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Primate Communities
Résumé
Although the behavior 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, behavior 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 behavior.
Sommaire
- African primate communities: Determinants of structure and threats to survival
- Biomass and use of resources in south and south-east Asian primate communities
- Species coexistence, distribution and environmental determinants of neotropical primate richness: A community-level zoogeographic analysis
- Primate communities: Madagascar
- Primate diversity
- Phylogenetic and temporal perspectives on primates ecology
- Population density of primates in communities: Differences in community structure
- Body mass, competition and the structure of primate communities
- Convergence and divergence in primate social systems
- Of mice and monkeys: Primates as predictors of mammal community richness
- Comparing communities
- Large-scale patterns of species richness and species range size in anthropoid primates
- The recent evolutionary past of primate communities: Likely environmental impacts during the past three millennia
- Resources and primate community structure
- Effects of subsistence hunting and forest types on the structure of Amazonian primate communities
- Spatial and temporal scales in primate community structure
- Primate communities in Africa: The consequences of long-term evolution or the artifact of recent hunting? The future of primate communities: A reflection of the present?
Caractéristiques
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Date de parution01/10/1999
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Editeur
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ISBN0-521-62967-5
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EAN9780521629676
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PrésentationBroché
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Nb. de pages329 pages
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Poids0.77 Kg
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Dimensions19,0 cm × 24,6 cm × 1,6 cm
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À propos des auteurs
JOHN G FLEAGLE is Professor of Anatomical Sciences at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He is author of Primate Adaptation and Evolution (1988, 1999), and co-editor of several other books, including The Human Evolution Sourcebook (1993), Anthropoid Origins (1994) and Primate Locomotion: Recent Advances (1998), and is founding editor of Evolutionary Anthropology.
CHARLES JANSON is Professor of Ecology and Evolution at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. His major research interests are the evolutionary ecology of primate social behavior and the evolution of seed dispersal.
KAYE E REED is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Arizona State University, Research Associate at the Institute of Human Origins, and Co-Director of the IHO/University of the Witwatersrand Summer Paleoanthropological Field School. Her primary research interests are in the evolutionary paleoecology of fossil primates and hominids, and the structure and dynamics of mammalian and primate communities. Current paleontological and paleoecological research is focused in Ethiopia and South Africa.