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Primates in Fragments

Ecology and Conservation

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  1. Laura K. Marsh

    1. Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, USA

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Table of contents (24 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiv
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  2. The Nature of Fragmentation

    • Laura K. Marsh
    Pages 1-10

  3. Genetics and Population Dynamics

    • Laura K. Marsh
    Pages 11-16

  4. Effects of Habitat Fragmentation on the Genetic Variability of Silvery Marmosets, Mico argentatus

    • Evonnildo C. Gonçalves, Stephen F. Ferrari, Artur Silva, Paulo E. G. Coutinho, Elytânia V. Menezes, Maria Paula C. Schneider
    Pages 17-28

  5. Changes in Distribution of the Snub-Nosed Monkey in China

    • Baoguo Li, Zhiyun Jia, Ruliang Pan, Baoping Ren
    Pages 29-51

  6. Analysis of the Hypothetical Population Structure of the Squirrel Monkey (Saimiri oerstedii) in Panamá

    • Ariel R. Rodríguez-Vargas
    Pages 53-62

  7. Primate Survival in Community-Owned Forest Fragments: Are Metapopulation Models Useful Amidst Intensive use?

    • Colin A. Chapman, Michael J. Lawes, Lisa Naughton-Treves, Thomas Gillespie
    Pages 63-78

  8. Relationships between Forest Fragments and Howler Monkeys (Alouatta palliata mexicana) in Southern Veracruz, Mexico

    • Erika M. Rodriguez-Toledo, Salvador Mandujano, Francisco García-Orduña
    Pages 79-97

  9. Primates of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest: The Influence of Forest Fragmentation on Survival

    • Adriano G. Chiarello
    Pages 99-121

  10. Dynamics of Primate Communities along the Santarém-Cuiabá Highway in South-Central Brazilian Amazonia

    • Stephen F. Ferrari, Simone Iwanaga, André L. Ravetta, Francisco C. Freitas, Belmira A. R. Sousa, Luciane L. Souza et al.
    Pages 123-144

  11. Primates and Fragmentation of the Amazon Forest

    • Kellen A. Gilbert
    Pages 145-157

  12. Behavioral Ecology

    • Laura K. Marsh
    Pages 159-162

  13. Impacts of Forest Fragmentation on Lion-Tailed Macaque and Nilgiri Langur in Western Ghats, South India

    • Govindasamy Umapathy, Ajith Kumar
    Pages 163-189

  14. Population Size and Habitat use of Spider Monkeys at Punta Laguna, Mexico

    • Gabriel Ramos-Fernández, Bárbara Ayala-Orozco
    Pages 191-209

  15. Changes in Forest Composition and Potential Feeding Tree Availability on a Small Land-Bridge Island in Lago Guri, Venezuela

    • Marilyn A. Norconk, Brian W. Grafton
    Pages 211-227

  16. Foraging Strategy Changes in an Alouatta palliata mexicana Troop Released on an Island

    • Ernesto Rodríguez-Luna, Laura E. Domínguez-Domínguez, Jorge E. Morales-Mávil, Manuel Martínez-Morales
    Pages 229-250

  17. Dietary Flexibility, Behavioral Plasticity, and Survival in Fragments: Lessons from Translocated Howlers

    • Scott C. Silver, Laura K. Marsh
    Pages 251-265

  18. Howler Monkeys (Alouatta palliata mexicana) as Seed Dispersers of Strangler Figs in Disturbed and Preserved Habitat in Southern Veracruz, México

    • Juan Carlos Serio-Silva, Victor Rico-Gray
    Pages 267-281

  19. How do Howler Monkeys Cope with Habitat Fragmentation?

    • Júlio César Bicca-Marques
    Pages 283-303

  20. Conservation and Management

    • Laura K. Marsh
    Pages 305-307
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About this book

This volume was created initially from a symposium of the same name presented at the International Primatological Society's XVIII Congress in Adelaide. South Australia. 6-12 January 2000. Many of the authors who have contributed to this text could not attend the symposium. so this has become another vehicle for the rapidly growing discipline of Fragmentation Science among primatologists. Fragmentation has quickly become a field separate from general ecology. which underscores the severity of the situation since we as a planet are rapidly losing habitat of all types to human disturbance. Getting ecologists. particularly primatologists. to admit that they study in fragments is not easy. In the field of primatology. one studies many things. but rarely do those things (genetics. behavior. population dynamics) get called out as studies in fragmentation. For some reason "fragmentation primatologists" fear that our work is somehow "not as good" as those who study in continuous habitat. We worry that perhaps our subjects are not demonstrating as robust behaviors as they "should" given fragmented or disturbed habitat conditions. I had a colleague openly state that she did not work in fragmented forests. that she merely studied behavior when it was clear that her study sites. everyone of them. was isolated habitat. Our desire to be just another link in the data chain for wild primates is so strong that it makes us deny what kinds of habitats we are working in. However.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, USA

    Laura K. Marsh

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Primates in Fragments

  • Book Subtitle: Ecology and Conservation

  • Editors: Laura K. Marsh

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-3770-7

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2003

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4757-3772-1Published: 02 May 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4757-3770-7Published: 29 June 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXIV, 404

  • Number of Illustrations: 87 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Anthropology, Ecology, Evolutionary Biology, Zoology

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