UID:
almahu_9948234317402882
Format:
1 online resource (ix, 329 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9780511542381 (ebook)
Content:
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.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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African primate communities: determinants of structure and threats to survival /
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Biomass and use of resources in south and south-east Asian primate communities /
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Species coexistence, distribution and environmental determinants of neotropical primate richness: a community-level zoogeographic analysis /
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Primate communities: Madagascar /
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Primate diversity /
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Phylogenetic and temporal perspectives on primate ecology /
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Population density of primates in communities: differences in community structure /
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Body mass, competition and the structure of primate communities /
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Convergence and divergence in primate social systems /
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Of mice and monkeys: primates as predictors of mammal community richness /
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Comparing commuunities /
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Large-scale patterns of species richness and species range size in anthropoid primates /
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Recent evolutionary past of primate communities: likely environmental impacts during the past three millennia /
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Resources and primate community structure /
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Effects of subsistence hunting and forest types on the structure of Amazonian primate communities /
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Spatial and temporal scales in primate community structure /
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Primate communities in Africa: the consequences of long-term evolution or the artifact of recent hunting? /
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Future of primate communities: a reflection of the present? /
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Concluding remarks /
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9780521620444
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511542381
