Comprehensive and unique volume exploring the differences and similarities between primate communities worldwide.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1. African primate communities: determinants of structure and threats to survival Colin A. Chapman, Annie Gautier-Hion, John F. Oates and Daphne Onderdonk; 2. Biomass and use of resources in South and South-East Asian primate communities A. K. Gupta and David J. Chivers; 3. Species coexistence, distribution and environmental determinants of neotropical primate richness: a community-level zoogeographic analysis Carlos A. Peres and Charles H. Janson; 4. Primate communities: Madagascar Jorg U. Ganzhorn, Patricia C. Wright and Jonah Ratsimbazafy; 5. Primate diversity John G. Fleagle, Charles H. Janson and Kaye E. Reed; 6. Phylogenetic and temporal perspectives on primate ecology John G. Fleagle and Kaye E. Reed; 7. Population density of primates in communities: differences in community structure Kaye E. Reed; 8. Body mass, competition and the structure of primate communities Jorg U. Ganzhorn; 9. Convergence and divergence in primate social systems Peter M. Kappeler; 10. Of mice and monkeys: primates as predictors of mammal community richness Louise H. Emmons; 11. Comparing communities John G. Fleagle, Charles H. Janson and Kaye E. Reed; 12. Large-scale patterns of species richness and species range size in anthropoid primates Harriet A. C. Eeley and Michael J. Lawes; 13. The recent evolutionary past of primate communities: likely environmental impacts during the past three millennia Caroline Tutin and Lee White; 14. Resources and primate community structure Charles H. Janson and Colin Chapman; 15. Effects of subsistence hunting and forest types on the structure of Amazonian primate communities Carlos A. Peres; 16. Spatial and temporal scales in primate community structure John G. Fleagle, Charles H. Janson and Kaye E. Reed; 17. Promate communities in Africa: the consequences of long-term evolution or the artifact of recent hunting Thomas T. Struhsaker; 18. The future of primate communities: a reflection of the present Patricia C. Wright and Jukka Jernvall; 19. Summary and prospects John G. Fleagle, Charles H. Janson and Kaye E. Reed.
