estrada

Taxonomy, distribution, evolution, and historical biogeography of South American primates: The diversity of the New World primates (Platyrrhini) : an annotated taxonomy / Anthony B. Rylands and Russell A. Mittermeier

Paleogeography of the South Atlantic : a route for primates and rodents into the New World? / Felipe Bandoni de Oliveira, Eder Cassola Molina, and Gabriel Marroig

Platyrrhine ecophylogenetics in space and time / Alfred L. Rosenberger ... [et al.]

Recent theoretical advances in primate behavior and ecology: Demographic and morphological perspectives on life history evolution and conservation of New World monkeys / Gregory E. Blomquist, Martin M. Kowalewski, and Steven R. Leigh

Long-term field studies of South American primates / Karen B. Strier and Sérgio L. Mendes

Sexual selection, female choice, and mating systems / Patrícia Izar ... [et al.]

The reproductive ecology of South American primates : ecological adaptations in ovulation and conception / Toni E. Ziegler, Karen B. Strier, and Sarie Van Belle

Genetic approaches to the study of dispersal and kinship in New World primates / Anthony Di Fiore

Predation risk and antipredator strategies / Stephen F. Ferrari

Mechanical and nutritional properties of food as factors in platyrrhine dietary adaptations / Marilyn A. Norconk ... [et al.]

Neutral and niche perspectives and the role of primates as seed dispersers : a case study from Rio Paratari, Brazil / Kevina Vulinec and Joanna E. Lambert

The use of vocal communication in keeping the spatial cohesion of groups : intentionality and specific functions / Rogério Grassetto Teixeira da Cunha and Richard W. Byrne

Primate cognition : integrating social and ecological information in decision-making / Paul A. Garber, Júlio César Bicca-Marques, and Maria Aparecida de O. Azevedo-Lopes

Conservation and management of South American primates: Impacts of subsistence game hunting on Amazonian primates / Benoit de Thoisy, Cécile Richard-Hansen, and Carlos A. Peres

Primate densities in the Atlantic forest of southeast Brazil : the role of habitat quality and anthropogenic disturbance / Naiara Pinto ... [et al.]

Ecological and anthropogenic influences on patterns of parasitism in free-ranging primates : a meta-analysis of the genus Alouatta / Martin M. Kowalewski and Thomas R. Gillespie

Primate conservation in South America : the human and ecological dimensions of the problem / Alejandro Estrada

Comparative perspectives in the study of South American primates : research priorities and conservation imperatives / Alejandro Estrada and Paul A. Garber.

Notes:

Erratum sheet inserted.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

9780387787046

0387787046

OCLC:

226280662

Publisher Number:

11848080