Primates in Fragments

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

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.

• behavior
• ecology
• forest
• genetics
• population dynamics
• primates

• Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, USA

  Laura K. Marsh

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