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

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Garber, Paul A. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Estrada, Alejandro (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Bicca-Marques, Júlio César (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Heymann, Eckhard W. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Strier, Karen B. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2009.
• Σειρά: Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects
• Θέματα: 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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Advancing the Study of South American Primates
• Taxonomy, Distribution, Evolution, and Historical Biogeography of South American Primates
• The Diversity of the New World Primates (Platyrrhini): An Annotated Taxonomy
• Paleogeography of the South Atlantic: a Route for Primates and Rodents into the New World?
• Platyrrhine Ecophylogenetics in Space and Time
• Recent Theoretical Advances in Primate Behavior and Ecology
• Demographic and Morphological Perspectives on Life History Evolution and Conservation of New World Monkeys
• Long-Term Field Studies of South American Primates
• Sexual Selection, Female Choice and Mating Systems
• The Reproductive Ecology of South American Primates: Ecological Adaptations in Ovulation and Conception
• Genetic Approaches to the Study of Dispersal and Kinship in New World Primates
• Predation Risk and Antipredator Strategies
• Mechanical and Nutritional Properties of Food as Factors in Platyrrhine Dietary Adaptations
• Neutral and Niche Perspectives and the Role of Primates as Seed Dispersers: A Case Study from Rio Paratari, Brazil
• The Use of Vocal Communication in Keeping the Spatial Cohesion of Groups: Intentionality and Specific Functions
• Primate Cognition: Integrating Social and Ecological Information in Decision-Making
• Conservation and Management of South American Primates
• Impacts of Subsistence Game Hunting on Amazonian Primates
• Primate Densities in the Atlantic Forest of~Southeast Brazil: The Role of Habitat Quality and Anthropogenic Disturbance
• Ecological and Anthropogenic Influences on Patterns of Parasitism in Free-Ranging Primates: A Meta-analysis of the Genus Alouatta
• Primate Conservation in South America: The~Human and Ecological Dimensions of the Problem
• Concluding Chapter
• Comparative Perspectives in the Study of South American Primates: Research Priorities and Conservation Imperatives.