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

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Garber, Paul A. (Editor), Estrada, Alejandro (Editor), Bicca-Marques, Júlio César (Editor), Heymann, Eckhard W. (Editor), Strier, Karen B. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2009.
• Series: Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Behavioral sciences.; Ecology.; Zoology.; Life Sciences.; Behavioral Sciences.

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...