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Bicca-Marques, Júlio César

South American Primates

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Table of contents

Part I. Introduction

1. Advancing the Study of South American Primates
Paul A. Garber, Alejandro Estrada

Part II. Taxonomy, Distribution, Evolution, and Historical Biogeography of South American Primates

2. The Diversity of the New World Primates (Platyrrhini): An Annotated Taxonomy
Anthony B. Rylands, Russell A. Mittermeier

3. Paleogeography of the South Atlantic: a Route for Primates and Rodents into the New World?
Felipe Bandoni de Oliveira, Eder Cassola Molina, Gabriel Marroig

4. Platyrrhine Ecophylogenetics in Space and Time
Alfred L. Rosenberger, Marcelo F. Tejedor, Siobhán B. Cooke, Stephen Pekar

Part III. Recent Theoretical Advances in Primate Behavior and Ecology

5. Demographic and Morphological Perspectives on Life History Evolution and Conservation of New World Monkeys
Gregory E. Blomquist, Martin M. Kowalewski, Steven R. Leigh

6. Long-Term Field Studies of South American Primates
Karen B. Strier, Sérgio L. Mendes

7. Sexual Selection, Female Choice and Mating Systems
Patrícia Izar, Anita Stone, Sarah Carnegie, Érica S. Nakai

8. The Reproductive Ecology of South American Primates: Ecological Adaptations in Ovulation and Conception
Toni E. Ziegler, Karen B. Strier, Sarie Belle

9. Genetic Approaches to the Study of Dispersal and Kinship in New World Primates
Anthony Di Fiore

10. Predation Risk and Antipredator Strategies
Stephen F. Ferrari

11. Mechanical and Nutritional Properties of Food as Factors in Platyrrhine Dietary Adaptations
Marilyn A. Norconk, Barth W. Wright, Nancy L. Conklin-Brittain, Christopher J. Vinyard

12. Neutral and Niche Perspectives and the Role of Primates as Seed Dispersers: A Case Study from Rio Paratari, Brazil
Kevina Vulinec, Joanna E. Lambert

13. The Use of Vocal Communication in Keeping the Spatial Cohesion of Groups: Intentionality and Specific Functions
Rogério Grassetto Teixeira da Cunha, Richard W. Byrne

14. Primate Cognition: Integrating Social and Ecological Information in Decision-Making
Paul A. Garber, Júlio César Bicca-Marques, Maria Aparecida de O. Azevedo-Lopes

Part IV. Conservation and Management of South American Primates

15. Impacts of Subsistence Game Hunting on Amazonian Primates
Benoit de Thoisy, Cécile Richard-Hansen, Carlos A. Peres

16. Primate Densities in the Atlantic Forest of~Southeast Brazil: The Role of Habitat Quality and Anthropogenic Disturbance
Naiara Pinto, Jesse Lasky, Rafael Bueno, Timothy H. Keitt, Mauro Galetti

17. Ecological and Anthropogenic Influences on Patterns of Parasitism in Free-Ranging Primates: A Meta-analysis of the Genus Alouatta

Martin M. Kowalewski, Thomas R. Gillespie

18. Primate Conservation in South America: The~Human and Ecological Dimensions of the Problem
Alejandro Estrada

Part V. Concluding Chapter

19. Comparative Perspectives in the Study of South American Primates: Research Priorities and Conservation Imperatives
Alejandro Estrada, Paul A. Garber

Keywords: SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biology / General SCI008000

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Publisher
Springer
Publication year
2009
Language
en
Edition
1
Category
Natural Sciences
Format
Ebook
eISBN (PDF)
9780387787053

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